India's sewer workers and British school standards 印度下水道工人施工安全，英國在校生學習成績下降

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Safety concerns for Mumbai's sewer workers 孟買下水道工人施工安全隱患

Bad news for some British school pupils 英國在校學生成績落后

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In India it's sewers – they run beneath the streets - and they are an essential part of infrastructure. Keeping them free from blockages is not just a hard and unpleasant job but it can also be dangerous because workers are employed on a day-by-day basis, often without safety gear.

在印度，下水道系統在街道下穿行，是基礎建設的重要組成部分。保持下水系統通暢不僅是一項令人不悅的困難工作，而且還可能很危險，因為這些每天被臨時雇傭的下水工人在工作時通常不會穿戴任何安全裝置。

The children of white British parents do worse in their GCSEs [exams] than those who speak English as a second language. This is according to an education think tank. It's The Centre Forum, which also says many primary school pupils are falling behind the world's leading countries in education such as Finland and Canada.? ?

父母是英國白人的孩子們普通中等教育證書（GCSE，相當于中國的中考）成績不及那些英語是非母語家庭的孩子。這是教育智囊機構中心論壇（The Centre Forum）最新發表的一個報告結果，此報告還說很多英國小學生的學習成績落后于像芬蘭、加拿大等世界教育領先國家的同齡人。

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infrastructure
基礎設施

think tank
智囊團，智囊機構

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infrastructure / think tank

1. Schools should consider flexible working to tackle a teacher supply crisis, a ________ has said ahead of a teachers' conference.

2. The huge storm has destroyed the city's ________ and it will cost millions of dollars to repair.

答案

1. Schools should consider flexible working to tackle a teacher supply crisis, a think tank has said ahead of a teachers' conference.

2. The huge storm has destroyed the city's infrastructure and it will cost millions of dollars to repair.