paraphrase excercise现代大学英语第3册

Study the following sentences carefully and then paraphrase them in English:

Unit One Your College Years

1.… identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited from parents),

shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events. (2)

Who we are is determined by three things: first, our genes, or what our parents have given us, our legacy; second, environment, and third, luck or opportunities.

2.These religious, moral, and ethical values that are set during the college years

often last a lifetime. (7)

These values that are established during the college years often last a lifetime. It is believed that our character or basic moral principles are formulated during this period of time.

3.These are exciting times yet frustrating times. Probably nothing can make students

feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.

It is difficult for a college student to make a clear role of being a man or a woman in the future because they feel excited and confused about their sexual roles. They may feel happy and unhappy, without much hope for the future.

4.Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way

they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with. (5) When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.

5.It may be heightened by their choice to purse a college education. (3)

If they choose to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents.

6.While students are going through an identity crisis, they are becoming

independent from their parents yet are probably still very dependent on them. This independence/dependence struggle is very much part of the later adolescence stage.

They have been away from their parents and become independent, but somehow they can not be completely independent from their parents because they still need their parents to provide the money to support their life and study.

Unit 3 A Dill Pickle

1.She shivered, hearing the boatman's song break out again loud and tragic, and

seeing…

She was very sensitive to art and music and she felt excited as the man was describing the beautiful picture.

2.… although at the time that letter nearly finished my life. I found… and I couldn't

help laughing as I read it.

To write such a break-up letter was very difficult for Vera. The letter reminded them of the heart-broken feeling and it finished both the man and the woman. But he trivialized the letter, and even mocked the letter, which hurt Vera deeply.