1.For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.

　　2.There is another conversation, which from our point of view is equally important, and that has to do not with what is read but with how it is read.

　　3.Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-hearted house-while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.

　　4.The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant.

　　5.But it will be the driver's responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.

　　6.Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all his answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.

　　7.Normally a student must attend a certain number of courses in order to graduate, and each course, which he attends, gives him a credit, which he may count towards a degree.

　　8.It may have been a sharp criticism of the pupil's technical abilities in writing, but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omitted to read the essay, which contained some beautiful expressions of the child's deep feelings.

　　9.A breakthrough in the provision of energy from the sun for the European Economic Community (EEC) could be brought forward by up to two decades, if a modest increase could be provided in the EEC's research effort in this field, according to the senior EEC scientists engaged in experiments in solar energy at EEC's scientific laboratories at Ispra, near Milan.

　　10.Mr.Gretz calculates that solar energy only provided three percent of the EEC's needs; this could still produce a saving of about a billion pounds in the present bill for imported energy each year.

　　句子解析

　　1.對大多數(shù)人來說，海洋是遙遠(yuǎn)的，除了早期飄洋過海旅行的人或靠海謀生的人之外，沒有什么理由詢問有關(guān)海洋的問題，更談不上詢問海洋有什么之類的問題。

　　2.依我們看，還有另一種對話同樣重要，它與所讀的內(nèi)容無關(guān)，而與閱讀的方式有關(guān)。

　　3.每年冬天，上百萬臺冰箱不斷的嗡嗡作響，花費(fèi)很大，在人工制熱的房間里忙碌地維持著一個人工制冷的空間，而在室外，自然免費(fèi)提供理想的溫度。

　　4.冰箱對人類幸福貢獻(xiàn)不多，但他對環(huán)境的影響到是不小。

　　5.但是，駕駛員有責(zé)任讓座在前排的14歲以下的乘客系上某種安全帶，否則不得坐在前排。

　　6.當(dāng)然，如果計算機(jī)得出的全部答案均需復(fù)查一遍，花錢買計算機(jī)就毫無意義。不過人們也應(yīng)該信賴自身內(nèi)部的計算能力，一旦感覺到計算機(jī)得出的結(jié)果有不對之處，就必須進(jìn)行復(fù)查。

　　7.大學(xué)生通常必須修滿一定數(shù)量的課程才能畢業(yè)，每修完一門課就得到相應(yīng)的學(xué)分，累計到一定量便能拿到學(xué)位。

　　8.這種評語可能是對該學(xué)生寫作技巧的嚴(yán)厲批評，但同時也是對那個未曾仔細(xì)閱讀學(xué)生作文的教師令人遺憾的做法的批評，因為作文中包含表達(dá)學(xué)生深刻感情的一些優(yōu)美詞句。

　　9.在米蘭附近的伊斯普拉的歐共體科學(xué)試驗室進(jìn)行太陽能試驗的歐洲經(jīng)濟(jì)共同體資深科學(xué)家認(rèn)為，只要略微增加歐洲經(jīng)濟(jì)共同體在利用太陽能方面的研究經(jīng)費(fèi)，就能使這方面的研究提前20年取得突破。

　　10.格雷茨先生計算得出，即使太陽能只解決歐共體對能源需求的3%，每年也能為其節(jié)約價值約10億英鎊的進(jìn)口能源所需的費(fèi)用。