1. More than half of the home computers sold in the United States in recent years will become essential to home life in the West. Future tasks computers already do at home include:
    近年来在美国售出的家庭电脑有半数以上将成为西方家庭生活的必需品。电脑已经在家庭中发挥的未来功能有：

2. Most students think about cheating at some time. It could be copying someone else's answers; it could even be giving answers to somebody else.
    多数学生曾经想过要作弊。这种作弊可能是抄别人的答案，也甚至可能是把答案告诉别人。

3. Mary Engelbreit was a talented but struggling artist in her mid-twenties when she flew to New York from her native Saint Louis, hoping to find work illustrating children's books — her life's goal.
    二十五六岁时，玛丽·恩格尔布赖特正是一个天分很高、却在苦苦求索的画家。她从家乡圣路易斯飞到纽约，希望找一份为儿童书籍画插图的工作——这是她一生追求的目标。

4. Many of their cultural values and ways of life include practices that return resources to the Earth.
    他们的许多文化价值观念和生活方式都包含向地球归还资源的做法。

5. Most afternoons he threw his line into the Niagara River not far from the post where he had worked all his life.
    大多数日子的下午，他在距自己工作了一辈子的地方不远的尼亚加拉河里钓鱼。

6. Juku defenders say that students are only gaining the discipline and the ability to endure pressure that they will need in life.
    支持课外学校的人说，学生们仅仅是增强了纪律观念，提高了今后生活所需要的承受压力的能力。

7. You will find the city can provide you with the best that life can offer.
    那么你会发出城市可以为你提供生活最美好的东西。

8. Giving her the painful facts concerning her chance to renew herself, I told her I thought the claims of such miracle cures were ridiculous.
    在向她说明岁月无情，要改变现实可能性不大之后，我告诉她我认为这些灵丹妙药所宣传的都很荒谬。

9. Goleman is looking for methods to restore "politeness to our streets and caring in our community life".
    戈尔曼在寻找方法恢复"大街上的彬彬有礼，社区生活中的互相关心"。

10. Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life an execrable test of value.
    然而在生活事务的各方面, 投合是可恶的实用准则.