This reflects one of the drawbacks of the Gaokao.

Students will take the tests twice each year and their highest score will count for the gaokao.

学生每年考两次，取最好成绩计入高考总分。

And do students focused on the Gaokao really want to take time out for activities like Math League?

集中精力高考的学生真能抽出时间来参加像数学大联盟杯赛这样的活动吗？

No one expects the current Gaokao system will change in foreseeable future.

没有人认为目前的高考制度会在可预见的未来能有改变。

Maybe it is my fault for going on about the importance of the Gaokao.

也许是我的错，我把高考看得太重。

Jack Ma turned 18 in 1982 and prepared for the Gaokao.

1982年，18岁的马云为高考备战。

Most incoming freshmen would have been admitted by the time Chinese students take the gaokao test.

大多数即将到来的大一新生会在中国学生高考的时候被录取。

Outside the US, countries including Spain, Italy, Singapore, France and Australia also recognize gaokao scores

在美国以外的国家，包括西班牙，意大利，新加坡，法国，澳大利亚等国家也开始认可高考成绩。

For some Chinese high school students, passing the gaokao is the final goal of their academic life.

对于一些中国高中生而言，高考便是他们学业的终极目标。

Weeks later, when the gaokao results were released, I called Yang.

数周后，高考成绩公布了，我给杨维打了电话。

But it is extremely hard to change the current Gaokao system.

但是，很难改变目前的高考制度。

This wall is made of flint.

这堵墙是用燧石建成的.

In the coldest flint there is hot fire.

冰冷的燧石里有烈火.

We are the sons of flint and pitch.

我们是燧石和沥青的子孙.

At that time they had learned to strike fire from flint.

那时他们已学会了用燧石打火.

Precious water natural resources cannot produce integrated beneficial result, create waste.

宝贵的水资源不能发挥综合效益, 造成浪费.

Only such, the investment beneficial result that just can produce equipment adequately and use benefit.

只有这样, 才能充分发挥设备的投资效益与使用效益.

Strengthening business management foundation to work is those who improve enterprise beneficial result is important assure.

加强企业管理基础工作是提高企业效益的重要保证.

So how to raise agriculture to compare beneficial result. Adopt what approach, what step to take?

那么如何提高农业比较效益. 通过哪些途径, 采取哪些措施 呢 ?

The best union of force and work requirement, can produce first-rate labor beneficial result.

劳动力与劳动条件的最优结合, 可以产生最佳的劳动效益.

The brighter efforts you put into your paper , the more beneficial result you will get.

构思时付出的努力越多, 得到的结果越好.