1．Mrs. Thatcher's government took numerous measures to improve the efficiency of the economy during the past decade using both macroeconomic and microeconomic.
在過去十年，撒切爾政府運用宏觀經濟政策和微觀經濟政策，采取許多措施提高經濟效益。

2．Just as the 1940s decade is remembered in Britain as the era of nationalization. The 1980s will be remembered as the decade of privatization. During past decade almost 40% of the Britain state enterprises were privatized.
正如20世紀40年代在英國以國有化的十年被記住一樣，80年代的十年將以私有化被人們記住，過去十年里幾乎有40％的國有企業被私有化。

3．Compared with many other countries, Britain has considerable reserves of coal. It was the development of Britain's coalfields which led to the Industrial Revolution. Today British coal mining is called a "sick" industry.
和其他許多國家相比，英國煤儲備相當豐富。正是英國煤田的發展引起了工業革命，今天的英國媒業被稱為“生病”工業。

4．Later nature gas was discovered in 1965 and oil in 1970 under the North Sea. Today Britain is not only self-sufficient in oil but also has a surplus for export.
過去天然氣和石油分別在1965年和1970年在北海發現，今天的英國石油不僅能自給自足，還有盈余出口。

5．The Midlands has deposits of coal and iron located near each other. Because of these resource the Midlands became the center of steal industry. But today local supplies have became exhausted ore must be imported from Spain Sweden and elsewhere. The original advantages of the location of many steal works in Britain have gone.
中部地區既有煤儲藏也有鐵礦石儲藏，因此中部地區成為鋼鐵中心。但今天當地儲備已枯竭，礦石必須從西班牙、瑞典和其他地方進口，英國許多鋼鐵廠原先的地理優勢已經一去不返。