It’s a day to celebrate, a time to educate, and a way to make a difference. Earth day was first observed on April 22, 1970. The tradition began in the United States and is now an international focal point for people who are concerned about the environment. Earth day grew out of grassroots action and institutional support. Student leader Denis Hayes and Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson were two key organizers for the first event. Over 20 million concerned citizens rallied for clean air and water. College students were a major force in the campaign, although participants of all ages were involved. Still, we cannot really credit a handful of individuals for the success of Earth Day. After all, a major message of Earth Day is that every single person has an important role in the environment. The four major goals of Earth Day 2000 are clean cars, clean power, clean air, and clean investments.

　　這是一個(gè)值得慶祝、教育、使世界變得有所不同的日子。地球日首先是在1970年4月22日創(chuàng)立的。這個(gè)傳統(tǒng)開始于美國�，F(xiàn)在地球日成為所有關(guān)心環(huán)境人的一個(gè)國際性的關(guān)注點(diǎn)。地球日發(fā)端于草根行動(dòng)及機(jī)構(gòu)支持。學(xué)生領(lǐng)袖丹尼斯。海耶斯和維斯康星州參議員涅爾森是第一個(gè)運(yùn)動(dòng)的關(guān)鍵組織者。超過2000萬的市民集會(huì)要求清潔空氣和水。盡管不同年齡的參與者都參與其中，大學(xué)生是這些運(yùn)動(dòng)的主力軍。但是我們確實(shí)不能只把地球日的成功歸功于一小部分人。畢竟，地球日意味著每一個(gè)人在環(huán)境保護(hù)中都起著重要的作用。2000年，地球日的4個(gè)主要目標(biāo)是清潔的汽車、能源、空氣和清潔的投資。

　　Education plays a very important role in everybody’s life. We go to school because we want to know more about the world around us and at the same time extend our horizons of thinking. The typical classroom used to be the place where teachers and students were working and exploring the wonderful world of knowledge together, but now everything has changed. Technology is taking over those interactions and introducing us to a whole new approach of leaning. The Internet is one of those approaches. Learning via the Internet is a new style that many people believe is more successful than the conventional form of teaching. The Internet allows schools to develop a large amount of learning material that is accessible for students online anytime. There are so many choices of courses and subjects or time frames that completing a program is not an issue for students anymore. We found that online education gives us excellent sources of information, saves our time, money and it is extremely convenient.

　　教育在每個(gè)人的生活中都扮演著一個(gè)非常重要的角色。我們上學(xué)是因?yàn)榱私庵車�的世界，同時(shí)也拓寬自己的視野。過去，傳統(tǒng)的教室常是老師和學(xué)生共同研究和探索美妙的知識世界的場所，但現(xiàn)在，一切都發(fā)生了改變。先進(jìn)的技術(shù)正逐步取代這些交互式的活動(dòng)并給我們帶來一種全新的學(xué)習(xí)方式。國際因特網(wǎng)便是其中的方式之一。通過因特網(wǎng)學(xué)習(xí)是一種新的學(xué)習(xí)方式，許多人認(rèn)為它比傳統(tǒng)的教學(xué)方式更加有效。有了因特網(wǎng)，學(xué)校能夠開發(fā)出大量的學(xué)習(xí)材料以供學(xué)生隨時(shí)從網(wǎng)上獲取。在網(wǎng)上，學(xué)生對各種課程和時(shí)間段有多種選擇。因此，完成一項(xiàng)教育計(jì)劃對學(xué)生而言就不再成為問題了。我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，在線教育為我們提供了絕好的信息資源，節(jié)約了時(shí)間和金錢，而且十分方便。

　　I know many students who took college prep classes all the way through high school and never read a book in an English class. They read Cliff Notes or Monarch Notes (應(yīng)試“秘笈”)， or they copied work from other people who did. But they didn’t cheat just in English classes. They had systems of cheating in every class. Cheating became a way of life. They were always conniving (共謀;串通) and scheming (搞陰謀;策劃)。 I’m not that pure. I’ve tried cheating, but I soon rejected it. I didn’t learn that way, and I lost my self-esteem (自尊)。 I also feared getting caught; and I discovered that most of the time cheating was hard, stressful work. So I never became a master observer of cheaters, because students almost always see more than teachers do. What I learned was that cheaters often put themselves under more stress than honest students.