1. After switching on powerful arc lights, they saw great stalagmites---- some of them over forty feet high ---- rising up like tree-trunks to meet the stalactites suspended from the roof.
    他们打开强力弧光灯，看见一株株巨大的石笋，有的高达40英尺，像树干似地向上长着，与洞顶悬挂下来的钟乳石相接。

2. All these cats had one experience in common: they had fallen off high buildings, yet only eight of them died from shock or injuries.
    所有这些猫有一个共同的经历：它们都曾从高层建筑上摔下来过，但只有其中的8只猫死于震荡或跌伤。

3. At high speeds, falling cats have time to relax.
    在高速下落中，猫有时间放松自己。

4. A school day at Mrs. Cox´s high school is divided into six periods of one hour each.
    科克斯夫人所在的学校，一天六节课，

5. A person who is deaf when he is born, is usually dumb as well.
    一个人在出生时就耳聋的话，一般他也会是个哑巴。

6. About 250 years ago, there was born a boy called John — the tenth child of a poor family in Scotland.
    大约在250年前，苏格兰一个贫苦家庭的第十个孩子——约翰出生了。

7. A daughter was born, who was given the name Kizzy.
    他们生了一个女儿，取名叫吉西。

8. All of them go for the same reasons -- to become fluent in English, complete high school, and understand everything they can about the American way of life.
    他们都是因为同样的原因赴美的——学会流利的英语、完成中学学业以及尽可能了解有关美国生活方式的方方面面。

9. All humans are born into families — and families begin with the joining together of a man and a woman in marriage.
    人都出生在家庭里——而家庭则是一个男人和一个女人以结婚的形式结合而开始的。

10. Apparently, wearing high heels pushes your breasts (胸脯) out by changing your center of gravity (重心).
    虽然，穿高跟鞋可以通过改变人的重心而使乳房突出来。