将下列句子译成中文。
1.Another example is the paper this article is printed on. It started as wood on a tree very far from here. Men and machines made the wood into paper, which had to be packaged and carried by trucks and put into stores. At every step in the process people had to be paid into stores. At every step in the process people had to be paid for their work; money had to be used for buying and repairing the machines, and so on.
参考答案：再举一个例子，就是用来印我们这篇文章的纸。纸起始于很远地方的木材。人使用机器把木材制造成纸，然后纸被包装好并用卡车运输到各个商店。在这个过程中的每个阶段，人们的工作都必须得到报酬；买机器、修机器等等都得花钱。
2.Manufacturers go beyond only telling consumers about their products. They also try to persuade customers to buy the products by creating a desire for it. Due to advertisement, consumers think they want something they actually do not need. 厂家不仅仅想告诉消费者有关商品的信息。他们还试图通过激起消费者购买产品的欲望来劝说消费者购买他们的产品。由于广告的作用，消费者认为他们想要他们实际上并不需要的东西。 3.Our industrial society has turned us into spoiled children. It is this terrible wastefulness that has got us into the mess we are in now. When there are no resources left, we will start to look after what we have. But why can’t we act before this happens? Why can’t we go back to a society in which the prevention of waste is a virtue? 参考答案：今天的工业社会把我们都变成了惯坏乐的孩子。正是这种可怕的浪费使我们陷入了目前的困境。当地球上的资源耗尽时，我们就会珍惜所拥有的东西。但是为什么在这一切发生之前，我们就不能有所作为呢？为什么我们不能回到制止浪费就是美德的社会去呢？
《基础英语》复习资料 (1)
