1. Compared with salesmen who passed the aptitude test but scored high in pessimism, this group made 21 percent more sales in their first year and 57 percent more in their second.
    与另一些通过了能力测试但具有悲观心态的推销员相比，这些人第一年的销售就超出了21%，而第二年更超出了57%。

2. Recently, one research institute found that nearly 4.4 million students were enrolled in some 50,000 to 60,000 jukus. That represents 18.6 percent of elementary school children and 52.2 percent of students in seventh through ninth grades.
    最近，有一家研究机构发现，大约有440万名学生就读于5至6万所课外学校。他们占了所有小学生的18.6%，七至九年级学生的52.2%。

3. Reacting to the announcement, stock market experts Paribas Capital Markets Group issued a "sell" recommendation on Euro Disney stock, saying that attendance levels for the period were 15 percent below its expectations and spending on food a
    对此番话，股票市场行家，帕里巴斯资本市场集团发布了一份"出售" 欧洲迪斯尼股票的建议，指出这一阶段的游客量比预期的低15%，食品及其他商品的消费额比预期的低10%。

4. Over ninety percent of the islanders here are illiterate.
    这儿的岛民百分之九十以上都是文盲。

5. Over ninety percent of the islanders here are illiterate.
    这儿的岛民百分之九十以上都是文盲。

6. 40 percent of Africa is desert country.
    非洲百分之四十的地区位于沙漠地带，

7. One woman's doctor told her she was not at risk for AIDS because she was married and didn't use drugs. Such misinformation plagues the medical establishment. According to the Centers for Disease Control, women will soon make up 80 percent of those di
    一位妇女的医生对她说她不存在染上艾滋病的危险，因为她已经结婚，而且不吸毒。这类错误观念困扰着医疗机构。根据疾病控制中心的预测，女性将占感染艾滋病毒人口的80%。

8. Over that time, it is widely believed, 99 percent of all species have come and gone, while the planet has remained.
    这期间，99%的物种生生死死，唯独地球依然存在，这一点已成共识。

9. Of those who use this information, nearly 20 percent… do not inform their employees that their medical records have been used for such purposes."
    那些利用这种信息的人中，约20%的人……不会告诉雇员他们的医疗档案曾被用于此种目的。

10. Only 1 percent of visitors have been American.
    只有百分之一的游客是美国人。