1. Unfortunately, integrity is in short supply today — and getting scarcer.
    遗憾的是，正直这一品格如今已不多见——而且越来越难寻觅了。

2. Until this time your mother has always been an active, independent person who lived on her own.
    在此之前，你的母亲一直健康活跃，生活自理，独自居住。

3. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida.
    13岁之前我一直住在佛罗里达州的一个黑人小镇伊顿维尔。

4. Once upon a time there were six blind men who lived in a village in India.
    从前, 有六个瞎子住在印度的一个村子里.

5. One woman lived eight miles from town, had a drinking problem and thought she was pregnant.
    有一名妇女住在离城8英里的地方，她酗酒，而且认为自己怀孕了。

6. Last year in another play, she had to wear short socks and a bright, orange-coloured dress.
    去年，在另一出戏里，她穿着短袜和显眼的桔黄色的长裙。

7. They could have caught and lived on prey without using poison,
    它们也可以不用毒液捕捉动物而生存，

8. The graphic record shows three waves arriving one after the other at short intervals.
    曲线记录就能显示出前后相同的这3种地震波。

9. Last year in another play, she had to wear short socks and a bright, orange-coloured dress.
    去年在演另一个剧时，她不得不穿短袜和一件鲜艳的橘红色的衣服。

10. Long, long ago there lived in Greece a king whose name was Midas.
    很久很久以前，希腊有个国王，名叫迈达斯。