4. although this view is wildly held, this is little evidence that education can be obtained at any age and at any place.
尽管这一观点被广泛接受，很少有证据表明教育能够在任何地点、任何年龄进行。
5.no one can deny the fact that a person's education is the most important aspect of his life.
没有人能否认：教育是人生最重要的一方面。


答案：
1. women accounted for less than two percent of the total number of deputies to the national people's congress in 1990 , compared with almost 12 percent in 1998 .
1990年，全国人民代表大会的妇女代表所占比例不到总人数的2%，1998年大约是12%。

2. some 140 major state-owned companies have either declared bankruptcy or entered into mergers during 1998 , up a whopping 75 percent on the total number for the 10-year period between 1985-1995 .
1998年，已经有大约140个大的国有公司宣布破产或被兼并，与1985年到1995年这十年间的总数相比超出75%。

3. china's illiteracy rate has dropped by some 60 percent over the past few years , but nonetheless remains at one of the highest levels for any developing nation .
在过去的几年中，中国的文盲率下降了约60%，但仍是发展中国家中较高的。

4. the steady three-year annual rise in the export rate between 1995-1997 has been followed by steadily failling prices during 1998 and the trend is expected to continue indefinitely .
1995年到1997年，出口率持续稳定增长之后，1998年，价格稳步下跌，预计这一趋势会无限期地持续下去。
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