world’s most persistent social problems."

所有的国家都应该支持发展一所全球性的大学，它的主要目的是要让学生们致力于解决世界上最难缠的社会问题。

Disagree

1. First, participant nations would need to overcome a myriad of administrative and political impediments.

2. A second problem inherent in establishing a global university involves the risk that certain intellectual and research avenues would become officially sanctioned while others of equal or greater potential value would be discouraged, or perhaps even proscribed.

3. A final problem with a global university is that the world’s preeminent intellectual talent might be drawn to the sorts of problems to which the university is charged with solving, while parochial social problem go unsolved.

全球化问题之全球解难大学

世界上很多的小语种都快要消失了，因为越来越少的人在使用这些语言。使用这些小语种的国家应该采取行动以防止这样的语言逐渐销声匿迹。

I agree insofar as a country’s indigenous and distinct languages should not be abandoned and forgotten altogether. At some point, however, I think cultural identity should yield to the more practical considerations of day-to-day life in a global society.

1. On the one hand, the indigenous language of any geographical region is part-and-parcel of the cultural heritage of the region’s natives.

2. Another important reason to prevent the extinction of a language is to preserve the distinct ideas that only that particular language can convey.

3. On the other hand, in today’s high-tech world of satellite communications, global mobility, and especially the Internet, language barriers serve primarily to impede cross-cultural communication, which in turn impedes international commerce and trade.

4. Moreover, language barriers naturally breed misunderstanding, a certain distrust and, as a result, discord and even war among nations.

5. Furthermore, in my view the extinction of all but a few major languages is inexorable--as supported by the fact that the Internet has adopted English as its official language. Thus by intervening to preserve a dying language a government might be deploying its resources to fight a losing battle, rather than to combat more pressing social problems--such as hunger, homelessness, disease and ignorance--that plague nearly every society today.