1. All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.
所有家长都应该主动留出时间来参加孩子的学校活动。
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2. Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
大学应该要求学生至少花一个学期的时间出国学习。
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3. Teachers' salaries should be based on the academic performance of their students.
教师收入的高低应该取决于学生的学术表现。
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84. It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
社会已经不可能把任何一个现存的人视为英雄了。
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4. Some people believe that in order to thrive, a society must put its own overall success before the well-being of its individual citizens. Others believe that the well-being of a society can only be measured by the general welfare of all its people.
有人认为一个社会要发展，必须先取得整体的发展，再去发展社会中的个人。 另外一些人认为一个社会的发展状况只能由所有老百姓的幸福指数决定。
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5. Some people believe that government officials must carry out the will of the people they serve. Others believe that officials should base their decisions on their own judgment.
有人认为政府必须执行人民的意志。另外一些人认为政府应该基于自己的判断行事。
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6. Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.
命题：任何被称为“事实”的信息都应该受到质疑，因为它在未来很可能就会被证明是错误的。
Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
理由：大量被人们认定为“事实”的信息实际上都是不准确的。
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7. Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
命题：当相当数量的市民处于饥饿或失业状态时，政府应该延缓对艺术的资助。
Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs are not being met.
理由：当人们的基本需求没有得到满足的时候用公共资源资助艺术是不恰当的，甚至是残忍的。
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8. Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system.
命题：现代社会的很多问题不能用法律和司法系统来解决。
Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts or minds.
理由：法律不能改变人们内心和大脑深处的东西。
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9. Educators should take students' interests into account when planning the content of the courses they teach.
教育工作者在规划课程内容时应该把学生的兴趣考虑进去。
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10. The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that they have more leisure time.
技术进步的首要目标应该是提高人们的效率以便于每个人都可以享受更多的闲暇时光。
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