Directions: Read the following text carefully and
then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be
written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Nowadays, the Americans frequently read newspaper articles
about violent crimes, see rages of inhumanity on the evening news, and hear
sound bites on the radio describing cruelty and intolerance. (46) We worry,
particularly, about the effects on our children of our own society, a society
that is less safe and less hospitable than the one we experienced as children
growing up during the 1950’s and 1960’s. (47) In many
school districts throughout America, there is already compelling evidence that
adolescents have been affected negatively by changing social conditions,
including by what many American believe to be a decline of basic human
values. Parents and teachers must contend often with adolescent aggression,
profanity, and disrespect. Some students display antagonistic attitudes and
behave inappropriately. Some students are insensitive and unkind to their
classmates, discourteous to adults, and quick to express their anger by raising
their voices or using profanity. It is the responsibility of
parents to teach their children to be polite, courteous, and forbearing. (48)
It is one of parents’ most fundamental responsibilities to impart to their
children the values of integrity, decency, and respect for others; teachers and
school administrators should never become, however, ethical bystanders. If
we wish to realize our educational philosophy not only to educate our students
but also to encourage them to accept the innate worth of every human being, we
must not surrender the ideal of maintaining a moral community at our school,
where all people have an obligation to be polite and tolerant of individual
differences. (49) Some individuals believe that school
personnel should not interfere with the behavior of students unless it is
directly related to learning or affects the safety of individuals who are inside
the school building or somewhere on campus. But good teachers and
administrators do teach values--not personal, private values but common values
of courtesy, mutual respect, persistence, responsibility, and
self-reliance. (50) Ideally, educators affirming
socially-responsible values taught at home by parents and demanding appropriate
vocabulary and good manners from their students should have been valued as
competent and successful educators. They should remind the students of
saying" please" and" thank you" and remind them of not interrupting when others
are speaking. It is very much the responsibility of teachers and administrators
to promote our school’s traditions of proper behavior and good sportsmanship.
Therefore, school educators should be judged by the moral and ethical climate of
their school. All the academic improvements of the school notwithstanding, no
teachers should be considered successful educators unless their students
graduated not only as successful learners but also as ladies and
gentlemen.