汉译英试题训练

请将下面这段话翻译成英文：
1.第三届国际数学和自然科学研究的最后结果揭晓，美国高中的高年级学生排在最后几位。
2.让我们随着这重要的警报声，马上行动。就这样，随着全国的专栏作家和教育家自觉地呼应这条警报，美国教育再次徘徊着进入了危机模式。

翻译及详解

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1.The final results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) has just been released, and America's high school seniors had placed near the back of the pack．
2.Let us act now to heed this important wake-up call.” And so, with editorial writers and educators across the country obligingly sounding the alarm, American education lurched yet again into crisis mode．