51The following is a letter to the editor of the Roseville Gazette.
Despite opposition from some residents of West Roseville, the arguments in favor of merging the townships of Roseville and West Roseville are overwhelming. First, residents in both townships are confused about which authority to contact when they need a service; for example, the police department in Roseville receives many calls from residents of West Roseville. This sort of confusion would be eliminated with the merger. Second, the savings in administrative costs would be enormous, since services would no longer be duplicated: we would have only one fire chief, one tax department, one mayor, and so on. And no jobs in city government would be lost ― employees could simply be reassigned. Most importantly, the merger will undoubtedly attract business investments as it did when the townships of Hamden and North Hamden merged ten years ago.
52The Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day. Yet a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers calls the usefulness of daily homework into question. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week, if at all.
53A recent study suggests that people who are left-handed are more likely to succeed in business than are right-handed people. Researchers studied photographs of 1,000 prominent business executives and found that 21 percent of these executives wrote with their left hand. So the percentage of prominent business executives who are left-handed is almost twice the percentage of people in the general population who are left-handed . Thus, people who are left-handed would be well advised to pursue a career in business, whereas people who are right-handed would be well advised to imitate the business practices exhibited by left-handers.
54The following is a letter from an editor at Liber Publishing Company to the companys president.
In recent years, Liber has unfortunately moved away from its original mission: to publish the works of regional small-town authors instead of those of big-city authors. Just last year, 90 percent of the novels we published were written by authors who maintain a residence in a big city. Although this change must have been intended to increase profits, it has obviously backfired, because Liber is now in serious financial trouble. The only way to address this problem is to return to our original mission. If we return to publishing only the works of regional small-town authors, our financial troubles will soon be resolved.
55Sadly, widespread negative images of businesspeople have been created in large part by television. Consider the fact that, although they make up a mere 10 percent of the characters in dramatic roles on television, businesspeople are responsible for about one-fifth of all the crime on television shows. In fact, in a recent survey of television producers, only 35 percent of the television roles for businesspeople were viewed as positive ones.
56The following appeared as part of a recommendation made by a faculty member to the president of a large university.
Never once in our 150-year history as a university have we clarified our objectives. How, then, can we hope to adapt as an institution to the new challenges facing higher education. As a first step in this evolutionary process, therefore, we should send out questionnaires asking faculty members why they teach, asking students what they want from this university, and asking former students what they gained from their own education here. When the replies come in, we can tabulate them and formulate an official statement of our educational mission. This will surely result in improved programs at our university.
57There is a general idea that a translation always fails to preserve some of the qualities that distinguish the original work ― i.e., that something always gets lost in translation. Writers, critics, and the general reading public unthinkingly accept this clich. But this belief is unwarranted: translators are sometimes distinguished authors themselves, and some authors may even translate their own works. As the translator pointed out in the preface to an English version of Dantes works, the violin and the piano make different sounds, but they can play what is recognizably the same piece of music.
58There is a general idea that waiters and waitresses are more likely to receive larger gratuities from large groups of people. A recent research study suggests this is not true. The researchers examined the relationship between the size of tips in restaurants and the number of meals charged on the bill. They found that, while most tips were around 15 percent, the minimum percentage considered appropriate, people dining alone tipped consistently more and those dining in groups of four or more tipped considerably less than this 15 percent standard. These results strongly suggest that people dining in a group are less likely to feel personally responsible for leaving an adequate or generous tip.
59Statistics collected from dentists indicate that three times more men than women faint while visiting the dentist. This evidence suggests that men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are. Thus, dentists who advertise to attract patients should target the male consumer and emphasize both the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity of their staff to nervous or suffering patients.
60The citizens of Forsythe have adopted healthier lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran, a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the healthiest citizens regularly eat.
51尽管West Roseville的一些居民持反对意见，支持合并Roseville和West Roseville的呼声还是占了上风。首先，两地区的居民经常搞不清在需要服务的时候应该和哪个政府联系;举例来说，Roseville的警署接到过很多West Roseville居民的电话。这种混乱可以通过合并来消除。其次，管理开支将会得到很大节省，因为服务不再重复：我们将只有一个消防局局长，一个税务局，一个市长等等。在市政府的工作并不会失去，雇员可以被重新委任。最重要的是，合并无疑会吸引的商务投资，就像Hamden和North Hamden在十年前合并时所发生的那样。
52 Attra州的教育部建议高中学生应该每天都被布置家庭作业。然而最近一项对于全州的数学和理化高中教师的调查却对每天布置家庭作业的作用提出了疑问。在Sanlee地区，86%的教师报告说他们每周布置3-5次家庭作业，而在Marlee地区，只有少于25%的教师报告说每周布置3-5次作业。而Marlee地区的学生综合成绩更好，而且比起Sanlee的学生更不容易留级。因此，我们高中的所有教师每周布置作业都不应该超过两次。
53最近一项研究发现左撇子比右撇子更可能在商业活动中取得成功。研究者研究了1000名著名商业经理的照片并发现这些经理有21%的人用左手写字。因而左撇子的著名商业经理的比例几乎是总体人群中左撇子比例的两倍。因此，左撇子应该被建议寻求商业方面的职业，而右撇子应该被建议模仿左撇子的商业行为。
54近年来，Liber很不幸地偏离了其原始使命：出版地区性小城镇作家的作品而不是那些大城市作家的作品。就在去年，我们出版的小说中有90%都是由那些在大城市拥有一处住所的作家写的。尽管这一改变的目的一定是为了增加利润，但它显然事与愿违，因为Liber现在正处于严重的财政问题之中。解决这一问题的唯一途径就是回到我们的原始使命。如果我们回复到只出版地区性小城镇作家的作品，我们的财政问题将很快得到解决。
55很不幸的，商业人士广为人知的负面形象很大程度上是由电视造成的。请考虑如下事实：尽管商业人士在电视剧角色中只占10%，他们却占了电视节目中所有犯罪的大约五分之一。实际上，在最近一次对于电视节目制的调查中，电视角色中的商业人士只有35%被看作是正面人物。
56在我们学校150年的历史中，没有一次明确过我们的目标。这样的话我们如何能够成为一个面对高等教育新挑战的学校呢?因此作为进行改革的第一步，我们应该发出调查问卷，问问员工为何从教，问问学生他们想从学校得到什么，并且问问以前的学生他们从本校的教育得到了什么。当我们得到反馈后，我们就可以作出统计并形成教育任务的官方声明。这一定会带来本校教学的提高。
57一种普遍观点认为翻译作品总是不能保留某些原作独特的特征即译作总会丢掉一些东西。作家，评论家和普通读者不加思考地接受了这种陈词滥调。但这种观点是没有依据的：有时翻译者本人就是独特的，有些作家甚至会翻译自己的作品。就像译者在Dante作品的英译版前言中所指出的那样，小提琴和钢琴发出不同的声音，但它们都能演奏同样为人所知的音乐作品。
58一种普遍观点认为服务生更容易从群体就餐者那里得到的小费。最近一项研究表明并不是这样的。研究者调查了餐厅中收到的小费数量与就餐人数的关系。他们发现大多数小费约为15%，这是被认为恰当的最小比例;一个人就餐的小费往往较多而四个或人一起就餐时小费要比15%的标准值少的多。这一结果清楚地表明成群就餐的人较少感到应该留下足够的或慷慨的小费。
59从牙医那里获得的统计数据表明在看牙医时男性昏厥的次数是女性的三倍。这一证据说明男性在接受牙科治疗时比女性更容易感到痛楚。因此，那些做广告来吸引患者的牙医应该定位于男性顾客，并同时强调他们的麻醉技术和他们的职员对于紧张和痛苦患者的敏感度。
60 Forsythe的居民选择了更健康的生活方式。他们对于最近一项调查的回答显示，他们的饮食习惯比十年前更加贴近政府的营养建议。而且，含有kiran的食品销量增长了四倍，在一次科学研究中发现kiran是一种能够减少胆固醇的物质。这种趋势同样也被sulia的销量下降所证实，sulia是那些最健康的居民极少经常食用的食品。
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