高英2课练习答案pubtalk,marrakech

Lesson 1
III.Paraphrase
1.And con versati on is an activity which is found only among huma n bein gs.
2.Con versati on is not for persuad ing others to accept our idea or point of view.
In a conversation we should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument.
3.In fact, a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to
accept his point of view.
4.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends
for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other ' s lives.
5.The con versati on could go on without an ybody knowing who was right or wrong.
6.These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields;
but whe n we sit dow n at the table to eat, we call their meat beef.
7.The new ruli ng class made it difficult for the En glish to accept or absorb the
culture of the rulers.
8.The En glish Ian guage received proper recog niti on and was used by the king once
more.
9.The phrase, the King ' s English, has always been used disparagingly and jokingly
by the lower classes. The worki ng people very ofte n make fun of the proper and
formal la nguage of the educated people.
10.There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a spirit of opposition to the
cultural authority of the ruling class.
11.There is always a great dan ger that we might forget that words are only symbols
and take them for things they are supposed to represe nt.
IV.Practice with Words and Expressi ons
C.（注意：用简单、非比喻性的语言代替比喻部分）
1.No one knows how the con versati on will go as it moves aimlessly and desultorily ______________________ or as it becomes spirited and exciting.
2.It is not a matter of in terest if they are cross or in a bad temper. _____________________________
3.Bar frien ds, although they met each other freque ntly, did not delve into each
other ' s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.
4.Sudde nly a miraculous cha nge in the con versati on took place.
5.The con versati on sudde nly became spirited and exciting. _______________
6.The Elizabetha n writers spread the En glish Ian guage far and wide.
7.I have always had an eager in terest i n diet ion aries.
8.Even the most educated and literate people use non-standard, informal, colloquial
English in their con versati on.
9.Otherwise one will tie up the con versati on and will not let it go on freely. ______
10.Wewould never have talked about Australia, or the Ianguage barrier in the time of the Norma n Conq uest.
Lesson 2
Paraphrase
1.The bury in g-gro und is nothing more tha n a huge piece of wastela nd full of mounds of earth looking
like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.
2.All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals (by not
treating the people in the colonies as human beings).
3.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they
die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they dead.
4.Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round
shape to the chair-legs he is making.
5.Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere, a great number of Jews
rushed out wildly excited, …(all loudly dema nding a cigarette)
6.Every one of these poor Jews looks on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly
afford.
7.However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.
8.If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.
9.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for these trips
would not be interesting).
10.Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. They can produce a little food on the poor soil only
with hard backbreaking toil.
11.She took it for granted that as an old womanshe was the lowest in the community, that she was only fit
for doing heavy work like an animal.
12.People with brown skins are almost invisible.
13.The Senegalese soldiers were wearing second-hand ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their
beautiful, well-built bodies.
14.How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist
rulers
15.Every white man had this thought hidden somewhere in his mind.。