| 11. | There is a growing tendency for parents to ask their children to accept extra educational programs over the recent years. |
| 近些年，父母要求他们的孩子接受额外的教育呈增长的势头。
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| 12. | There is a growing tendency these days for many people who live in rural areas to come into and work in city. This problem has caused wide public concern in most cities all over the world. |
| 农民进城打工正成为增长的趋势，这一问题在世界上大部分城市已引起普遍关注。
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| 13. | Up to the present time, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new tendency placed the home in the immediate suburbs, but concentrated manufacturing activity, business relations, government, and pleasure in the centers of the cities. |
| 到目前为止, 经历了18和19两个世纪, 这种新的倾向是把住宅安排在城市的近郊, 而把生产活动、商业往来、政府部门以及娱乐场所都集中在城市的中心地区。
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| 14. | He has a tendency to forget things. |
| 他容易忘事。
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| 15. | An action must be taken to check this tendency . |
| 必须采取行动来制止这种倾向。
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| 16. | Prices show a rising [falling, receding] tendency . |
| 物价有上升[下跌]的趋势。
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| 17. | There was an upward tendency in oil shares yesterday. |
| 石油股票昨天有上涨的趋势。
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| 18. | The tendency of events is towards peace. |
| 大势趋向和平。
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| 19. | He had a tendency to shrink up whenever attention was focused on him. |
| 每当人们注意他时，他就会因羞怯而畏畏缩缩。
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| 20. | Boys have a stronger tendency to fight than girls. |
| 男孩比女孩好打架。
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