Part A Translation

　　Translate the following into Chinese (25 points):
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　　1. Natural disasters during the 1980s were 94% more frequent than in the 1970s. While it is possible that such a jump falls within normal climatic variation, insurance executives realize that it also conforms with patterns predicted for global warming.
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　　2. The history of New England is written imperishably on the face of a continent. In the Old World national pride feeds itself with the record of battles and conquests; ---battles which proved nothing and settled nothing; conquests which shifted a boundary on the map, and put one ugly head instead of another on the coin which the people paid to the tax-gatherer. But wherever the New-Englander travels among the sturdy commonwealths which have sprung from the seed of the Mayflower. Churches, schools, colleges, tell him where the men of his race have been, or their influence penetrated; and an intelligent freedom is the monument of conquests whose results are not to be measured in the square miles. Next to the fugitives whom Moses (摩西) led out of Egypt, the little ship-load of outcasts who landed at Plymouth two centuries and a half ago are destined to influence the future of the world.
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　　Translate the following into English (15 points):
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　　在學(xué)問上打下堅(jiān)實(shí)的基礎(chǔ)將使你終生受益。在學(xué)習(xí)的初級(jí)階段，學(xué)校所有科目中最重要的是語言和數(shù)學(xué)。語言是閱讀和交流的工具，中文不能，你就不能很好地表達(dá)自己；沒有很好的掌握一門外語，你就會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)很難吸收外國(guó)的新知識(shí)。數(shù)學(xué)能訓(xùn)練人的邏輯思維。其他學(xué)科也各有用處，很難說哪一門更重要。比如，體育和音樂教育對(duì)于促進(jìn)人的智力發(fā)展同樣是重要的。