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Unit 5 : Translation 1) 如果大学生对考试过于投入就可能把能力与奉献放到次要的地位，这样说一点也不过分。(push to the fringes). 有人认为考试是很重要的，但也有人认为考试有不少弊端。所以考试留下了一个未能解决的问题---考试对教育有什么影响？ （open question) 没有挑战就没有反应，没有发展，没有自由。 所以，我们首先应该在我们孩子的能力允许的范围内为他们开设最严格最富有挑战性的课程。Freedom is not only a privilege, it is a test”. These are hard words, but they are brutally true. If we deprive our children of the right to fail we deprive them of their knowledge of the world as it is. 7. The goal of education is not to indoctrinate students, but to set them free in the world of ideas and provide a climate in which ethical and moral choices can be thoughtfully examined, and convictions formed. 8.Dwarfing all other concerns, the mushroom cloud hangs ominously over our world consciousness. These realities and the obligations they impose must be understood by every student. 9.Undergraduates are searching for identity and meaning and, like the rest of us, they are torn by idealism of service on the one hand, and on the other, the temptation to retreat into a world that never rises above self-interest. 10. Man cannot behold except he be committed. He cannot find himself without finding a center beyond himself. The idealism of the undergraduate experience must reflect itself in loyalties that transcend self. key 1.It is not too much to say that if undergraduates excessively devote themselves to examinations, the will push competence and commitment to the fringes. 2.Some people think examinations are second to none, but some think examinations have a lot of disadvantages. Examinations leave us an open essential question --- what influence do examinations exert on education? 3. Without challenge there is no response, no development, no freedom. So first we owe to our children the most demanding, challenging curriculum that is within their capabilities. 4.What we need today are groups of well-informed, caring individuals who band together in the spirit of community to learn from one another, to participate, as citizens, in the