【正文】 —a watershed event in American politics. In cases such as these, therefore, the societal impact of shorting and achievement must be weighed on a casebycase basis. In sum, history informs us that personal failings are often partandparcel of great achievements。 even where they are not, personal shortings of great achievers often make an important societal impact of their own. 12. “Education has bee the main provider of individual opportunity in our society. Just as property and money once were the keys to success, education has now bee the element that most ensures success in life.” “教育已經(jīng)成為我們的社會(huì)里個(gè)人機(jī)會(huì)的主要提供者。就像財(cái)富和金錢一度是成功的關(guān)鍵一樣，教育現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為確保成功的最重要因素?！? 1， 教育是提高一個(gè)素質(zhì)的最好途徑。機(jī)遇只偏愛有準(zhǔn)備的頭腦，教育使人有能力抓住轉(zhuǎn)瞬即釋的機(jī)會(huì) 2， 成功 的定義應(yīng)該是全力投入于自己所喜愛的事業(yè)對社會(huì)有所貢獻(xiàn)從而得到物質(zhì)和精神上的滿足。教育是最主要的為一個(gè)個(gè)體提供掌握一種技能熟悉一門學(xué)科知識(shí)的 provider，從而才可以有所貢獻(xiàn)而得到滿足。 On one hand, there is nothing that can be better than education in providing us with all kinds of knowledge and skills for solving different problems in our respective domains. How can we achieve success without those expertise and techniques? Some one may argue that experience and mon sense are enough for this kind of concern. However, in my opinion, nothing can really substitute education, while it may be true that the abovementioned elements are also important in gaining the knowledge to achieve success. What is more, education can make a person improve morally and purify his or her spirit. In my point of view, morality is also an important element for one’s success, although it is always neglected or overlooked. Dictators, for instance, they are likely to be very intelligent and hardworking people, but they are inferior in ethic. It is obvious that those people can not be considered successful. The best way to make a person moral and respectable is education. It teaches people to tell good from bad。 it helps people to distinguish justice form evil. privilege namp。vt property determine access obtain excellent opportunity candidate 1， Education may be always play an indispensable role in getting successful in life. 因?yàn)椋逃粌H教授 specialized and professional knowledge for future occupation, but also many essential principles and skills in the life, such as insight, virtue and analysis. 這些在高速發(fā)展的當(dāng)今社會(huì)尤其重要。 2， 在過去，教育的也起到 key role 的作用，但是，那時(shí)候只有 property and money can provide the opportunity of receiving education. 所以 privilege and property were the keys to education, and thus to success in ， people have equal opportunity to obtain education. 財(cái)富不再能 Property can no longer possess exclusively the resource of education. 教育成為了決定因素。 3， 現(xiàn)在的工作崗位 employers are more concerned with the real ability of the employees rather than their family fortune and social adequate petition 使 people with higher education background 更容易成功。 Optional words: Ensure/assure/ guarantee Thesis sentence: Money and property has been replaced by education as the main provider of individual opportunity to success. View1: In the past, the wealth people are more likely to be successful because the education is only accessible by them. When bees available to almost everyone, education plays an more and more important role in providing opportunities to success. Evidence: View2:In today?s business world, employer are more likely hire people on the basis of capacity rather than the kinds of traditionally personal connections that are mon among the wealthy. Evidence: ctor offers more opportunities for success in our society: education or money and property? In my view, education has replaced money and property as the main provider of such opportunities today. I base my view on two reasons. First, education—particularly higher education—used to be available only to the wealthy but now is accessible to almost anyone. Second, because of the civilrights movement and resulting laws, businesses are now required to hire on the basis of merit rather than the kinds of personal connections traditionally mon among the wealthy. Education probably always played a key role in determining one’s opportunities for success. But in the past, good postsecondary education was available mainly to the privileged classes. Because money and property largely determined one’s access to higher education, money and property really were the critical factors in opening doors to success. However, higher education is more egalitarian today. Given our vast numbers of state universities and financialaid programs, virtually anyone who meets entrance requirements for college can obtain an excellent college education and open up windows of opportunity in life. Another reason those opportunities will be open to educated young people from middleclass and poorer backgrounds is that hiring is more meritocratic today than ever before. In principle, at least, we have always been a society where all people are equal。 yet in the past, children of the wealthy and the well connected could expect to obtain higherstatus jobs and to receive better pay. But the laws and programs resulting from our civilrights struggles have produced a modern business climate in which jobs are available on an equalopportunity basis, and in which candidates have a legal right to be judged on the merit of their educational background and experience. In conclusion, education is probably the main factor in opening doors to success for young people in our society. The fact that education has supplanted money and property in this role is owing to a more egalitarian system of higher education, as well as to more meritbased hiring practices that generally value individual education over family fortune or connections. 13. “Responsibility for preserving the natural environment ultimately belongs to each individual person, not to government.” “保護(hù)自然環(huán)境的責(zé)任完全屬于每個(gè)個(gè)人，而非政府?！? 1， 個(gè)人往往是按照 自己的利益辦事即使有環(huán)保意愿但和個(gè)人利益沖突或要損失個(gè)人利益時(shí)候往往就會(huì)選擇犧牲環(huán)境 moreover 個(gè)人往往是短視的，只關(guān)注眼前不注意長遠(yuǎn)。政府則相反 2， 環(huán)保常常規(guī)