原题大义是说:government decide to switch its old train (80 milesper hour) to a new one (125 miles per hour), however since the rails can onlysupport maximum of 80 mile per hours, The switch will not decrease the time. (削弱)
这里要削弱的是新车不能在路上减少所用的时间, 所以缩短维修时间是无关的(答案记得只是说maintence time 没说trip中间)。 正确答案应该是 : the train goes through mountain areas where the roadcondition restrict train to travel at maximum speed. 这里是说火车因为路况限制,在大部分地方都无法按最快速度行驶,所用新车(限速125)肯定比旧车(限速80)快。
1. A survey of 100 people claiming that they are non materialistic (中文应该是非物质主义吧。。。),Research found out that these people have lower salary, longer work time, less leisure (记不太清了 反正就是没一般人生活好), however they claim to have better life satisfaction than others. (解释) 不太确定答案 但选的是 这些人想对做survey的人宣传他们的生活方式 所以称自己有更好的life satisfactions