1. When was the People´s Republic of China founded?
    中华人民共和国什么时候建立的？

2. Who are these people?
    这些人是谁?

3. Whatsoever nonsense the newspapers print, some people always believe it.
    无论报纸上刊登什么荒谬的东西, 总会有人相信。

4. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write.
    我们从书籍中可读到5,000年前近东发生的事情，那里的人最早学会了写字。

5. What is needed in the case of noise is a study of large numbers of people living under noisy conditions,
    对于噪音问题，需要对大量生活在噪音中的人进行研究，

6. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigour with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident,
    我们对人总是要衰老的现象并不陌生，多年来就已认识到。生命随着时间流失而丧失活力，人随着年龄的增长而接近死亡，这是不言而喻的，

7. It is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us.
    但要估算别人为我们为所提供的服务的价值却是极其困难的。

8. When I boarded the train, I could not help noticing that a great many local people got on as well.
    上车后，我不禁注意到许多当地人也上了车。

9. Why people are prepared to tolerate a four-hour journey each day for the dubious privilege of living in the country is beyond me.
    人们为什么情愿每天在路上奔波4个小时去换取值得怀疑的乡间的优点，我是无法理解的。

10. Who could have imagined, in the mid 1970s, for example, that by the end of the 20th century, computers would be as common in people´s homes as TV sets?
    举个例子吧，在20世纪70年代中叶又有谁能想得到在20世纪末的时候，家庭用的计算机会像电视机一样普遍?