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历年六级阅读理解逐句翻译 一、There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over-educated, eco-conscious type.没有什么事情比有得癌症的迹象更让父母感到害怕的了，尤其对于受到过度教育、对生态环境敏感的那种人来说。 So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around the nation’s schools singled out those in the smugly（自鸣得意的）green village of Berkeley, Calif., as being among the worst in the country.所以当《 HYPERLINK javascript:; \t _self 今日美国》在近期公布的一份全国范围内的学校周边空气质量调查中，把加州伯克利的绿色环保小镇列为全国最差时，你可以想象到那些自鸣得意的人的反应。 ?The city’s public high school, as well as a number of daycare centers, preschools, elementary and middle schools, fell in the lowest 10%. Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly turned students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory’s worth of heavy metals like manganese, chromium and nickel each day.该市的公立高中以及为数众多的日间看护中心、学前教育机构、小学和中学都在最差的10%之列。我们镇上的工业污染大概把学生置于活体 HYPERLINK javascript:; \t _self 科学实验之中，学生们以等值于实验室的剂量每天吸入锰、镉和镍等重金属。 This in a city that requires school cafeterias to serve organic meals. Great, I thought, organic lunch, toxic campus.这发生在一个要求学校的餐厅提供有机饭菜的城市中。太伟大了，我想，有机午餐，有毒校园。 Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighborhood activists（活跃分子）and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children’s health and over what, if anything, ought to be done.自12月份报告公布以来，市长，社区活跃分子和各种家长---教师联合会都参与到一场关于报告的可信度的激烈斗争中：关于位于小镇西北角上的钢铁铸造厂的罪责、有关孩子们的健康VS工会职责，以及应该去做的事，如果还有事能做的话。 With all sides presenting their own experts armed with conflicting scientific studies, whom should parents believe?每一方都有代表他们的专家，手头上的科学 HYPERLINK javascript:; \t _self 研究结果相互矛盾，父母究竟应该相信谁？ Is there truly a threat here, we asked one another as we dropped off our kids, and if so, how great is it?我们在让孩子下车时会相互询问，这儿是不是真的存在危险？如果真有危险的话，有多大？ ?And how does it compare with the other, seemingly perpetual health