Nowadays, nobody can live in an isolated vacuum and no country can escape from the influence or interference of the selected power pact nations in the world.

当今，没有人能生活在与世隔绝的真空，也没有任何国家能躲过大国势力的影响。

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The Third International Mathematics and Science Study, which tested randomly selected students from 41 countries, found no correlation between whether a country has national standards and how well its students perform.

CNN: Competition, Not Standards