1.For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.

答案：除了一些洲际旅行者和以大海为生的人，对于大多数人来说，大海是遥远的，没有什么必要提出太多问题，更别说思考大海海底的东西了。

2.The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors, but if his priorities had centred on the child' s ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the presentation would have given the pupil more motivation to seek improvement.

答案：老师注重错误没错，但是如果他更注重孩子的思想的话，他失望的表现会使孩子有提高的动力。

3.It may have been a sharp criticism of the pupil‘s technical abilities in writing， but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omitted to read the essay， which contained some beautiful expressions of the child’s deep feelings.

答案：这可能是对学生在写作中的技术能力的尖锐批评，但也是老师的失败的悲哀反映——忽略了朗读文章，这其中优美的表达可以激发孩子们的深刻感受。

4.At the early attempts，the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths， a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.

答案：在早期的尝试中，光缆铺设失败，不得不取出来维修。这时人们发现上面覆盖有生物，这巅峰了当时科学界认为深海没有生命的理论。

5.He first time that the question “What is at the bottom of the oceans?”had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.

答案：当铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的海底电报光缆的时候，出于商业动机，人们次不得不回答这个问题“海底是什么东西”。

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