1. A.You make a rigid 5-year plan, requiring you to spend each holiday with different members of the family.
    a.你制订了一个严格的五年计划，规定你每个假期都要和不同的亲友一起度过。

2. Despite a per person income of just $220 a year, all of the 300,000 lines Vietnam plans to add annually will be optical fiber with digital switching, rather than cheaper systems that send electrons over copper wires.
    尽管越南人均年收入只有220美元，它计划每年增加的30万条线路将全部为有数字转换的光纤电缆，而不是那些以铜线传送电子信号的廉价系统。

3. Announced Thursday that it would sustain a net financial loss of unpredictable scale in its first financial year.
    该公司星期四称在首个财政年度里公司将继续蒙受难以预料的净亏损。

4. As a rule , our academic year begins early in September.
    我们的学年通常在九月初开始。

5. America produced more cars this year than last year.
    美国今年生产的汽车比去年多.

6. A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow.
    一两年前，一位年轻的英国作家发表了中肯的看法。他说，初稿是才华，以后各稿是艺术。

7. As a reasonable guess, they might, on an average, be 100 light years away.(A light year is the distance which light travels at 186,000 miles per second in one year, namely 6 million million miles.)
    据合理推算，外星人离我们平均距离也有100光年之远（1光年是光以每秒186，000英里的速度在一年内走的距离，即6万亿英里）。

8. Aware of these pitfalls, this year I attempted to keep my resolutions to myself.
    我深知这些问题，于是，今年我对自己的计划要严加保密，

9. An all-night party on New Year´s Eve provided me with a good excuse for not carrying on either of these new resolutions on the first day of the year,
    新年除夕举办的一次通宵晚会，使我理直气壮地在新年头一天免去了这两项任务。

10. As complaints must be made in writing, the Ombudsman receives an average of 1,200 letters a year.
    由于意见均需用书面形式提出，司法特派员每年平均收到1,200封信。