Every Tuesday and Friday evening sees Miss Li，my neighbor and a secretary in a company rush home after a hard day’s work，gulp down her meals and then hurry out to catch the bus for her English class. Miss Li’s case is not unique，and now more and more city adults spend their leisure time trying to improve themselves at school or college.
    There are a number of reasons for people to go back for their education. Some people，like Miss Li，are doing it to acquire another degree or diploma to impress the society. To them more knowledge，or rather，more credentials means more opportunities for better jobs and quicker promotion.
    Other people，especially those who are laid off or out of employment go to vocational school to prepare to return to the job market. They are eager for new skills so that they can be qualified for the jobs in retail trade，administration，education and other service categories to which they are strange because most of them were blue-collar workers in the factory.
    There are also people who come to take such courses as Chinese traditional medicine，painting，calligraphy and photography. As their working weeks decline people begin to have time to fulfill their old dream of their heart’s desire.
    Out of necessity or out of interest，people go back to school for the common goal——to improve themselves，and this boom in adult education，in turn，helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
原文翻譯：
    每個星期二和星期五晚上看到李小姐，一天的辛苦工作后，我的鄰居在一個公司匆忙趕回家，一個秘書，吞下她吃飯然后趕快抓住車上她的英語課。李小姐的情況并不是獨一無二的，現在城市里越來越多的成年人把他們的閑暇時間花在學校里提高自己。
    有一些人回到學校去接受教育，原因。有些人，像李小姐，這樣做是想再取得一個學位或文憑給社會留下深刻印象。給他們更多的知識，或者說，更多的證書意味著更快更好的工作和更多的機會晉升。
    其他人，尤其是那些下崗或失業(yè)去職業(yè)學校準備重返工作崗位。他們迫切想掌握新的技術，使自己能勝任的工作在零售業(yè)，政府，教育和其他服務類別，它們很奇怪，因為他們大多數是工廠的藍領工人。
    也有人來參加這樣的課程作為中國傳統(tǒng)醫(yī)學，繪畫，書法，攝影。由于他們的工作周下降，人們開始有時間去實現他們的夢想他們的心的愿望。出于需要和興趣，人們回到學校的共同的目標——提高自己，這繁榮的成人教育，反過來，有助于提高整個國家的智力水平。