【答案解析】大约10年前，康涅狄格州的一所学校举办了一次活动：艺术活动日，他们问我是否愿意来谈谈职业写作。
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About 10 years ago a school in Connecticut held "a day devoted to the arts," and I was asked if I would come and talk about writing as a vocation.
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【答案解析】20世纪90年代初，在因特网重定信息业局面之前，摩托罗拉曾是美国最成功的技术公司之一。
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In the early 1990s, before the Internet redefined the game, Motorola was among America's most successful technology companies.
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【答案解析】根据美国人口统计局1997年的数字，黑人与白人通婚的有31.1万对，相当于1960年的 6倍。
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 1997 there were 311,000 interracial (Black-White) married couples, more than six times as many as in 1960.
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【答案解析】在一种新的制度下，英国高校将根据邮政编码录取新生，家境较为贫寒的考生将受到优待。
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Universities are to recruit students by post code under a new system in which preferential treatment will be given to applicants from poorer backgrounds.
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【答案解析】电子邮件、电子商务、电子作家、电子图书——说不尽的电子!全世界都处在技术性的单调工作中。
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E-mail, e-commerce, e-authors, e-books… eeeargh! The whole world is on a technological treadmill.