61Humans arrived in the Kaliko Islands about 7,000 years ago, and within 3,000 years most of the large mammal species that had lived in the forests of the Kaliko Islands had become extinct. Yet humans cannot have been a factor in the species' extinctions, because there is no evidence that the humans had any significant contact with the mammals. Further, archaeologists have discovered numerous sites where the bones of fish had been discarded, but they found no such areas containing the bones of large mammals, so the humans cannot have hunted the mammals. Therefore, some climate change or other environmental factor must have caused the species' extinctions.
62The following appeared in a newspaper feature story.
"At the small, nonprofit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patient's stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the nearby city of Megaville, the average patient stay is six days. Also, the cure rate among patients in the Saluda hospital is about twice that of the Megaville hospital. The Saluda hospital has more employees per patient than the hospital in Megaville, and there are few complaints about service at the local hospital. Such data indicate that treatment in smaller, nonprofit hospitals is more economical and of better quality than treatment in larger, for-profit hospitals."
63The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a farming publication.
"With continuing publicity about the need for healthful diets, and with new research about the harmful effects of eating too much sugar, nationwide demand for sugar will no doubt decline. Therefore, farmers in our state should use the land on which they currently grow sugar cane to grow peanuts, a food that is rich in protein and low in sugar. Farmers in the neighboring country of Palin greatly increased their production of peanuts last year, and their total revenues from that crop were quite high."
64The following appeared in a recommendation from the president of Amburg's Chamber of Commerce.
"Last October the city of Belleville installed high intensity lighting in its central business district, and vandalism there declined almost immediately. The city of Amburg has recently begun police patrols on bicycles in its business district but the rate of vandalism there remains constant. Since high intensity lighting is apparently the most effective way to combat crime, we should install such lighting throughout Amburg. By reducing crime in this way, we can revitalize the declining neighborhoods in our city."
65The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Parkville Daily Newspaper.
"Throughout the country last year, as more and more children below the age of nine participated in youth-league softball and soccer, over 80,000 of these young players suffered injuries. When interviewed for a recent study, youth-league softball players in several major cities also reported psychological pressure from coaches and parents to win games. Furthermore, education experts say that long practice sessions for these sports take away time that could be used for academic activities. Since the disadvantages apparently outweigh any advantages, we in Parkville should discontinue organized athletic competition for children under nine."
66It is known that in recent years, industrial pollution has caused the Earth's ozone layer to thin, allowing an increase in the amount of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the Earth's surface. At the same time, scientists have discovered, the population of a species of salamander that lays its eggs in mountain lakes has declined. Since ultraviolet radiation is known to be damaging to delicate tissues and since salamander eggs have no protective shells, it must be the case that the increase in ultraviolet radiation has damaged many salamander eggs and prevented them from hatching. This process will no doubt cause population declines in other species, just as it has in the salamander species.
67The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company.
"Several recent surveys indicate that homeowners are increasingly eager to conserve energy and manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy-efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, we anticipate that the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase, and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past 20 years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants should not be necessary."
68The following recommendation was made by the Human Resources Manager to the board of directors of the Fancy Toy Company.
"In the last three quarters of this year, under the leadership of our president, Pat Salvo, our profits have fallen considerably. Thus, we should ask for her resignation in return for a generous severance package. In Pat's place, we should appoint Rosa Winnings. Rosa is currently president of Starlight Jewelry, a company whose profits have increased dramatically over the past several years. Although we will have to pay Rosa twice the salary that Pat has been receiving, it will be well worth it because we can soon expect our profits to increase considerably."
69The following is a letter to the editor of a news magazine.
"Clearly, the successful use of robots on missions to explore outer space in the past 20 years demonstrates that robots could be increasingly used to perform factory work more effectively, efficiently, and profitably than human factory workers. The use of robots in factories would offer several advantages. First, robots never get sick, so absenteeism would be reduced. Second, robots do not make mistakes, so factories would increase their output. Finally, the use of robots would also improve the morale of factory workers, since factory work can be so boring that many workers would be glad to shift to more interesting kinds of tasks."
70The following appeared in a memorandum to faculty from the academic vice president of Waymarsh University.
"So that we can better accomplish Waymarsh University's academic goals, we should adopt the job-opportunity (job-op) program offered at Plateau Technical College and strongly encourage all students at Waymarsh to participate in it. The success of the job-op program at Plateau is evident: Over the past two years, more than 75% of the freshmen at Plateau have enrolled in the optional job-op program. Moreover, at Plateau, the grades of job-op students are consistently higher than those of other students, 90% of the job-op students receive job offers within a month after their graduation, and most former job-op students report much success in their careers."
71在過去，Patriot汽車的車型已經(jīng)過時了，我們的汽車沒有競爭對手的車賣的好。但現(xiàn)在，由于我國很多地區(qū)的新駕駛員數(shù)量飛速增加，我們可以通過向這一日漸增長的人群出售車輛來增加我們的市場份額。因此，我們應(yīng)該停止生產(chǎn)老的型號而集中力量生產(chǎn)新穎的汽車。我們也可以通過把我們的廣告交給Youth廣告公司來促進(jìn)市場推廣的成功，這家公司曾經(jīng)為本國銷量大的軟飲料進(jìn)行過成功的促銷。
72由于利潤下降，我們必須壓縮Armchair Video十家錄像租賃店的營業(yè)開支。漲價并不是一個好選擇，因?yàn)槲覀兙褪且蛱貎r銷售而知名的。因此我們應(yīng)該縮短營業(yè)時間。上個月我們位于鬧市區(qū)Marston的店?duì)I業(yè)時間從以前的9點(diǎn)縮減到下午6點(diǎn)，并通過不再保留發(fā)行兩年以上的電影來減少總庫存量。由于我們所收到的客戶關(guān)于這些新政策的投訴很少，我們應(yīng)該在所有Armchair Video的商店實(shí)施這些政策作為增加利潤的好策略。
73在Treehaven地區(qū)的每個城市，政府用于公立學(xué)校教育的開支大部分都是從各市政府征收的稅收而來的。然而，該地區(qū)不同城市對公共教育的重視程度是不同的。舉例而言，Parson市用于公立學(xué)校的預(yù)算通常是Blue市的兩倍，盡管兩城市居民數(shù)量基本相同。因此，Parson市的居民顯然比Blue市居民更關(guān)注公立學(xué)校教育。
74在去年嚴(yán)重的干旱中，當(dāng)Grandview市水庫的儲水量降至極低水平時，市委發(fā)布了更加嚴(yán)格的供水配額條例。但就在這些條例實(shí)施以后，該地區(qū)的工業(yè)增長減緩了。這顯然表明新的供水配額條例對Grandview的工業(yè)造成了破壞。因此，為促進(jìn)當(dāng)?shù)亟?jīng)濟(jì)健康發(fā)展，市委現(xiàn)在應(yīng)該停止供水配額。
75由于Clearview的天然景色和溫和氣候，它應(yīng)該成為那些為退休后尋找生活地的人的首選。其中一項(xiàng)好處是，Clearview的房價在去年顯著下降，房地產(chǎn)稅一直比鄰近城市低。而且，Clearview的市長了很多新方案來改善學(xué)校、街道和公共服務(wù)。Clearview的退休人員也可以在老年時享受到出色的醫(yī)療服務(wù)，因?yàn)樵摰貐^(qū)的醫(yī)生數(shù)量高于全國平均水平。
76現(xiàn)在是投資于力量舉重體育館特許權(quán)的良好時機(jī)從而你可以在你們城市開設(shè)一家體育館，從中贏利?？紤]一下當(dāng)前的潮流：力量舉重體育館已經(jīng)在500個地點(diǎn)的消費(fèi)者中相當(dāng)流行，全國調(diào)查表明對于減肥和健身的關(guān)注越來越多。而且，去年關(guān)于個人健康的書籍和雜志銷售總額超過了5千萬美元，家庭健身器具的購買量幾乎翻了一番?，F(xiàn)在投力量舉重體育館特許權(quán)將保證快速致富。
77去年，我們Fierce Fighter玩具飛機(jī)的銷量銳減，盡管該玩具連續(xù)三年都非常暢銷。我們的消費(fèi)者調(diào)查顯示，家長對于青少年暴力越來越擔(dān)憂，并且關(guān)注他們的孩子是否能得到更好的教育。因此，為繼續(xù)盈利我們應(yīng)該停止生產(chǎn)所有的動作玩具并專門生產(chǎn)一系列新的教育玩具。若干其他玩具公司已經(jīng)開始推廣教育玩具并且報(bào)告說去年的銷量增長了200%。由于平均家庭收入正在上漲，新的Hyper-Go玩具銷量也會上升。
78在連續(xù)三年中，我國家庭平均收入顯著上升。這種繁榮意味著家庭可能會花更多的時間和金錢于休閑活動。因此Megamart商店應(yīng)該致力于擴(kuò)大和推廣通常用于休閑活動的商品：包括運(yùn)動和戶外裝備，電視，美食烹調(diào)設(shè)備，箱包和旅行用具。
79近研究顯示當(dāng)描述日常對話的時候，人們平均有23次提到看電視而只有提到讀小說。這一結(jié)果說明與電視行業(yè)相比，出版和書籍銷售行業(yè)的贏利能力可能會下降。因此，想要以作家為職業(yè)的人應(yīng)該接受為電視而不是為印刷媒體寫作的訓(xùn)練和經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
80在近的調(diào)查中，學(xué)習(xí)初級俄語的學(xué)生給予非俄國教師所教的課的評價要高于給予俄國教師所教的課。非俄國人作為俄語教師更加優(yōu)秀的原因是顯而易見的：非俄國人在長大以后自己學(xué)習(xí)俄語，因此他們對于這種語言如何教授將更加有效有著更深刻的理解。因此，為提高所有語言課程的質(zhì)量并節(jié)省開支，我們大學(xué)應(yīng)該雇傭非本國人來擔(dān)任語言教師而不是試圖尋找和雇傭本國人。
62The following appeared in a newspaper feature story.
"At the small, nonprofit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patient's stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the nearby city of Megaville, the average patient stay is six days. Also, the cure rate among patients in the Saluda hospital is about twice that of the Megaville hospital. The Saluda hospital has more employees per patient than the hospital in Megaville, and there are few complaints about service at the local hospital. Such data indicate that treatment in smaller, nonprofit hospitals is more economical and of better quality than treatment in larger, for-profit hospitals."
63The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a farming publication.
"With continuing publicity about the need for healthful diets, and with new research about the harmful effects of eating too much sugar, nationwide demand for sugar will no doubt decline. Therefore, farmers in our state should use the land on which they currently grow sugar cane to grow peanuts, a food that is rich in protein and low in sugar. Farmers in the neighboring country of Palin greatly increased their production of peanuts last year, and their total revenues from that crop were quite high."
64The following appeared in a recommendation from the president of Amburg's Chamber of Commerce.
"Last October the city of Belleville installed high intensity lighting in its central business district, and vandalism there declined almost immediately. The city of Amburg has recently begun police patrols on bicycles in its business district but the rate of vandalism there remains constant. Since high intensity lighting is apparently the most effective way to combat crime, we should install such lighting throughout Amburg. By reducing crime in this way, we can revitalize the declining neighborhoods in our city."
65The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Parkville Daily Newspaper.
"Throughout the country last year, as more and more children below the age of nine participated in youth-league softball and soccer, over 80,000 of these young players suffered injuries. When interviewed for a recent study, youth-league softball players in several major cities also reported psychological pressure from coaches and parents to win games. Furthermore, education experts say that long practice sessions for these sports take away time that could be used for academic activities. Since the disadvantages apparently outweigh any advantages, we in Parkville should discontinue organized athletic competition for children under nine."
66It is known that in recent years, industrial pollution has caused the Earth's ozone layer to thin, allowing an increase in the amount of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the Earth's surface. At the same time, scientists have discovered, the population of a species of salamander that lays its eggs in mountain lakes has declined. Since ultraviolet radiation is known to be damaging to delicate tissues and since salamander eggs have no protective shells, it must be the case that the increase in ultraviolet radiation has damaged many salamander eggs and prevented them from hatching. This process will no doubt cause population declines in other species, just as it has in the salamander species.
67The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company.
"Several recent surveys indicate that homeowners are increasingly eager to conserve energy and manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy-efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, we anticipate that the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase, and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past 20 years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants should not be necessary."
68The following recommendation was made by the Human Resources Manager to the board of directors of the Fancy Toy Company.
"In the last three quarters of this year, under the leadership of our president, Pat Salvo, our profits have fallen considerably. Thus, we should ask for her resignation in return for a generous severance package. In Pat's place, we should appoint Rosa Winnings. Rosa is currently president of Starlight Jewelry, a company whose profits have increased dramatically over the past several years. Although we will have to pay Rosa twice the salary that Pat has been receiving, it will be well worth it because we can soon expect our profits to increase considerably."
69The following is a letter to the editor of a news magazine.
"Clearly, the successful use of robots on missions to explore outer space in the past 20 years demonstrates that robots could be increasingly used to perform factory work more effectively, efficiently, and profitably than human factory workers. The use of robots in factories would offer several advantages. First, robots never get sick, so absenteeism would be reduced. Second, robots do not make mistakes, so factories would increase their output. Finally, the use of robots would also improve the morale of factory workers, since factory work can be so boring that many workers would be glad to shift to more interesting kinds of tasks."
70The following appeared in a memorandum to faculty from the academic vice president of Waymarsh University.
"So that we can better accomplish Waymarsh University's academic goals, we should adopt the job-opportunity (job-op) program offered at Plateau Technical College and strongly encourage all students at Waymarsh to participate in it. The success of the job-op program at Plateau is evident: Over the past two years, more than 75% of the freshmen at Plateau have enrolled in the optional job-op program. Moreover, at Plateau, the grades of job-op students are consistently higher than those of other students, 90% of the job-op students receive job offers within a month after their graduation, and most former job-op students report much success in their careers."
71在過去，Patriot汽車的車型已經(jīng)過時了，我們的汽車沒有競爭對手的車賣的好。但現(xiàn)在，由于我國很多地區(qū)的新駕駛員數(shù)量飛速增加，我們可以通過向這一日漸增長的人群出售車輛來增加我們的市場份額。因此，我們應(yīng)該停止生產(chǎn)老的型號而集中力量生產(chǎn)新穎的汽車。我們也可以通過把我們的廣告交給Youth廣告公司來促進(jìn)市場推廣的成功，這家公司曾經(jīng)為本國銷量大的軟飲料進(jìn)行過成功的促銷。
72由于利潤下降，我們必須壓縮Armchair Video十家錄像租賃店的營業(yè)開支。漲價并不是一個好選擇，因?yàn)槲覀兙褪且蛱貎r銷售而知名的。因此我們應(yīng)該縮短營業(yè)時間。上個月我們位于鬧市區(qū)Marston的店?duì)I業(yè)時間從以前的9點(diǎn)縮減到下午6點(diǎn)，并通過不再保留發(fā)行兩年以上的電影來減少總庫存量。由于我們所收到的客戶關(guān)于這些新政策的投訴很少，我們應(yīng)該在所有Armchair Video的商店實(shí)施這些政策作為增加利潤的好策略。
73在Treehaven地區(qū)的每個城市，政府用于公立學(xué)校教育的開支大部分都是從各市政府征收的稅收而來的。然而，該地區(qū)不同城市對公共教育的重視程度是不同的。舉例而言，Parson市用于公立學(xué)校的預(yù)算通常是Blue市的兩倍，盡管兩城市居民數(shù)量基本相同。因此，Parson市的居民顯然比Blue市居民更關(guān)注公立學(xué)校教育。
74在去年嚴(yán)重的干旱中，當(dāng)Grandview市水庫的儲水量降至極低水平時，市委發(fā)布了更加嚴(yán)格的供水配額條例。但就在這些條例實(shí)施以后，該地區(qū)的工業(yè)增長減緩了。這顯然表明新的供水配額條例對Grandview的工業(yè)造成了破壞。因此，為促進(jìn)當(dāng)?shù)亟?jīng)濟(jì)健康發(fā)展，市委現(xiàn)在應(yīng)該停止供水配額。
75由于Clearview的天然景色和溫和氣候，它應(yīng)該成為那些為退休后尋找生活地的人的首選。其中一項(xiàng)好處是，Clearview的房價在去年顯著下降，房地產(chǎn)稅一直比鄰近城市低。而且，Clearview的市長了很多新方案來改善學(xué)校、街道和公共服務(wù)。Clearview的退休人員也可以在老年時享受到出色的醫(yī)療服務(wù)，因?yàn)樵摰貐^(qū)的醫(yī)生數(shù)量高于全國平均水平。
76現(xiàn)在是投資于力量舉重體育館特許權(quán)的良好時機(jī)從而你可以在你們城市開設(shè)一家體育館，從中贏利?？紤]一下當(dāng)前的潮流：力量舉重體育館已經(jīng)在500個地點(diǎn)的消費(fèi)者中相當(dāng)流行，全國調(diào)查表明對于減肥和健身的關(guān)注越來越多。而且，去年關(guān)于個人健康的書籍和雜志銷售總額超過了5千萬美元，家庭健身器具的購買量幾乎翻了一番?，F(xiàn)在投力量舉重體育館特許權(quán)將保證快速致富。
77去年，我們Fierce Fighter玩具飛機(jī)的銷量銳減，盡管該玩具連續(xù)三年都非常暢銷。我們的消費(fèi)者調(diào)查顯示，家長對于青少年暴力越來越擔(dān)憂，并且關(guān)注他們的孩子是否能得到更好的教育。因此，為繼續(xù)盈利我們應(yīng)該停止生產(chǎn)所有的動作玩具并專門生產(chǎn)一系列新的教育玩具。若干其他玩具公司已經(jīng)開始推廣教育玩具并且報(bào)告說去年的銷量增長了200%。由于平均家庭收入正在上漲，新的Hyper-Go玩具銷量也會上升。
78在連續(xù)三年中，我國家庭平均收入顯著上升。這種繁榮意味著家庭可能會花更多的時間和金錢于休閑活動。因此Megamart商店應(yīng)該致力于擴(kuò)大和推廣通常用于休閑活動的商品：包括運(yùn)動和戶外裝備，電視，美食烹調(diào)設(shè)備，箱包和旅行用具。
79近研究顯示當(dāng)描述日常對話的時候，人們平均有23次提到看電視而只有提到讀小說。這一結(jié)果說明與電視行業(yè)相比，出版和書籍銷售行業(yè)的贏利能力可能會下降。因此，想要以作家為職業(yè)的人應(yīng)該接受為電視而不是為印刷媒體寫作的訓(xùn)練和經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
80在近的調(diào)查中，學(xué)習(xí)初級俄語的學(xué)生給予非俄國教師所教的課的評價要高于給予俄國教師所教的課。非俄國人作為俄語教師更加優(yōu)秀的原因是顯而易見的：非俄國人在長大以后自己學(xué)習(xí)俄語，因此他們對于這種語言如何教授將更加有效有著更深刻的理解。因此，為提高所有語言課程的質(zhì)量并節(jié)省開支，我們大學(xué)應(yīng)該雇傭非本國人來擔(dān)任語言教師而不是試圖尋找和雇傭本國人。