1. ´Last year, we paid $1.5m on 21,000 claims.
    "去年，我们对21，000 起索赔要求支付了150万英镑。"

2. ´Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year?´ I asked. ´No,´ she answered.´
    "您今年去国外度假吗？"我又问。"不，"她回答。

3. A lot of cars entered for this race last year and there was a great deal of excitement just before it began.
    去年有很多汽车参加了这项比赛。比赛开始之前，人们异常激动。

4. A Festival for the Dead is held once a year in Japan.
    日本每年过一次"亡灵节"。

5. A year ago, although I was interested in the language, I wasn´t clear about its usefulness.
    一年前，我对英语产生了兴趣，但并不明白它的价值。

6. A year´s study has taught me that we cannot learn English well without watching out for idiomatic ways of saying things.
    通过一年的学习，我认识到，要想学好英语就得注意习惯表达法。

7. And what month of the year?
    现在是几月？

8. And months do not fit evenly into years either, since the moon travels round the earth between 12 and 13 times in a year.
    月份也无法平均分配到年中，因为月亮一年中要围绕地球转12次到13次。

9. Again, even if it can be divided by 100, it remains a leap year if it can be divided by 400.
    但即使它能被100除，如果还能被400除尽那么仍然是闰年。

10. At the end of the year they turned to Spain.
    年末他们转向前往西班牙。