高英.7paraphrase

Directions: Paraphrase the following sentences. Write your paraphrases on the Answer Sheet.

1. The creation of this corporate bond market introduces some pluralism into the world of finance and takes away the monopoly of the banks.

With the appearance of this creative bond market, there are a variety of choices in the world of finance. It also put an end to the monopoly of the banks.

2. The emergent global civilization will face many challenges, but it also holds out the promise of individual human lives richer in meaning and experience than we have ever before imagined possible.

The global civilization begins to develop in the world and will meet with many challenges; however, it also offers the prospect that people would have a more meaningful life than we could have imagined before.

3. We are beyond the point of pretending that one or two or three forms of housing

will fit everyone’s needs

We used to believe that one or two forms of housing will fit everyone’s needs, but now we don’t think so anymore.

4. It is by no means an uncommon occurrence, in an inclement climate, for people to go ill clad in order to appear well dressed.

It is very common that people wear less than necessary in cold or stormy weather in order to look well dressed.

5. In Argen tina, people took to the streets and threw out the “center-left” government of Fernando De la Rua.

In Argentina, people go out of the streets for a protest and refuse to accept the “center-left” government of Fernando De la Rua.

6. And probably at no other point is the sense of shabbiness so keenly felt, as it is if

we fall short of standard set by social usage in this matter of dress.

We have an extremely strong feeling that we wear shabbily if we fail to reach social standard of dressing.

7. …He might j ust have reasonably order a durable suit of clothes …so that his great

grandchildren should cut precisely the same figures in the world…I doubt

whether even one public edifice …should be built of such permanent materials.

There is little possibility for a man to buy durable clothes that would be suitable for his grandchildren to wear even in his own life time. Therefore it is not necessary or sensible to construct a public building for permanent use.

8.. Trade disputes between America and Europe have become as traditional as turkey and pumpkin pie.

Trade disputes between America and Europe have become quite a usual affair just as turkey and pumpkin pie will appear at the table on Thanksgiving Day every year.

9.. We need to work collectively to tackle the problems of conflict and corruption,

boost investment in education and health, spread the benefits of technology and research.

. What we should do is to work together to find out ways to solve the problems of conflict and corruption, to increase the investment in both education and medical care, let the benefits of technology and research shared by all people.

10. We demonstrate against the institution of global capitalism, yes; but we also need

to articulate a vision of fair trade in which environmentalism and economic justice are valued more than short-term economic “efficiency”.

.It is true that we oppose the system of global capitalism, but we also should express our point of fair trade clearly. Under the system of fair trade, environment and economic justice are given more importance than the so-called economic “efficiency” which would not last very long.

11.. …how many pages of doubtful record might we not often spare, for a few stones

left one upon another

we may write books and keep files and documents to record our history, but constructions of stone and marble are much more effective at preserving our heritage and history.

12. The IMF indulged Argentina with money even after the country lost all financial

discipline.

The IMF rescued Argentina in its currency crisis through generous lending even when the country was in financial disorder.

13.The nation has entered a period in which many houses are distinguished less by their lingering similarities than by how they diverge both from one another and from homes of the past.

During this period, American residential houses began to show more differences than similarities in design, style and structure.

14. No one finds difficulty in assenting to the commonplace that the greater part of the expenditure incurred by all classes for apparel is incurred for the sake of respectable appearance rather than for the protect ion of the person.

1t is well acknowledged that people spend money on clothes mostly for having good appearance, rather than protecting themselves.

15. People carry in their minds a picture of what constitutes an “American House“. People have an idea of what makes up an “American House”./In their minds, people know what an “American House”is like.