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第一课1、Most houses and commercial structures that were constructed after 1980, when Japan’s building code had its last major revision, are still standing.日本最近一次对其建筑规范进行重大修订是在1980年，之后的大部分房屋和商业建筑至今仍完好无损。2、Charles Scawthorn, vice president of EQE International, a San Francisco firm that specializes in quake-resistant engineering, says that ”This is the real heart of the seismic-hazard problem. ”国际EQE的副总裁，San Francisco 公司的抗震工程师Charles Scawthorn说：“这（改进现在的建筑结构）就是地震危害的核心问题。”3、What he saw convinced him that relatively simple precaution could have prevented the most common form of damage: the roofs and upper stories of buildings crashing down onto lower floors.看到的使他相信那些相对简单的预防措施应该能够防止最常见的毁害：房顶和上层倒塌在下面的地板上。第二课1、Not since the first decades of the twentieth century have so many people entered the United Sates.从20 世纪的开始10年，才开始有那么多的移民进入美国。2、But they are by no means alone.说西班牙语的这些人并不会因为在美国没有说英语而觉得被孤立起来(因为那里还有很多如中国、韩国和俄罗斯等国家的人也不说英语)3、They argue that immigrants speaking poor English are cut off from the mainstream Americas economy, and are thus doomed to depend on the largesse of the state.他们认为那些英语说得糟糕的移民会和主流的美国经济脱钩，而注定要靠政府的慷慨救济而生活。4、Opponents of English as an official language say that bilingual education is a more realistic, long-term solution for helping foreign-born Americans assimilate.不赞成将英语作为官方语言的反对者说，双语教育对于帮助外籍美国人融入本土是一种更为现实长效的方案。第三课1、Gangster movies of the old type often featured menacing threats of a “one-way ride”.从前的黑帮影片通常会有“死路一条”的威胁恐吓。2、The young adult is still relatively free from life-threatening diseases, although no age level is completely immune.虽然任何年龄段的人都不能完全免疫致命的疾病，不过，年轻人还是相对而言易于避免一些。3、It may be important to add that the motor vehicle death rate begins to decline markedly after this peak between ages twenty to twenty-four.也许值得补充的是，对于年龄在二十到二十四岁之间的人来说，因机动车而死亡的人数达到峰值，在这年龄段之后，这一死亡率便会急剧下降。4、A person, in other words, may be accident prone in certain respects and for a certain, limited part of his or her lifespan.换句话说，一个人在某些方面，在人生的某段限定的时间，也许会有＂易出事故的倾向＂。5、Whatever the rea