现代大学英语精读3 课文 Paraphrase
现代大学英语精读3第二版Unit4_Book3
a life by choice, out of principle → natural, healthy, independent
a life as slaves of their possessions → artificial, anxious, loss of virtue
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Diogenes and Alexander
Unit 4
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Other people: half-men
Diogenes: the beggar (paras. 1-3)
Warming up
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Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances: only so can you live a free life. (para. 4) His life’s aim was clear to him: it was “to restamp the currency”: to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false conventional markings, and to imprint it with its true values. (para. 5)
2. Writing: comparison and contrast • Diogenes—Alexander • Diogenes—other beggars/hermits/philosophers • Alexander—other Macedonians (officers & officials) Here, the alternating comparison/contrast (subject by subject) is used.
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大学英语精读3的Paraphrase㈡ 1. Y et, there was always in me…… somewhere else.P However, I always felt that I should pay a visit to some other places.2. I wandered the world through books.P I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.3.One poem committed to memory……in my mind.P I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.4.Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.P Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.5.Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy.P Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.6.by the lure of what……normal childhood.P by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age 7.But the best part of me……and bring them to life.P But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memory was always at home……8.In books I have traveled……but into my own.P While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.9.There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.P Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might be a newcomer, but was never a stranger. 10. My real, true world. My perfect island.P To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.11.…as though she was starving and the book was bread.P Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food. 12.Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion.P Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.13. and come outside …… in their separateness.P and come into contact with the reality, who think themselves superior to others and feel shame To be friends with them.14. Had television and the movies supplanted books?P Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? Or\ Had books been replaced by televisions and the movies?15.We are the people who……went out of print.P We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.16.It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.P We still found each other like we did when we were young17."Until I feared I would lose it,……To Kill a Mockingbird. P We often say that the starving know the value of food and the man dying of thirst knows the value of Water.㈣1. …done his business like a dog at the road side,……P He had emptied his bowels or passed water (urinated) like a dog at the roadside,……2. got scant thanks :P He seldom expressed his thanks to the people who had offered him some food 3. They were not quite sure…… Now he was back at his home.P Some were mad about wealth; some thirsted for power; some were crazy about sex……4. they amused himP These mad or insane people made him think that they were all ridiculous.5. He thought everybody lived……anxiously.P He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure. He argued that we should simplify our life.6. He was not the first to inhabit…out of principle.P He was not the first to live in a cask. But he was the first who ever did so because he wanted to, not by necessity, not being forced to . He based it on aprinciple.7. But he taught chief by example.P Diogenes also taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting an example for others to learn from.8. Diogenes answered "I'm trying to find a man."P He actually meant that all people he could see were only half-men. Here the word "man" means a true man.by Diogenes' standard.9. …that will come after you lose the use of your hands.P … that so-called happiness will occur when your hands become useless.10. And so he lived……P And that was how he lived……11. Only twenty, Alexander was far older and……restrained and chivalrous.P Alexander looked far older than a man of his age normally does, and was much wiser than man of his age normally is.12. It is of course “ the people” who were amazed, not “silence”P here were the people who were amazed, but remained silent.13 .hey took it as a paradox. P They regarded it as a paradox.14. But Alexander meant it P But Alexander really meant what he had said.15. He knew that of all men then alive……the beggar were free.P Alexander knew that of all the people alive at that time, he was free because he had absolute power and Diogenes was free because he didn’t need any power.㈤1.There was once a town……in harmony with its surroundings.×Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things2. Then some evil spell settled on the community:……but even among children.× Then, as by some evil power, disaster struck the community: strange diseasesquickly struck down large numbers of children; the cattle and sheep became ill and died.3.… a harsh reality we all shall know.×… some serious consequence that we all have to face.4.…a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.× ...a history of how living things and their environment affect and relate to eachother.5.… the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation…by the environment.×… the physical features and habits of the living things on earth have been Greatly shaped by their surroundings.6.… but it has changed in character.×… but the nature of this power to alter the environment has changed.7.This pollution is for the most irrecoverable.×In most case, the polluted air, soil, rivers and the sea cannot be restored to their original natural state.8. Or they pass mysteriously……from once pure wells.×Or they get deeper into underground streams, undergo some chemical processes somewhere, and then become new substances that contaminate wells, kill plants and make cattles as well as people that drink the water sick.9. Given time---time not in years……a balance has been reached.×When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes thousands of years for life to be in harmony with their modified world again.10. But in the modern world there is no time.×But in the modern world when man’s power to tamper with nature has become so great and he is so eager to change nature for short-term benefits, he does not think of the long-term interest of his own species.11. The rapidity of change follows…… deliberate pace of nature.×Man is changing nature rapidly while nature adjusts to the changes slowly. Therefore adjustment can never keep up with change, and a new balance between living things and their environment can hardly be reached.12. Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.×In the past, radiation was only sent out from radioactive substances in certain rocks; today man creates such harmful rays by causing the nucleus of the atom of such substances as radium to split.13.The chemicals are the synthetic creation of man’s tampering with the atom.× Nature dose not produce such things as chemicals. Chemicals are man-made and the results of man’s creative power.㈤14.And even this,……in an endless stream;….×It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible, it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously being created and produced.5. …find their way into actual use:×…manage to enter the market and be sold to farmers16. described as “ pests”×referred to as destructive insects17.…all this though the intended target……weeds or insects.×…all these serious consequences come about perhaps just because man wants to destroy a few weeds or insects.18. Can anyone believe it is pos sible……but “ biocides”.×Such number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surely make it unfit for all living things.19. destructive insects often undergo a “flare-back” or resurgence×The pests often return in even larger numbers.20.Thus the chemical war is never won,……in its violent crossfire.×Therefore, this fight between man and pests wil1 never come to an end, and all living things are affected by or fall victim to this chemical war.21.brought the threat of disease and d eath even to their own kind…× brought the threat of disease and death even to human beings themselves22.Nature has introduced……checks and balances.×Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself23.… the devotion of immense acreage to a single crop×…planting a single crop on large aera of farmlan24. Such a system set the stage for……insect population.×Such a way of farming creates favorable conditions for the rapid increase of particular insects.25. In new territory,……in its native land,…×In new territory, since there are no natural enemies as those that did not allow it to multiply or grow too rapidly in their native land,……26. Thus it is no accident that ……are in troduced species.×That’s why the most trouble-making insects in this country are not native but introduced, which is not accidental at all.27. the explosive power of outbreaks and new invasions×the power of insects to multiply/breed in large numbers suddenly and quickly and their power to invade new territories28.We have subjected enormous numbers of people to……without their knowledge.×By spraying insecticides on food grains,vegetables and fruit, we have caused large number of people to absorb harmful chemicals without asking whether theywould like to do so and often without their knowing it.㈨1.In some respects, globalization is merely a trendy word for an old process.× To some extent, globalization is not new. The world has always been in the process of market expansion. What is new is the term "globalization", which became fashionable only recently.2.A decade later, even after Asia's 1997-98 financial crisis, private capital flows dwarf governmental flows.×Ten years later, even after Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, private capital flows are still greater in number than governmental capital flows.3. The recent takeover struggle between British and German wireless giants isexceptional only for its size and bitterness.×The only difference between the recent takeover struggle between British and German radio giants and other cases is that this takeover is much bigger and a lot more bitter.4.Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global.× The reason for the merger boom is that more and more business people now believe that many markets have truly become global. They are no longer producing just for the people in their own country. They want to combine or merge with others to become multinational companies.5. Among poorer countries, the best sign of support is the clamor to get into the World Trade Organization ... And 32 are seeking membership.×Many poorer countries want to join the World Trade Organization. This shows that they support globalization.6.Despite its financial crisis, rapid trade expansion and economic growth sharply cut the number of the desperately poor.×In spite of the financial crisis, rapid increase of trade and economic growth drastically reduced the number of the very poor people.7. two problems could neutralize its potential benefits.×… two problems could offset the possible benefits.8.The global economy may be prone to harsher boom-bust cycles than national economies individually.×Once integrated with the world market, nations will naturally be more vulnerable to the fluctuations of the world economy. The capital flows in and out a country, for example, can create a boom or bust very quickly and with much harsher effects.9.The Asian financial crisis raised questions on both counts.×The Asian financial crisis brought these two questions to people's attention: investment funds were not well used and trade flows became too lopsided.10.The ensuing spending boom in turn aided Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.×The growth in spending that followed helped Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.㈨11.What prevented the Asian crisis from becoming a full-scale economic downturn has been the astonishing U.S. economy.× It was the surprisingly vigorous growth of the U. S. economy that saved the Asian crisis from escalating into an all-round economic depression.12.The world economy.., has been flying on one engine.× The world economy has been driven by only one country's economy, namely the economy of the United States. In other words, the world has become too dependent on one country's prosperity.13... a slowdown or recession--reflecting a decline in the stock market, a loss ofconsumer confidence or higher interest rate-- might snowball into an international slump.×…a slowdown of the U.S. economy might develop into a serious international depression because the world economy is so dependent on it.14.Japan is projected to grow ...×Japan is expected to grow ... / Japan is predicted to ... / Japan is estimated to 15. If the forecasts materialize--and the OECD's growth estimates for Japan exceed most private forecasts--they will restore some balance to the world economy and relieve fears of a global recession.×If the forecasts come true--and the Os growth estimates for Japan are higher than most private forecasts---they will, to some extent, help the world economy return to its earlier balance, and reduce the fear of a worldwide recession.16. It remains possible that abrupt surges of global capital, first moving into Asia andthen out, will have caused, with some delay, a larger instability.×It is still possible that sudden increase or withdrawal of the world's capital, first moving into Asia and then out of it, will have made Asia more unstable.17. It is precisely this logic that has persuaded so many countries to acceptglobalization.×It is exactly this way of thinking that has persuaded so many countries.18 .But this does not mean that a powerful popular backlash, with unpredictableconsequences, is not possible.×But this does not mean that a powerful hostile reaction from ordinary people, which will have unpredictable consequences, is not possible.19.A plausible presumption is that practical politicians would try to protect their constituents from global gluts.× We can presume that practical politicians would no doubt try to protect their voters from the flood of products from other countries.20.If too many countries did, globalization could implode.×If too many countries tried to protect their constituents from global gluts, globalization could collapse violently from the inside.21.It's a scary prospect. Economic interdependence cuts both ways.22.It's a terrifying possibility. Economic mutual dependence can have good and bad effects.。
现代大学英语精读3-unit4
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Part I: Words & Expressions
He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched, done his business like a dog at the roadside,.... (para. 1)
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They would throw sharp questions at him and get sharper answers.
Sometimes they threw bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and got a shower of stones and abuse.
现代大学英语精读paraphrase-原文译文版汇编
学习-----好资料Lesson one1.Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered.(para4)正确的行动是，确实也必须是以自我为中心的。
By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2.The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it wasbecause it was product of their excessive fecundity…..(para5)他的基本观点为人熟知：穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取，贫穷是热门过度生育的结果The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3.Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either itscreation or its amelioration. (para6)贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked toundertake the task of solving the problem.4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8)这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。
It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or tohuman society.5.It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9)然而在20世纪，人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷，遭到了普遍的质疑，人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。
现代大学英语精读3第三课课后答案(完整)
现代大学英语精读3第三课课后答案(完整)Pre-class Work II1. Paraphrase.1) And when he was 29 now, he has found the power of another idea that has enabled him to grow from a teenager and become a rich and powerful person in computer industry.2) ... he thought it might be a good idea to finish his high school education as quickly as possible.3) He believed that the newly married people are the most likely customers.4) He also knew that it was expensive to keep more products than necessary. So he bought these products of the dealer's at the price they had bought them.5) Dell put advertisements in the local media and was ready to sell specially designed and made computers at a price which was 15 percent lower than the market price.6) It was time for him to seriously deal with the size of the computer business he had created.7) Dell still sold IBM personal computers to which he had added special properties required by people.2. Learn to use reference books.1) Find the proper definition of the following in the text.(1) stock: a supply of a particular type of thing that a shop has available to sell(2) firm: a business or company(3) break: a short holiday(4) feature: something important, interesting or typical of a place or thing(5) order: a request for a product to be made for you or delivered to you(6) overhead: money spent regularly on rent, insurance, electricity, and other things that are needed tokeep a business operating(7) accounting: the work of accountants or the methods they use(8) edge: sth. that gives you an advantage over others2) Find the synonyms of the following in a thesaurus.(1) cast: throw, toss, fling, hurl, pitch, chuck, thrust, heave(2) flabbergasted: surprised, shocked, amazed3. Word-building.1) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.(1) plunge (2) contact (3) advertisement/advertising(4) enrollment (5) requirement (6) inquiry(7) replacement (8) marketing/market (9) failure(10) incorporation (11) guarantee (12) specialization2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.(1) to subscribe (2) to perform (3) to deliver(4) to donate (5) to consume (6) to entitle(7) to manufacture (8) to compute3) Translate the following based on what you know about rules of word-building.(1)现在的问题不是生产过剩，而是消费不足。
现代大学英语精读3第二版Unit1_Book3
V (12-18 or so) adolescence
VI (the 20’s) young adult VII (late 20’s to 50’s) middle adult
ego-identity vs. role-confusion
intimacy vs. isolation generativity vs. self-absorption
ޜErik Erickson: (1902-1994)
Freudian ego-psychologist, “father of psychosocial development” and “the architect of identity.” According to Erickson, the identity crisis is the most important conflict human beings encounter when they go through eight developmental stages in life.
Psychosocial virtues
Maladaptations & Malignancies sensory distortion → withdrawal impulsivity → compulsion ruthlessness → inhibition narrow virtuosity → nertia
Text Analysis
1. Genre:
Style
expository essay, e.g. formal, serious, academic, educational 2. Diction: big, complicated, formal words, technical jargon, e.g.
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Unit 11. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time. (1)Paraphrase:But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the day I was forced to go to school for the first time.2.“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?”(3)Paraphrase:Why do I have to go to school? I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong to be punished like this.3. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (5)Paraphrase:I didn’t think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls.4. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (15)Paraphrase:What we did at school wasn’t just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful.5. In addition, the time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16)Paraphrase:Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed home playing and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.Unit 21. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. (para. 1)Paraphrase:Banks act like churches which usually control people’s life and can interfere in people’s life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches.2. It was lunchtime and the only officer on duty was a fortyish black man with short, pressed hair, a pencil mustache, and a neatly pressed brown suit. (para. 3)Paraphrase:uncurled hair, a thin mustache looking like a line drawn by a pencil, and a neat and tidy brown suit3. Everything about him suggested a carefully dressed authority. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Everything about him—his clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man4. I moved in for the kill. (para. 19)Paraphrase:I began to prepare to kill, destroy or defeat my enemy.5. I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20)Paraphrase:I’m going to have a strong argument to silence the bank officer.6. Look, … we’re just wasting each other’s time. (para. 29)Paraphrase:Look, let’s stop talkin g about this because it is a waste of time./You are just talking nonsense.I don’t want to listen to you any more.7.… has been shaking this boy down… (para. 30)Paraphrase:… has been getting money from the boy by using threats…8. Anyway, the poli ce are on the case… (para. 30)Paraphrase:Anyway, the police are working on the case…9. Not that I ever heard of. (para. 32)Paraphrase:I have never heard of such rules.Unit 31. My husband moved into our house as is the way with us in Esarn. (para. 1) Paraphrase:When we got married, we followed the tradition in Esarn and my husband came to live with my family.2. He has ears which don’t hear, a mouth which doesn’t speak, and eyes that don’t see. ( para.2)Paraphrase:He does not notice what is happening around us and to our children, nor does he express his thoughts and feelings. (The woman is complaining that her husband does not bother about their children’s troubles.)3. … and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like u s, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us who are getting old, weak and tired.4.… but in a bad year, it’s not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too. (para. 3)When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad that our hearts break too.5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now it’s all cash. (para. 4) Paraphrase:Just ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but now we have to buy everything from the market.6. Shops have sprung up, filled with colorful plastic things and goods we have no use for. (para. 4)Paraphrase:Shops have suddenly appeared in the village selling attractive plastic things and things we don’t need.7. As for me, I wouldn’t change, couldn’t change even if I wanted to. (para. 7) Paraphrase:I didn’t want to change myself and my life, and actually I did not have the ability to change even if I wanted to.8. Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. (para. 7)Paraphrase:Though I’m poor, old and weak, I can still work in the rice field all day.9. I am at peace with the land and the condition of my life. (para. 9)Paraphrase:I am content with my land and accept my situation in life without complaint.10. I have been forcing silence upon her all these years, yet she had not once complained of anything. (para. 9)Paraphrase:All these years, I hardly talk with her or listen to her, so she has to keep silent about her thoughts and feelings, but she has never told anyone else about her unhappy feelings about my silence.11. Still the land could not tie them down or call them back. (para. 10)Paraphrase:My children grew up and had happy days on this land, but this could not prevent them from leaving for cities or attract them back from cities.12. Sickness comes and goes, and we get back on our feet again. (para. 11)Paraphrase:Inevitably we sometimes fall ill, but when we get well again we can always get back to our normal life and work on our land.1. Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2)Paraphrase:Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.2. …a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4) Paraphrase:…an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.3. The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)Paraphrase:The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest.4. You are disillusioned. (para. 5)Paraphrase:You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.5. Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)Paraphrase:Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.By then I will have fulfilled my mission.6. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6) Paraphrase:In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.7. I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time. (para. 11)Paraphrase:(He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.)8. It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12)Paraphrase:9. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, … (para. 15)Paraphrase:I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.10. Keeping his bo dy twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para.22)Paraphrase:He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest.Unit 61. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak. (para. 1)Paraphrase:When the radiator started to drip, my old jeep was trying hard to climb up the mountain in the scenery rural area.2. The over-heated engine forced me to stop at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that were scattered here and there. (para. 1)Paraphrase:Due to the high temperature of the engine, I had to stop at the next village, which contained a small shop and several houses that were loosely distributed.3. He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his statement. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Then he examined me with great caution in the way of ensuring whether I understood the importance of his words.4. As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. (para. 5)Paraphrase:As someone educated in the United States, I naturally had never paid any attention to the green banana, except to take it as a fruit which was not yet ripe or which was not yet ready to be picked and eaten.5. It was my own time that had come, all in relation to it. (para. 5)Paraphrase:It was me who had come to know the green bananas, and everything connected with it. According to the author, every civilization has special geniuses (symbolized by the green banana), which have existed for many years. But they will not come to your notice and benefit you until and unless you are ready to go out and meet them.6. I had been wondering for some time about what educators like to call “learning moments”, and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once. (para. 5)The two things that suddenly dawned on him are: the fact that every civilization has wonderful treasure to share with others and the idea that every village, town, region or country has a right to regard itself as the center of the world.7. The cultures of the world are full of unexpected green bananas with special value and meaning. (8)Paraphrase:The green bananas have become a symbol of hidden treasures from every culture. For proper understanding of a piece of writing, it is often important to notice such symbolic language and to know what the symbols stand for.Unit 81. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. (para. 1)Paraphrase:He held his thumb out and the gas can to show that he was out of gas and needed a lift to the nearest gas station. Generally speaking, at the same time of holding his thumb out, a hitchhiker also has a board in his hand, on which the name of the place he wants to go is written. Here, the gas can shows that the young man has run out of gasoline for his car.2. Leaving him stranded in the desert did not bother me so much. (para. 2)Paraphrase:Because the author thought it was sensible for him to do so and did so indeed as a matter of course as other people would do the same in the situation.It shows that it was really something common. The real issue then was not that he didn’t help the young man but that he never thought about offering help to strangers.3. It would be cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. (para. 5) Paraphrase:I would travel without a penny through the country where money was extremely important.4. I rose early…and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles “America”. (para. 6) Paraphrase:Because what he wanted to do was to discover America and American people. The destination of the journey was Cape Fear, just literally, but the real destination was to seek understanding of the country and its people.5. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming. In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa. (para.7)Paraphrase:They suggest that the people there (probably people everywhere), were more or less provincial (another sub-concept of ethnocentric?). They tended to make false assumptions about people in other places, i.e. the people in their place were nicer/better than those in other places.6. I didn’t know whether to kiss them or scold them for stopping. (para. 8)(Because the situation when the two little ladies stopped for the author was, in his eyes, potentially dangerous for them. He says so to emphasize both the kindness and courage the ladies showed in that particular situation.)7. Once when I was hitchhiking unsuccessfully in the rain, a trucker pulled over, locking his brakes so hard he skidded on the grass shoulder. (Para. 9)Paraphrase:(Because he had to. Otherwise he would not be able to stop right before the author. It shows the mental struggle that was probably going on in the driver’s mind. He was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker, which made it more difficult for him to make such a decision at the moment than others. However, he chose to stop finally and his kindness was thereby highlighted.)8. Those who had the least to give often gave the most. (para.10)Paraphrase:Poor people are often more generous. They are often ready/willing to give comparatively more of what they have to those in need than rich people.9. Now we’re talking, I thought. (para.12)Paraphrase:Now he knew what I wanted and the talk was going in the right direction.10. “When we do, ” he said, “it’s usually kin.” (Para. 13)Paraphrase:(The local people do not usually entertain/receive guests at home.) They only do this for their kin relatives.11. In spite of everything, you can still depend on the kindness of strangers. (para.15) Paraphrase:(It means the fact that there are people who are i ndifferent to other people’s needs/ who refuse to help others/who may hesitate to help and people may say about lack of compassion in our society and a generally moral decay in our society. I find, however, on the whole you can still depend on the kindness of strangers.)Unit 91. The impressiveness was normal and not for show, for spectators were few. (para. 1) Paraphrase:The police officer walked that way habitually, not to attract attention or admiration because there were few people in the streets to be impressed. The description shows that the policeman quite enjoyed his work.2. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club with many clever movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye down the peaceful street, the officer, with his strongly built form and slight air of superiority, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. (para. 2) Paraphrase:competent at, confident of, proud of, and dutiful to his job. All these factors gave people the impression that he was a trustworthy protector of the peace. ( Notice how a string of present participles are used as adverbials to vividly describe the policeman’s actions.)3. The area was one that kept early hours. (para. 2)Paraphrase:People in that area closed their stores pretty early.4. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. (para. 7) Paraphrase:The next morning I was going to leave (New York) for the West as planned to make a lot of money and get rich.5. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fate worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be. (para. 7)Paraphrase:We thought by that time we would have found out our fate and known how much we have achieved materially—whether our fortune huge or small.6. But after a year or two we lost track of each other. (para. 9)Paraphrase:We wrote letters and kept in touch with each other for a year or two, and then we stopped writing and haven’t hea rd from or heard of each other. Now neither of us knows what has happened or is happening to the other.7. You see, the West is a pretty big place, and I kept running around over it pretty lively. (para.9)Paraphrase:I kept moving around in the West, ne ver staying in the same place for long. (And that’s why it was hard for us to keep track of each other.)8. …and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up. (para. 9)Paraphrase:If my old friend comes to meet me as he promised, I would think my trouble of travelling so far is fairly rewarded.9. He was a kind of slow man, though, good fellow as he was. (para. 13)Paraphrase:However, he wasn’t very smart, even thought he was a good person.10. I’ve had to compete with some of the sharpest brains going to get my money. (para. 13 ) Paraphrase:In order to make money, I had to compete with the most shrewd and crafty people.11. A man gets stuck in New York. It takes the West to make a man really keen. (para.Paraphrase:A man is unable to go very far or to be very successful in New York where life is boring and opportunities for change are few. He has to go to the West to become an eager and exciting person.The man from the west means that New York City was “civilized”; it had too many laws, and that getting rich quickly was less likely. In the West, however, one could by-pass the rules, and though being tougher and smarter one could become rich very fast.12. I should say not! (para. 16)Paraphrase:Of course I am not going to leave immediately.13. The few foot passengers in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. (para. 18 )Paraphrase:There were few people in the street of this part of the city. They had turned their coat collars high an d kept their hands in their pockets for warmth. They didn’t look happy and were walking fast without saying anything.14. “Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival. (para. 21)Paraphrase:“Bless my heart!” the man who had just arrived said aloud in surp rise.15. It’s Bob, sure a fate. (para. 22)Paraphrase:Definitely it’s you, Bob.16. How has the West treated you, old man? (para. 22)Paraphrase:How well did you do in the West, old friend?17. …we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times. （para. 26）Paraphrase:I’ve heard of a place, so let’s go there and we will have a long talk about those happy days we spent together in the past. Note that probably the plainclothes policeman was thinking: I’ll take you to the police station and you will tell me about the crimes you committed in the past.18. At the corner stood a drugstore brilliant with electric lights. (para. 28)Paraphrase:There was a drugstore at the corner. Its electric lights were on and it was very bright inside. 19. Chicago thinks you may come over our way and telegraphs us she wants to have a chat with you. (para. 31)Paraphrase:asked us to help them track you down and arrest.20. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. (para. 31)Paraphrase:You won’t put up a fight and resist arrest, will you. That (cooperating will us without causing any disturbance) is the right thing to do.21. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. (para. 33)Paraphrase:For some reason I couldn’t arrest you myself, so I had a policeman not wearing a uniform do it.Jimmy had mixed feelings. He knew what his duty was. But the memories of their friendship, the expressions of Bob’s undying respect and admiration for him and the fact that Bob had come all the way from a thousand miles away just to keep the appointment made 20 years before must have deeply touched him. Therefore, he could not bring himself to arrest Bob.Unit 101. The end of manual labor was liberating. (1)Paraphrase:Mandela is talking about forced labor. He felt liberated after the manual labor had been ended.2. To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfact ion in one’s daily life. (2) Paraphrase:In order not to die and go on living in prison, prisoners must cultivate ways to learn to enjoy themselves in their daily life.3. But eventually they gave in, and we were able to cut out a small garden on a narrow patch of earth against the far wall. (3)Paraphrase:But finally they agreed unwillingly, and we were able to mark out a small garden on a strip of earth against the wall in the distance.4. At the time, some of my comrades joked that I was a miner at heart, for I spent my days ina wasteland and my free time digging in the courtyard. (4)Paraphrase:At that time, some of my comrades said jokingly that I was really a miner since I spent my days in a land which had been deserted for a long time and my spare time digging in the courtyard.5. The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions. (5)Paraphrase:The person in charge didn’t feel regretful that they had allowed me to have a garden because as soon as the garden began to grow well, I often gave the warders some of my best tomatoes此文档收集于网络，如有侵权，请联系网站删除6. I told her this small story at great length. I do not know what she read into that letter, …(11)Paraphrase:I told her this small story in detail. I do not know whether she understood the meaning of the letter more than it did.精品文档。
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现代大学英语精读3unit4课后答案Unit 4 Wisdom of Bear WoodI Pre-class work1. Paraphrase.1) I spent most of my time wandering in the forests and the fields alone, acting Robin Hood, daydreaming collecting bugs and bird-watching. (Para. 3)2) To live a quiet life and not to get involved with other people was my way of avoiding any friendship that I would only have to abandon the next time we moved. (Para. 3)3) But one day I began a friendship just by chance. (Para. 3)4) I started to take a long walk.., to a dense growth of trees called Bear Wood. (Para. 4)5) Yes, they are watchful; But the bad thing is that some gamekeepers have been killing them since they got here and they were brought into this place form somewhere else, not born and raised here. (Para.11)6) I looked at the cabinets with glass windows that contained statues and models carved out of ivory and stone trays of butterflies fastened with pins and.., about twelve birds that were made into specimens. (Para. 18)7) I learn a lot of knowledge, taught by nature itself, about the things I can see--the birds, insects, trees, and flowers, and the things I cannot see--ideas, scientific laws and principles. I also learn a lot about the things that change, including life itself, as well as the things that are changeless like friendship, love, and many basic values. (Para. 37)2. Learn to use the dictionary and other reference books.1) Give the definition of the following.(1) odds and ends: small things of various kinds without much value(2) rather than: instead of2) Find the synonyms and the antonyms of the following ina Thesaurus.(1) immense antonyms: little, small, tiny, minute(2) to glow synonyms: to radiate, to blare, to blaze, to brighten, to gleam, to shine3. W0rd-building.l) Give corresponding nouns of the following verbs.(1) possession (2) endurance (3) penetration(4) encounter (5) retirement (6) suspicion/suspect(7) abandonment (8) inclination (9) exploration(10) recovery (11) warning (12 ) proceeding(13) fascination (14) form/formation (15) glimpse2) Give corresponding nouns of the following adjectives.(1) anxiety (2) misery (3) density(4) instinct (5) familiarity (6) essence(7) immensity (8) stupidity (9) suddenness(10) invisibility (11) generosity (12) productivity(13) fondness (14) equivalency3) Guess the meaning of the following, based on the rules of word-building you have learned.(1)一个吸引人的故事(2)一番引言，开场白(3)令人惊异的快速康复(4)一份费力的工作(5)集体的努力(6)一个可爱的人(7)一番深刻的分析(8)渴望权力的人们(9)使铁路行业私有化(10)一位非常娇惯子女的母亲(II)一次毫无意义的行动(12)秘密的行为(13)被认为是不可触知的(14)他那好笑的笨拙的样子(15)外汇收入(16)看上去可疑的(17)能见度低(18)听起来迂腐的(19)有很多崇拜者(20)积累的资金(21)易变的天气(22)无色的液体(23)冗长的讲话4) Study carefully and discover new rules of word-building.(1) the adjectives used as verbs(2) the suffix "-ify" added to the end of a word to change it to a verb, meaning to make something be in the stated state or condition(3) the compound nouns consisting of two words with the first one as the object of the action denoted by the second one More Work on the TextII Vocabulary1. Translate1) into English.(1) to explore the secrets of nature (2) to endure pain and suffering(3) to earn everyone's admiration (4) to suspect a dirty plot(5) to introduce this sheep (6) to surround the enemy(7) to demand an open apology (8) to extend her hand(9) to roam the fields (10) to dangle his feet(11) to catch one's breath (12) to give permission(13) to abandon hope (14) to accumulate experience(15) to form a strong team (16) to possess property(17) to design a new model (18) to collect facts2) into Chinese.(1)一次有收获的经历(2)看起来似乎不同(3)零星的东西(4)古老的城堡(5)铁丝网篱笆(6)石雕的人或动物像(7)人间天堂(8)制成标本的鸟(9)密集的月桂树丛(10)铺着柔软地毯的地板(11)一种珍稀动物(12)潜在的购买者(13)晒干了的树叶(14)样子很熟悉的房子(15)笨拙的动作(16)退休工人(17)面上有玻璃的书架(18)高倍望远镜2. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following.1) Give synonyms.(1) to wander (2) to give up(3) great, large, massive, huge (4) heavenly, sacred(5) heaven (6) to look at(7) to continue (8) dear(9) lasting (10) attractive, admirable(11) silently (12) to watch(13) weak (14) to alarm, to give a start(15) to gather (16) to teach(17) to own (18) to surprise, to astonish(19) sadly thoughtful (20) alert, watchful, cautious2) Give antonyms.(1) minor (2) unhappy, displeased (3) thin(4) hell (5) public (6) introduced(7) invisible (8) unseen (9) harmful(10) colorless (11) center (12) great3. Translate.1) There are still hundreds of millions of people in the world today who earn less than a dollar a day.2) So many people get stomach cancer. I suspect that the water we drink may be seriously polluted.3) We have earned strong support of the government to make smoking illegal in public places.4) He has earned the great admiration of the people as an honest government official.5) Old people in China today are not inclined to live with their children.6) I am inclined to look at things from the bright side.7) The smugglers seem to know all our actions. I suspect that someone among us is passing secret information to them.8) She says that she just doesn't feel inclined to work today.9) We could not identify the body because it was too badly burnt.10) These people roam from place to place without regular jobs and without social identity. More and more people now regard it as unfair.11) I still regard it as important for our young people to care about their national identity.12) With regard to flood control, I am still inclined to think that to plant more trees is more important than anything else.4. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words.1) B 2) D 3) A 4) A 5) D 6) D 7) B/C 8) C5. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate expression below.1) wrench myself away from it 2) care to 3) keeping to herself4) Thanks to, as it were 5) odds and ends 6) went by, at ease7) with a will 8) filled up 9) at ease10) brim over 11) bursting with 12) verges on13) slipped through 14) verges against 15) warned against, as it were6. Choose the right word in the given context.1) (1) crawl (2) climbed (3) crept (4) creep/crawl2) (1) tone (2) tune (3) tune (4) tone。
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Pre-class Work II1. Paraphrase.1) No. 12: He came back to get back the knife. After all, leaving his knife sticking out of the body is not a pleasant scene.No. 7: Especially when the person is one of his relatives.No. 4: That's not funny at all. Don't make any joke about it.2) No. 3: ... I've seen all kinds of cheating, lying and other dirty tricks in my life, but this littledemonstration is the worst I have ever seen.3) No. 7: ... How do you think about him (Juror No. 11)? He came to America to escape persecution,but now before he can take a deep breath, almost immediately, he is telling us Americans how to doeverything. I'm really amazed why he should be so conceited and rude.4) No. 9: Your eyeglasses made two deep marks beside your nose. I haven't noticed it before. I guess itmust be very annoying.No. 4: Yes, it is annoying.No. 9: I don't know what you feel about that, since my eyesight is perfect and I've never worn glasses.5) No. 3: You've showed unreasonable sympathy for thosepeople. How terrible you all are. Are you goingto frighten me not to vote him guilty? You can't. I have the right to h01d my own point.2, Learn to use reference books.Find the correct definition of the following in the text.1) figure: to think; to guess2) beat: to arrive at the very spot3) bear: to prove4) stamp: to keep lifting each foot and bringing it down again very hard to make a noise5) room: chance6) term: a word or expression that has a particular meaning7) bridge: a card game for four players who play in pairs8) feature: a film being shown at a cinema9) tie: the result of a game, competition, or election in which two or more people get the same number ofpoints, votes, etc.10) impressions: marks3. Find the synonyms of the following in a thesaurus.1) crazy: insane, mad, unbalanced2) to bother : to annoy, to trouble, to dismay, to worry, to disquiet, to disturb, to upset, to plague, to try4. Word-building.I) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.(1) vote (2) assumption (3) dependence(4) risk(5) objection (6) recreation (7) declaration(8) obscurity(9) plunge (10) description (11) annoyance (12) intimidation2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.(1)to detect (2) to relate (3) to doubt (4) to differ(5) to display (6) to execute (7) to stress(8) to breathe(9) to disgust (10) to narrate (11) to switch3) Translate the following using your acquired rules of word-building and point out which "-ing"form denotes a gerund and which a present participle. Participles: (2), (4), (6), (8), (11), (12), (13), (15), (16), (17), (18), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26), (27),(28), (30), (31), (32), (34), (39), (40), (42), (44), (45), (46), (47), (49), (50)Gerunds: all the rest4) Study how these words are formed and make your own discoveries of rules of word building.(4) Give the noun forms of the following.resistance brilliance fragrance competenceexistence evidence violence dependenceconfidence reluctance persistence intelligenceMore Work on the TextII. vocabulary1.Translate1) into English.(1) to risk being criticized (2) to present the evidence(3) to capture the tiger (4) to twist the fact(5) to cover one's blunder (6) to recreate the scene(7) to stamp one's feet (8) to skip through one's fingers(9) to put oneself in sb.'s place (10) to run forone's life(11) to break the tie (12) to give a demonstration(13) to obscure the truth (14) to take a deep breath(15) to run the country2) into Chinese.(1)铁证(2)合理的怀疑(3)重施脂粉；浓妆艳抹(4)精神压力(5)陪审团意见分歧，无法做出决定(6)刑事(民事)法庭(7)近(远)亲(8)最终判决(9)旧货店(10)辩护律师(11)潜在威胁(12)滋生地2．Give synonyms and antonyms of the following．1)Give synonyms．(1)sure，certain(2)to catch，to arrest，to seize，to take prisoner(3)to calculate，to think，to believe，to presume，to guess(4)common，usual，ordinary，familiar(5)to join，to attach，tO combine，to unite，to link(6)drawing，map，plan，chart(7)show,demonstration，exhibition(8)beautiful，attractive，good-looking(9)terror,horror，great fear，fright，scare(10)mistake，error(11)to thrust，to attack，to hit at，to strike at，to charge(12)fuss，excitement，uproar，disturbance(13)strain，tension，pressure，burden(14)bad，awful，terrible，nasty，unpleasant(1 5)to terrify，to frighten，to make afraid，to bully2)Give antonyms．(1)near-sighted，short—sighted，myopic(2)illogical，irrational，inconsistent(3)old，ancient，outmoded，old—fashioned(4)valueless，worthless(Not：invaluable)(5)to reveal，to show,to clarify(6)tO approve，to agree，to accept，to welcome(7)peaceful(8)unconvinced，doubtful，uncertain(9)upward(10)expensive，costly，dear(11) dishonesty(12) educated, knowledgeable, well-informed(13) inconspicuous, unnoticeable, invisible(14) destructive3. Translate.1) More and more young people now favor the idea of spending their holidays traveling.2) I am still in favor of having my parents live with us in their old age.3) No facts have ever borne out the claim that with some methods one can learn a foreign language inweeks or months.4) Today all state-owned enterprises must bear their responsibilities for their losses.5) He must be out of his mind to do that. How can you bear such an insult?6) I have been to many interesting places in the world in my day. But now that I'm old, I still feel that "Eastand West, Home is Best".7) If you stick to these bad habits, you will risk losing your health.8) I'm sick and tired of being told what to do with my personal life.9) If I should fail, am I entitled to a makeup exam?10) Under those pressures he still had the courage to stick to histheory.11) There was a nail sticking out of that chair. It tore my favorite pants.12) We must not run the risk of violating intellectual property rights.13) We can't bear seeing all this garbage around. So we have decided to clean it up ourselves.14) Stick this motto on the wall where we can all see.15) One of the issues that remain in question in the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the issue ofJerusalem.16) It remained me of how we all tried to make steel in our backyard stoves in 1958.17) He may have forgotten. I should have reminded him to attend this meeting,18) Please remind everybody that tomorrow's volleyball match has been put off.Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word.1) in 2) off 3) down on 4) out 5) into 6) out 7) aside8) apart 9) up 10) into 11) out, at 12) in 13) in, on 14) in, inGive verbs that can form collocations with the following nouns.1) to make, to see, to get, to gain, to score, to give, to prove, to lose, to win, to come to, to get to (a/thepoint)2) to make, to pass, to obey, to break, to enforce, to respect, to revise, to lay down (a/the law)3) to take, to change, to count, to have, to cast, to win, to get, to call for, to put to (a/the/one's vote)7. Choose the right words in their proper forms.1) (1) incredible (2) incredulously (3) incredible (4) incredulous2) (1) announced (2) declared (3) announced (4) declared(5) declare (6) announced3) (1) arrested (2) caught (3) captured(4) captured4) (1) annoyed (2) bother/disturb/annoy (3) disturb/bother (4) disturbed(5) troubling (6) trouble8. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.(1) within (2) why (3) heavy(4) edge(5) lay (6) dark old (7) something (8) though(9) which (10) had fallen (11) on the front of (12) until(13) asking (14) mind (15) about IlL Grammar1. Understand grammar in context: study the use of the modal + have done construction andpoint out the concept each conveys.(The perfect infinitive denotes a past action or condition. When it is used with modals, the concept itexpresses depends on the modal.)1) improbability of a past action 2) probability of a past action3) probability of a past action 4) probability of a past action5) possibility of a past action 6) probability of a past action7) possibility of a past condition/state 8) probability of a past action9) necessity of a past action 10)probability of a past action11) probability of a past action 12) subjective certainty of a past action13) probability of a past action 14) obligation for a past action15) probability of past actions2. Rewrite the following sentences using could (not), may (not), must, would (not), should(not) followed by a perfect infinitive.1) Use "could (not)".(1) couldn't have run to the door in 15 seconds(2) couldn't have seen clearly who the murderer was(3) couldn't have committed the crime since he was at home with his mother at the time(4) couldn't have had a better time if you didn't invite us to this delightful party2) Use "may/might (not)".(1) may have been right(2) may not have sent it(3) may/might have killed the father with a similar knife(4) may/might have left it behind in the train(5) may not have passed our message to him(6) might/may have been a spy working in the minister's office(7) might/may not have seen me(8) may/might not have seen the advertisement.3) Use "must".(1) must have been written by a woman(2) must have been very exciting(3) must have been hard to get him to support the campaign(4) must have snowed all night(5) must have lied(6) must have happened between the two of them4) Use "would (not)".(1) wouldn't have quarreled over such trivial matters(2) would have lied just to attract attention(3) wouldn't have stabbed downward(4) wouldn't have invested heavily in real estate in a country on the brink of a civil war(5) wouldn't have been defeated by a computer5) Use "should (not)".(1) shouldn't have broken the sad news to her like that(2) should have told her the truth about her birth(3) shouldn't have walked all the way home(4) should have thought that/should have asked if3. Translate the sentences using the "modal + have done" construction.1) When I looked at my watch, he must have guessed my thoughts.2) It was so silent that you could have heard a pin drop.3) Don't worry. The children might have gone to their grandparents' place.4) You shouldn't have criticized your staff like that. They've done their best.5) I believe many other people would have done what I did under the circumstances.6) The druggist was a short man who could/might have been any age from fifty to a hundred.7) As all staff members had access to the information, any one of them could have downloaded thedocument.8) The man who saved two old ladies from a burning house said that others would have done the sameunder the circumstances.9) As his best friend, you should have advised Lao Wang to make up with his wife before it was too late.10) I definitely wouldn't have devoted all my time and energy to surfing on the Internet as he did last4. Put in appropriate connectives.(l) and (2) but (3) that (4) Since (5) and (6) But(7) as (8) But (9) where (10) as (11) who (12) that5. Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer.t) A 2) A 3) C 4) B 5) C 6) D 7) D 8) C 9) B10)A 11) C 12) D 13) C 14) D 15) CIV. Written WorkSummarize the reasonable doubts the jurors raise in this part of the play within 200 words.1) Juror No. 2 had a reasonable doubt about the downward angle of the stab wound. First, the boy was shorterthan his father. Second, anyone who was handy with the switch knife like the boy would use h underhand.The boy wouldn't have stabbed down.2) No. 9 doubted the eyesight of the woman who testified that she saw the killing take place. She had markson the sides of her nose which could only be made by eyeglasses. As no one wears glasses in bed, shecouldn't have identified a person 60 feet away at night without wearing glasses.3) If the boy had killed his father he wouldn't have gone back three hours later to get his knife. And hecouldn't have run out in a state of panic because then he would have had to be calm enough to wipe off hisfingerprints.4) The fact that the boy couldn't remember the names of the movies he said he saw on the night of the murdercouldn't be used as evidence against the boy either, because when No. 8 asked No. 4 the name of the movie hehad seen only a couple of days before, he couldn't answer accurately. ( 185 words.)。
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Pre-class Work H1. Paraphrase.1) No. 8: The society has not treated the boy very well. Therefore we should at least talk a little bit beforewe send him to the chair. That's all I want to do. Nothing else.2) No. 9: I'm surprised to hear you say that as if dishonesty has ever been a characteristic peculiar to aspecific group.3) No. 8: Nobady has to prove the kid is innocent. According to the principle of law, he is innocent untileproven guilty, and he can only be convicted if his guilt is beyond reasonable doubt.4) No. 4: These two slaps may have been beyond his limit of endurance. The boy has been kicked aroundso often that he may have been reaching the breaking point when the two slaps come.5) No. 8: If I were tried in court and the verdict would decide whether I would live or be executed, I wouldwant my lawyer to try his best to refute the prosecutor's evidence completely.6) No. 3: Brother, you're really annoying. You sat here and voted guilty like the rest of us. And then, somehypocritical person like a preacher said something with his affected language and voice, you just beganto show your sympathy for the boy and then changed your vote. This is the most disgusting... I suggestyou go to the church or some other charity institution to contribute some money, which will be moredirect and virtuous.2. Learn to use reference books.l) Find the proper definition of the following in the text.(1) charge: to accuse sb. of sth. esp. formally in a court of law(2) term: a period of times(3) state: condition or circumstances(4) plain: simply(5) blade: knife (edge)(6) jam: to squeeze sth. into a space so that it cannot move out(7) bright: smart, clever(8) hang: to make (a jury) unable to reach a unanimous decision(9) given: fixed2) Find the synonyms and antonyms of the following in a thesaurus.(1) fantastic:synonyms: marvelous, extremely good, wonderful, sensational, terrific, fabulous, superb, greatantonyms: reasonable, sensible, credible, ordinary, common, moderate(2) peculiar:synonyms: odd, queer, strange, unusual, abnormal, unconventional, weird, eccentric, bizarreantonyms: common, general, universal, usual, ordinary, conventional, familiar 3. Word-building.1) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.(1) handle/handling (2) charge (3) accusation(4) supposition (5) disagreement (6) mixture/mix(7) refutation (8) provocation (9) commitment(10) divergence2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.(I) to try (2) to prosecute (3) to mug(4) to allege (5) to guard (6) to sicken(7) to preach (8) to elevate (9) to tear(10) to bear (11) to accomplish (12) to excite(13) to coincide (14) to forgeMore Work on the TextII. Vocabulary1. Translate.1) into Chinese.(1)犯严重错误(2)负责处理该案(3)出庭作证(4)提供证据(5)验明凶器(6)抹去指印(7)进行盘问(8)付诸表决(9)要求表决(10)以不记名投票方式表决(11)投票赞成或反对(12)投票认为有罪(13)作出判决(14)判决某人死刑(15)成功地耍一个花招(16)堵塞河流2) into English.(1) to quote the Bible (2) to list all the reasons(3) to dial the phone number (4) to define the word(5) to serve a jail term (6) to owe someone an apology(7) to refute an argument (8) to test the sharpness of a knife(9) to clear one's throat (10) to miss the point(11) to set a time limit . (12) to make a rule(13) to split the rent (14) to pass a given point(15) to tear something to shreds/pieces (16) to get back to the point(17) to stab (somebody) in the back2. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following.1) Give synonyms.(1) evident, clear, plain, distinct, conspicuous(2) feeble, weak, inadequate, poor(3) to cry out, to shout, to scream(4) normal, usual, common, routine(5) threat, danger(6) legal advisor, lawyer, attorney(7) proof, material proof, grounds, fact(8) disreputable people, scum, loafers(9) dirty, unclean, rotten(10) disagreement, quarrel, dispute(11) smart, wise, clever, intelligent(12) to thrust, to stick in, to stuff(13) unbelievable, remarkable, amazing(14) to differ, to disagree, to separate(15) to achieve, to carry out, to do, to perform, to realize, to attain, to fulfill(16) proposal, suggestion, recommendation, plan(17) disgusting(18) decision, judgment, opinion(19) intolerable, unacceptable, unthinkable(20) trait, quality, feature2) Give antonyms.(1) inaccurate (2) proud (3) calm, cool(4) innocent (5) to deny (6) defense(7) insensitive (8) strong, solid (9) to disprove, to refute(10) impersonal (11) dishonest (12) irregular(13) negative (14) abnormal3. Translate.1) Our company was heavily in debt when he took over. We owed the bank about 10 million.2) Lao Song, I owe you an apology. The other day I really behaved like a fool.3) People know very well that they owe everything they have today to the reform and open policy.4) Why did their boat invade our territorial waters? They owe us an explanation at least.5) He claimed to have two Ph.D degrees from two universities.6) Both sides claimed to have won the competition.7) The Taipings took the city finally. But the battle claimed one of their best leaders.8) These patients won the claim of 50 million dollars for their damaged health.9) This otherwise wonderful manager is a womanizer.10) Her otherwise perfect family only has one problem: Her little daughter is handicapped.11) The Congress will vote on this new tax law sometime next week. The exact time has not yet beenfixed.12) Big business will vote for that party. They won't vote otherwise.13) After a heated discussion, they finally put it to a vote. The vote was three to four in Bush's favor.14) John Kennedy was the first Catholic in US history to be voted into the White House.15) In the stock market, people often vote with their feet.16) The problems we now have remind us that social justice is just as important as economic prosperity.17) That day she forgot to remind her husband to get his car fixed.18) The story reminded me of many terrible things that happened in the so-called "cultural revolution."4. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word.1) down 2) in 3) on, off 4) out 5) out 6) out 7) over 8) over 9) away with 10) with, without 11) into, in 12) with6. Choose the right words in their proper forms.I) (1) sensible (2) sensitive (3) sensitive (4) sensible2) (1) excited (2) excitable (3) exciting (4) excited3) (1) charged, charged (2) accused (3) charge (4) accusation4) (1) admitted/acknowledge (2) admit/acknowledge (3) acknowledge (4) acknowledge(5) admittedTranslate with special attention to the different meanings of the same word or words which happen to have the same spelling.1)你能不能用简单的英语把它说明白一些?2)西班牙的雨量集中在平原地区。
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UNIT 1…identity is determined by genetic endowment, shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.…our identity is decided by our genes (inherited from parents), greatly influenced by environment we live in and affected by some unexpected events.First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.First, there is the independence in handling everyday life situations, which involves the ability to solve practical problems, such as how to spend money wisely, choosing their own clothes, and determining what they are going to do everyday.Fourth is freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father.’’Children often feel very guilty in relation to their parents because they think they have done something wrong; they are also anxious because they are always eager to please their parents; they sometimes feel unhappy because they think that their parents have not fair to them; they feel that they are responsible to their parents for everything they do; they are always afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly; all these may make them angry with their parents or make them resentful. These feelings reflect their emotional dependence on their parents. When they grow up, they usually strive for the freedom from such dependence.Perhaps one of the most stressful matters…as men or women.Perhaps young college students feel most distressed in finding out their sexual identity, including associating with the opposite sex and designing their future roles as men or women.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.When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.walking slowly and listlessly, looking very unhappy and disappointed“to drag one’s feet” is often used figuratively to mean”to delay deliberately”The local authorities are dragging their feet closing small coal mines.During the course I had come to realize that while my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father, who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow. (6)From the course I learnt, I had discovered that different from my expanding world and more opportunities; my father was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.These religious, morals, 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.I can no longer read the newspaper or watch a television newscast without seeing the people from other countries in a different light. in a different wayWhenever I read the newspaper or watch a television newscast, I will see the people from other countries in a different way from what I used to see.☻What he did made us to see him in a new light.☻In the light of the new evidence, we decide to take him to court. 出于，考虑到Not only are they being introduced to new people and new knowledge, but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information. (10)They are getting to know a lot of new people and learning new knowledge. They are also finding or learning new ways of arranging, organizing, analyzing or understanding information.UNIT 2It was a wonder to me they'd want to be seen with such a windbag.我不理解为什么他们愿意让人看见自己和这样一个话匣子在一起。
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Many key changes happen to college students during their college years.
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College is designed to be a time of changes for students.Threatening the changes may be, they contribute to young adults’ growth and maturity.College students are experiencing a lot.Not only are they being introduced to new people and new knowledge, but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information.They are also proudly growing in their understanding of themselves, others and the world.
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In fact, it may be heightened by their choice to pursue a college education.
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Lesson Two: Two KindsParaphrase1.I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me thebest.2.I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.3.The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.4.It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, asif this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.5.And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over.I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, andI wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.6.The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Phrases1.With almost no money down 几乎用不着交首付，几乎可以全部用贷款来买房2.The raised hopes and failed expectations 那些过高的希望和达不到的期盼3.Shorting out 短路4.The showpiece of our living room 我们起居室里的一件摆设5.Stiff-lipped smile 尴尬不自然的笑容6.Frighteningly strong 惊人地强大7.Follow their own mind 我行我素Sentence1.Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。
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Unit11.He ... was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow.He ... was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.1.however, these matters are questioned and in some cases rebelled against however, people often have doubts about these matters and sometimes oppose them1.people from a variety of ethnic backgroundspeople from many different races1.In addition to affirming personal values...Besides strengthening their personal values..3. Yet, there was always in me…… somewhere else.Paraphrase: However, I always felt that I should pay a visit to some other places.6. I wandered the world through books.Paraphrase: I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.13. One poem committed to memory……in my mind.Paraphrase: I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.15. Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.Paraphrase: Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.16. Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy. Paraphrase: Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.2）by the lure of what……normal childhood.Paraphrase: by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age21. But the best part of me……and bring them to life.Paraphrase: But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memory was always at home……22. In books I have traveled……but into my own.Paraphrase: While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.24. There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.Paraphrase: Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might be a newcomer, but was never a stranger.25. My real, true world. My perfect island.Paraphrase: To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.5) …as though she was starving and the book was bread.Paraphrase: Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food.27. Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion. Paraphrase: Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.30. I realized that while my satisfaction…… book it happened to be. Paraphrase: I realized that while my joy in reading had not weakened a bit, the world was just as blind or hostile to my joy as my girlfriends had been who had banged on our screen door or had begged me to put down the books which were called "stupid books" by them no matter what books they belonged to.39. Reading for pleasure,……from place to place.Paraphrase: some people did not believe that there was such a thing as reading for pleasure driven by astrong desire from the heart, They regarded it as an idle, aimless, meaningless occupation just like driving from place to place aimlessly on the subway.40. For many years I worked……of problems to be addressed.Paraphrase: I worked in the circle of newspaper for many years. For many journalists, reading in the latter half of the twentieth century was usually discussed as a lot of problems to be resolved.42. Had television and the movies supplanted books?Paraphrase: Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? orHad books been replaced by televisions and the movies?43. And in circles devoted to……surrounding discussion of reading.Paraphrase: When literary critics discussed the problem of reading in their circles, they sometimes showed the terrible attitude that reading was a right that only belonged to the elite, not to be shared with other people.53. We are the people who……went out of print.Paraphrase: We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.54. It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.Paraphrase: We still found each other like we did when we were young56. "Until I fea red I would lose it,…… To Kill a Mockingbird.Paraphrase: We often say that the starving know the value of food and the man dying of thirst knows the value of water.Unit21. I wandered the world through books.Paraphrase: I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.2. One poem committed to memory……in my mind.Paraphrase: I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.3. Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.Paraphrase: Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.4. Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy. Paraphrase: Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.5. by the lure of what……normal childhood.Paraphrase: by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age6. But the best part of me……and bring them to life.Paraphrase: But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memo ry was always at home……7. In books I have traveled……but into my own.Paraphrase: While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.8. There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.Paraphrase: Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might bea newcomer, but was never a stranger.9. My real, true world. My perfect island.Paraphrase: To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.10. …as though she was starving and the book was bread.Paraphrase: Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food.11. Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion. Paraphrase: Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.12. and come outside …… in their separateness.Paraphrase: and come into contact with the reality, who think themselves superior to others and feel shame to be friends with them.13. For many years I worked……of problems to be addressed.Paraphrase: I worked in the circle of newspaper for many years. For many journalists, reading in the latter half of the twentieth century was usually discussed as a lot of problems to be resolved.14. Reading for pleasure,……from place to place.Paraphrase: some people did not believe that there was such a thing as reading for pleasure driven by a strong desire from the heart, They regarded it as an idle, aimless, meaningless occupation just like driving from place to place aimlessly on the subway.15. Had television and the movies supplanted books?Paraphrase: Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? orHad books been replaced by televisions and the movies?16. And in circles devoted to……surrounding discussion of reading.Paraphrase: When literary critics discussed the problem of reading in their circles, they sometimes showed the terrible attitude that reading was a right that only belonged to the elite, not to be shared with other people. ( If we say some people have certain exclusive rights, it means these rights are exclusive to these people, not shared with anybody else. )17. We are the people who……went out of print.Paraphrase: We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.18. It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.Paraphrase: We still found each other like we did when we were youngUnit41.…done his business like a dog at the road side,……Paraphrase: He had emptied his bowels or passed water (urinated) like a dogat the roadside,……2.got scant thanks :Paraphrase: He seldom expressed his thanks to the people who had offered him some food3.They were not quite sure…… Now he was back at his home.Paraphrase: Some were mad about wealth; some thirsted for power; some were crazy about sex……4.they amused himParaphrase: These mad or insane people made him think that they were all ridiculous.5.He thought everybody lived……anxiously.Paraphrase: He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure.He argued that we should simplify our life.6.He was not the first to inhabit…out of principle.Paraphrase: He was not the first to live in a cask. But he was the first who ever did so because he wanted to, not by necessity, not beingforced to . He based it on aprinciple.7.But he taught chief by example.Paraphrase: Diogenes also taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting an example for others to learn from.8. They possess him. He is their slave.Paraphrase: All those material things dominate his life. He has to succumb tothem.9. In order to procure a quantity of……, his own independence.Paraphrase: In order to get a certain amount of material property or worldly possessions which actually have no value and will not last, he hasallowed himself to be controlled by these things and has given awayhis own independence which is the only thing that is true and canlast.10. Not so DiogenesParaphrase: However, Diogenes was not such a person.11. His life's aim was clear to him:…… and to imprint it with its true values.Paraphrase: Diogenes is using the analogy of" to restamp the currency" to meanthe change of human values. Human life, in his opinion, is like clean metal, but marked with false values, and it is his intention to wipe out the false markings and print true values on it.12. Diogenes answered "I'm trying to find a man."Paraphrase: He actually meant that all people he could see were only half-men.Here the word "man" means a true man by Diogenes' standard.13. And so he lived……Paraphrase: And that was how he lived……14. Only twenty, Alexander was far older and……restrained and chivalrous.Paraphrase: Alexander looked far older than a man of his age normally does, and was much wiserthan man of his age normally is.15. asmazed silence: ( transferred epithet) It is of course “ the people” who werea mazed, not “silence”Paraphrase: There were the people who were amazed, but remained silent. 16. But Alexander meant it ：Paraphrase: But Alexander really meant what he had said.17. He knew that of all men then alive……the beggar were free.Paraphrase: Alexander knew that of all the people alive at that time, he was free because he had absolute power and Diogenes was freebecause he didn’t need any power.Unit51．There was once a town……in harmony with its surroundings.Paraphrase: Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things seemed to exist peacefully with theirenvironment.2. Then some evil spell settled on the community:……but even among children. Paraphrase: Then, as by some evil power, disaster struck the community: strange diseases quickly struck down large numbers of children; the cattle andsheep became ill and died.3. On the mornings that had once throbbed with……there was now no sound….Paraphrase: The morning air used to vibrate with the singing of birds, but there was now no sound….4. … a harsh reality we all shall know.Paraphrase: … some serious consequence that we all have to face.5. … the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation…by the environment. Paraphrase: … the physical features and habits of the living things on earth have beenGreatly shaped by their surroundings.6. … but it has changed in character.Paraphrase: … but the nature of this power to alter the environment has changed.7.This pollution is for the most irrecoverable.Paraphrase: In most case, the polluted air, soil, rivers and the sea cannot be restored to their original natural state.8.Or they pass mysteriously……from once pure wells.Paraphrase: Or they get deeper into underground streams, undergosome chemical processes somewhere, and then become new substancesthat contaminate wells, kill plants and make cattles as well aspeople that drink the water sick.9.Given time---time not in years……a balance has been reached.Paraphrase: When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes thousands ofyears for life to be in harmony with their modified world again.10.B ut in the modern world there is no time.Paraphrase: But in the modern world when man’s power to tamper with nature has become so great and he is so eager to change nature forshort-term benefits, he does not think of the long-term interestof his own species.11.T he rapidity of change follows…… deliberate pace of nature.Paraphrase: Man is changing nature rapidly while nature adjusts to the changes slowly.Therefore adjustment can never keep up with change, and a new balancebetween living things and their environment can hardly be reached.12.R adiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.Paraphrase: In the past, radiation was only sent out from radioactive substances in certain rocks; today man creates such harmful raysby causing the nucleus of the atom of such substances as radiumto split13.T he chemicals are the synthetic c reation of man’s tampering with the atom.Paraphrase: Nature dose not produce such things as chemicals. Chemicals are man-made and the results of man’s creative power.14.A nd even this,……in an endless stream;….Paraphrase: It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible,it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously beingcreated and produced.15.…find their way into actual use:Paraphrase: …manage to enter the mar ket and be sold to farmers.16.d escribed as “ pests”Paraphrase: referred to as destructive insects17.…all this though the intended target……weeds or insects.Paraphrase: …all these serious consequences come about perhaps just because man wants to destroy a few weeds or insects.18.C an anyone believe it is possible……but “ biocides”.Paraphrase: Such number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surelly make it unfit for all living things. (This is a rehtoricalquestion )19.T hus the chemical war is never won,……in its violent crossfire.Paraphrase: Therefore, this fight between man and pests wil never come to an end, and all living things are affected by or fall victom to thischemical war.20.b rought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind…Paraphrase: brought the threat of disease and death even to huamn beings themselves…21.N ature has introduced……checks and balances.Paraphrase: Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself.(In otherwords, when the population of one species is too big/ small, Naturehas a way of making it decrease/ increase.)22.S uch a system set the stage for……insect population.Paraphrase: Such a way of farming creates favorable conditions for the rapid increase of particular insects.23.I n new territory,……in its native land,…Paraphrase: In new territory, since there are no natural enemies as those that did not allow it to multiply or grow too rapidly in their native land,……24.T hus it is no accident that ……are intr oduced species.Paraphrase: That’s why the most trouble-making insects in this country are not native but introduced, which is not accidental at all.25.t he explosive power of outbreaks and new invasionsParaphrase: the power of insects to multiply/breed in large numbers suddenly and quickly and their power to invade new territories26.W e have subjected enormous numbers of people to……without their knowledge.Paraphrase: By spraying insecticides on food grains, vegetables and fruit, we have caused large number of people to absorb harmful chemicalswithout asking whether they would like to do so and often withouttheir knowing it.Unit81.… for children who were now gray with age.Paraphrase: … for children who now became old people with gray hair.2. Through all this she lay in bed but moved across time.Paraphrase: While doing all this job, she lay in bed but her mind wandered across the past time.3.… traveling among the dead decades…the gift of physical science.Paraphrase: …traveling among the past decades mentally so quickly and easilythat no physical science would be able to manage to do it.4.She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure ……and promptly dismissed it. Paraphrase: She looked steadily at me and could not recognize me because I was much too big for the son in her memory. She simply couldnot imagine the distant future whenher little Russel would be that tall and big. Therefore sheimmediately put that thought out of her mind.5. That day she was a young cou ntry wife…… to be her father.Paraphrase: That day she was a young country wife in the backyard behind the apple orchard, from which she could see the hazy blue Virginiamountains. She could not associate this stranger old enough tobe her father with her son who was only as tall as two feet fromthe floor at that time.6. It was an awkward question with which to be awakened.Paraphrase: I was awakened so early in the morning by such an awkwardquestion.7. “I’m being buried today,” ……announcing an important social event.Paraphrase: “I’m going to be buried today.” she said quickly, as if announcing an important social event.8.I thought of a doll with huge, fierce eyes.Paraphrase: Her small and delicate figure reminded me of a doll with very big but intense eyes.9. There had always been a fierceness in her.Paraphrase: Whatever she did, she did it determinedly, with great andunyielding effort.10. It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issuedan opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions.Paraphrase: This character trait of her was shown when she expressed an opinion.She would stick out her chin in an angry and defiant air.Whenever she had something to say, she would say it, neverafraid of speaking her mind out.11. “It’s not always good policy……I used to caution her.Paraphrase: “It’s not always wise to tell people your opinions.” I used to warn her.11.“If they don’t like it, that’s too bad,”……“because that’s the way I am.”Paraphrase : “If they don’t like the way I talk, I can do nothing about it.”That was her constant answer because it was her usual way ofdealing with sb or something.12.She had hurled herself at life……always on the run.Paraphrase: Whatever she did (housework, raising children, etc.), she did it with great effort and speed, so she seemed to be alwaysrunning.13. determined on a beheading that would put dinner in the potParaphrase: determined to kill a chicken and cook it for dinner14. For a time I could not accept the inevitable.Paraphrase: For a period of time I could hardly believe such a strong and formidable person as my mother had become a helpless invalid, andI simply couldn’t face this fact.15. As I sat by her bed, my impulse was to argue her back to reality.Paraphrase: When I sat by her hospital bed, I had a strong desire to get her to face her present conditions and not to think at length about herglories in the past.16. “Russell’s way out west,” she advised me.Paraphrase: “ Russell’s not around. He’s far away in the west,” she told me.17. So it went until a doctor came by……Then a surprise.Paraphrase: The conversation went on like this until a doctor came by to giveher one of those oral quizzes that the medical workers usuallyapply to the patients like her. She failed this oral quiz, orgave wrong answers or answered none of the quiz questions.However, her answer to one of the questions surprised all ofus.18.I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.Paraphrase: I hold that we have no reason to forget the plot of GunpowderTreason.19.Then doctors diagnosed an hopeless senility or hardening of thearteries.Paraphrase: Then doctors concluded that my mother was behaving in a confused way simply because she was getting old, or her arteries werebecoming hard.It was an inevitable consequence of aging, and theycould do little about it.20. For ten years or more the ferocity……that too much age had brought her.Paraphrase: Throughout her life, Russell Baker’s mother had fiercely fought numerous difficulties she encountered. About ten years or more ago,she began to suffer physical and psychological problems of aging,which she couldn’t tackle, and she became angry with this situation.20.Now, after the last bad fall, she……in which she ws needed.Paraphrase: Now, after her last bad fall, she seemed to have found a way of escaping from her present life by reminiscing her good, old dayswhen she was loved and needed.21.…I…had written herwith some banal advice……with her miseries.Paraphrase: In a letter I had advised her to make a special effort toappreciate good things in her life and not to worry those who cameto see her by complaining about her unhappiness and suffering.22. I suppose what it really amounted to was a th reat that…….Paraphrase: I think this “advice” was actually a warning that…….23. This one was written out of a childish faith……to recharge a flagging spirit.Paraphrase: I wrote this letter naively believing that parents’ strength would never drain away, and aging as well as declining health could beovercome by a strong will, and that words of encouragement wouldfill a tired and weak person with strength and energy again. 24. She wrote back in an unusually cheey vein……that she was mending her way. Paraphrase: She answered the letter cheerfully, which was very unusual. I think she wanted to show that she was acting on my advice and wasimproving.25. I soon stopped trying to argue her back……into the past.Paraphrase: Soon I stopped trying to persuade her to accept what I considered the real world and tried to help her to recall those marvellousmoments of happy life in the past.26.……and the future stretched before it in beams of crystal sunlight.Paraphrase: ……and the bright future spread out or extended before the US./ The US would have boundless prospects.27.……if I had been able to step into my mother’s time machine.Paraphrase: ……if I had been able to travel to all those past times together withmy mother.28. A world had lived and died,……the w orld of the pharaohs.Paraphrase: The world my mother lived in when she was young was now past.Though I was closely related to that world , I knew as little aboutit as I knew about the ancient Egypt.29. The orbits of her mind touched the present interrogators for more than amoment.Paraphrase: She could hardly respond relevantly to questions put to her at present because her mind constantly wandering to certain pastphases of her life.30. Sitting at her bedside, forever out of touch with her……Paraphrase: Although I was sitting at her bedside, very close to her physically,I never knew what she was thinking or talking about .31. ……when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.Paraphrase: ……when they become old and want to learn about their parents’past, both theirparents are gone.32. If a parent does lift the curtain a bit,…… how much harder life was in the olddays.Paraphrase: If a parent tells the children something about his or her past, it often turns out to be a moral lesson about how life was for him orher, which does not make sense to the children.34. …… a son had offened me with an inadequate report card.Paraphrase: ……a son had made me angr y because his report card showed that he had not done very well at school.35. ……he gazed at me with an expression……how it was in your day, Dad.”Paraphrase: ……he looked at his father steadily, looking calm, seemingly ready to accept what his father wou ld say though he knew he wouldn’t beconvinced. The boy knew what was coming. He hated being lecturedon, but he knew there was nothing he could do about it. He had tolet it happen. So he had a look of resignation that was hard todescribe.36. Instinctively, I wanted to break free, and cease being a creature defined byher time.Paraphrase: When my mother was young, I was her future. But I didn’t like it.I wanted to be free and independent. I wanted to live my own lifeand did not to live my life by my mother’s standards.37. These hopeless end-of-the-line visits with my mother……my own past so carelessly.Paraphrase：Those last visits made me wish I had valued my past more, and had paid more attention to the world she represented. (The visits werehopeless because they did not mean anything to my mother. She wasnot going to recover. And she did not even know I was there.)38. We all come from the past, …… from diaper to shroud.Paraphrase: We all come from the past, and children ought to know what made them what they are today. They ought to know that life is a continuousprocess. Humanity is lke a cord made of many people starting from along time past continuing to the present day. We should all cherish ourroots, our heritage.Unit91.In some respects, globalization is merely a trendy word for an old process.Paraphrase: To some extent, globalization is not new. The world has always been in the process of market expansion. What is new is the term"globalization", which became fashionable only recently.2.Europeans saw economic unification as an antidote to deadly nationalism.Paraphrase: Europeans regarded economic unification as a way to prevent nationalism.3. A decade later, even after Asia's 1997-98 financial crisis, private capital flowsdwarf governmental flows.Paraphrase：Ten years later, even after Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, private capital flows are still greater in number than governmentalcapital flows.4. The recent takeover struggle between British and German wireless giants is exceptional only for its size and bitterness.Paraphrase: The only difference between the recent takeover struggle between British and German radio giants and other cases is that this takeoveris much bigger and a lot more bitter.5. Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global.Paraphrase: The reason for the merger boom is that more and more business people now believe that many markets have truly become global. They are nolonger producing just for the people in their own country. They want tocombine or merge with others to become multinational companies. 6. In Europe, the relentless pursuit of the single market is one indicator. This reflects a widespread recognition that European companies will be hard-pressed to compete in global markets if their local operations are hamstrung by fragmented national markets.Paraphrase：In Europe, the persistent and unremitting effort to turn all countries on the continent into a single market shows that there is a generalagreement that if the European market remains divided into many smallparts behind national borders, their companies will not be able tocompete in the international market.7. Among poorer countries, the best sign of support is the clamor to get into the World Trade Organization ... And 32 are seeking membership. Paraphrase: Many poorer countries want to join the World Trade Organization. This shows that they support globalization.8. Despite its financial crisis, rapid trade expansion and economic growth sharply cut the number of the desperately poor.Paraphrase: In spite of the financial crisis, rapid increase of trade and economic growth drastically reduced the number of the very poor people.9.Meanwhile, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa--whose embrace of theworld economy has been late or limited--fared much less well.Paraphrase: Meanwhile, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, whose integration with the world economy has been late and limited, werenot so lucky.10. .... two problems could neutralize its potential benefits.Paraphrase: … two problems could offset the possible benefits11. The global economy may be prone to harsher boom-bust cycles than nationaleconomies individually.Paraphrase: Once integrated with the world market, nations will naturally be more vulnerable to the fluctuations of the world economy. Thecapital flows in and out a country, for example, can create a boomor bust very quickly and with much harsher effects.12. The Asian financial crisis raised questions on both counts.Paraphrase：The Asian financial crisis brought these two questions to people's attention: investment funds were not well used and trade flowsbecame too lopsided.13. The ensuing spending boom in turn aided Europe, Japan, and the United Statesby increasing imports from them.Paraphrase: The growth in spending that followed helped Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.14. .... it became apparent that as a result of "crony capitalism", inept government policies and excess optimism, much of the investment had been wasted on unneeded factories, office buildings and apartments.Paraphrase: It became clear that because of the corruption in those countries。
现代大学英语精读3(第二版)Unit4课后答案
Unit 4Preview2.Do the following exercises.1.Paraphrase the following sentences.1.He had opened his eyes when the sun rose,scratched (because he had an itch on the skin), relieved himself like a dog at the roadside…Notice the euphemism “done his business.”The author could not have used the normal expression”used the toilet”because there was no toilet.2.Live simply and freely.Pay no attention to conventions, which are unnatural and useless. Avoid or get rid of all those unnecessary things that make our life complicated and wasteful…3.They own and control him. He is their slave. In order to get some goods that have no true value and will be useless very soon, he has sold the only true, lasting good, his own independence.4.He knew very well what he lived for:it was to change people’s values, to make them know the true meaning of life…5.He was the most popular/important/successful person at this particular moment or his century…2.Translate the words in bold type.1.我们那调皮的猫把我们的新沙发套都抓破了。
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1…identity is determined by genetic endowment…by chance events :Who we are is determined by three things: First, our genes,; second, environment, and third, opportunities.2.First, there is functional independence, which involves the...and determining their daily agenda : First, there is the ability to solve practical problems, for example, how to spend money wisely, how to choose their own clothes, and also involved how to make a list of what they are going to do everyday.3.Fourth is freedom from” excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, ...the mother and father” : Fourthly, the overdue feelings of guilt, worry, disbelief, obligation, restriction, complaint and rage reflect their emotional dependence on their parents, which should be got rid of to get the freedom.1.It was a wonder to me they’d want to be seen with such a windbag :It is a strange thing to me, why these noble men would stay with such a talkative person like him.2. An orderly riding by had told him, because the orderly knew how thick he was with Grant. :An officer’s message who passed by on horse told him that they had defeated enemy because he knew how close my father was with Grant.3. ”Oh,” she said, “it’s all right. Life is never dull when my man is about.”:“oh,” she said it’s not bad, life is never boring when my husband is around.4. For the first time I knew that I was the son of my father. He was a story teller as I was to be. : But the first time in my life I knew that I was like my father, he was a story teller that was what I was be become later.1.I am still just as ignorant for all your telling me :Though you have told me a lot, I still don’t know the names of the flowers.2.But now, as he spoke, that memory faded. His was the truer :But now, as he spoke, the memory of the ridiculous scene gradually disappeared. His memory seemed to be truer; they did have a good time that afternoon.3.And in the warmth, as it were, another memory unfolded :Another memory seemed to be stirred with the word of ”warmth”4.He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecision :He had become more mature than the younger days, when he used to be full of unpractical dreams and was unclear about his future career.5.Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life :Now he looked like a man who has made a successful career.6.As he spoke,…she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long…stare upon those places : When he spoke, she felt the long cherished wish in her heart began to revive, and she waited for this longingly and anxiously.7.Only I did desire, eventually, to turn into a magic…those lands you longed to see :Finally, the only thing I really wanted was to turn into a magic carpet and carry you wherever you urged to see.1.He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched…like a dog at the roadside,… :In the morning he woke up with the sun rising, scratched, emptied his bowels or passed water like a dog at the roadside…2.Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances.: One should live without the conventions of society, since these are not genuine and fake, and one should also avoid the complexities and luxurious…3.They possess him. He is their slave…lasting good, his own independence :They control him. He is subject to them. In order to pursue a certain mount of material properties or worldly possessions which actually have no value and will not last, he has allowed himself to be controlled by these things and has given away his own independence which is the only thing that is true and can last.4.His life’s aim was clear to him: it was” to restamp the currency”…it with its true values :He has a definite living goal: it was” to restamp the currency”: human life is like a clean metal marked with false values, so his responsibility is to wipe out the old false marks and print true values on it.5.He was the man of the hour, of the century,… :He was the most important, powerful, or talked about the person of the time.1.onsidering the whole span of earthly time…has been relatively slight :Thinking of the long history of life on earth, the contrary effect of living thing: actually affect their environment has been insignificant as the compared with that of the environment on plant and animals.2.In this now universal contamination of the environment…the very nature of the world :In this now popular pollution of the environment, chemicals, along with radiation, are the most severely factors in changing the nature of the world.3.Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with…no counterparts in nature : Today man creates radiation by causing the nucleus of the atom of such substance as radium to split. The chemicals are manmade and the result of man’s creative power, it’s not produced by nature itself.4.And even this, were it by some miracle possible, would be futile :It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible, it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously being created and produced.5.These chemicals are now applied almost universally…leaves with a deadly film :Now these chemicals are almost popularly used in farms, gardens, forests, and homes, to kill the birds and fish, to cover the leaves with a thin layer of death-causing chemicals.6.They should not be called” insecticides,” but “biocides.” :As the chemicals destroy ”pests”as well as other living things, they should not be called ”insecticides”, but “biocides”.7.We have subjected enormous numbers of people…without their knowledge :By spraying insecticides on food grains, vegetables and fruit, we have caused large numbers of people to absorb take in harmful chemicals without asking whether they would like it or nor and often without their knowing it.1.All re important and must be reasonably satisfied…fulfill our biological destiny :All these basic needs are important and should be fulfilled reasonably if we are to achieve fate. 2.I italicize the need for power because…our lives seems uniquely human :The reason for me to italicize the need for power is that…the need for us to pursue power in our everyday life seems exclusively human.3.In fact, if it were not for the need for power,…is for the sake of power :In fact, without the need for power, our economy cannot sustain itself, as everything that we bought and sold, except for the basic necessities, is used to pursue for power.4.That their teachings have been largely accepted…in getting their message across :The fact that what they propagate is obviously served for their own interests, while this propaganda has been widely accepted, is evidence on how effective their propaganda machine is.5.Lower animals, whose behavior is essentially…are not involved with fun :As lower animals’ behaviors are mainly inborn and without ability of learning, they cannot feel the fun.6.My guess is that we will survive in direct proportion to how much we can learn :I suppose that the extent that we learn relates directly to our survivals.7.Amonmtomous task is always boring unless…when he was painting the fence :The tedious work will bore us if we cannot learn something in repeating our tasks, or make the thing we are doing competitive and social, which is just the case in Tom Sawyer’s painting the fence1.I’ve never heard the old battlefields like…and re-enact what happened there :I’ve never heard the old battlefields like Gettysburg and Chickamauga which asking me to walk over them and act what happened there again.2.Outnumbered and almost encircled, Lee considered his dwindling options :Enemies are outnumbered and we are almost encircled, lee considered his lessening choices.3,Grant, who had outraced his baggage wagon…tucked in muddy boots :Grant walked in front of his baggage wagon wearing his customary field uniform, his trousers were full of mud and were put into his muddy boots.4.Lee said after reading the terms, which,…simply let them all go home :After reading the terms, lee said these terms are not for hounding the enemy with reprisals but to let them all go home.5.When word of the surrender reached the nearby…cannon firing. Grant put an end to it :When news of e reached the union headquarters nearby it initiated a spree of cannon firing to celebrate Grant had put an end to the war.。
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Unit 1 Text ⅠThinking as a HobbyParaphrases of the Text1.The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural.3The leopard symbolizes Nature,which stands for all animal needs or desires.美洲豹象征着自然,它在那里显得很自然而已;2.Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left meout.15Everybody, except me ,is born with the ability to thin大自然赋予其余的所有的人第六感觉却独独漏掉了我;3.You could hear the wind trapped in the cavern of his chest and struggling with allthe unnatural impediments. His body would reel with shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomed visitation.19你能听到风被他的胸腔堵住,遇到障碍物艰难前进发出的声音;他的身体因为不习惯这样的感觉而摇摇晃晃,脸色变得惨白;4.In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible andirresistible spring in his neck.20Mr. Houghton’s deeds told me that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he would feel a strong urge to turn his head and look at the girls.在这种情况下,我认为他不是受思想,而是受他后颈里某个看不到却无法抗拒的发条的控制;5.Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen’s golf, as honest as mostpolitician’s intentions, or to come near my own preoccupation - as coherent as most books that get written.23This ironical sentence shows that the author not only considers those people incompetent,dishonest and incoherent but also despises most businessmen, distrust most politicians and dislikes most publications.从技术上而言,它娴熟如同商人玩高尔夫,诚实如同政客的意图,或者——更接近我自己的领域——有条理如同大多数写出来的书;6.We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered and surrounded.24The Grade 3 thinkers usually represent the great majority, so we has to respect them because we are surrounded by them.我们最好尊重他们,因为我们处于他们的包围之中,势单力薄;7.Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.24 The author thinks that just like cows always eat the grass of the same side of a hill, it is probably human nature to enjoy agreement because it seems to bring peace, security, comfort and harmony.人是一种爱群居的动物,就象牛喜欢沿着山坡的同一条道路吃草一样喜爱共识;8.I slid my arm round her waist and murmured breathlessly that if we were countingheads, the Buddhists were the boys for my money. She fled. The combination of my arm and those countless Buddhists was too much for her.27我伸手揽过她的腰屏住呼吸低声说,如果算人数我该捐钱给佛教徒;露丝的确是为我好,因为我人这么好;但是我的手臂加上那些数不胜数的佛教徒实在让她无法忍受了;9.It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and stilldo. But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them.32What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. My grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances.又是露丝的问题;我曾有一些很要好的朋友站在我这边,他们现在仍然站在我这边;但是我的熟人都不见了,带着他们的女孩子消失了;Unit 2 Text ⅠSpring SowingParaphrases of the Text1....sleep and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day of their first springsowing as man and wife.3Although they were still not fully awake, the young couple was already greatly excited, because that day was the first day of their first spring sowing since getting married.有些困乏,也很兴奋,因为这是他们作为夫妇第一个春播的第一天;2.But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected loved, fearedand prepared for made them dejected.3The couple had been looking forward to and preparing for this spring planting for a long time. But now that the day had finally arrived, strangely, they felt somehow a bit dejected, unhappy, sad, or depressed.但是随着春播的迫近,这一他们为之期待许久,热爱,害怕和准备的大事的临近,他们反而有些沮丧;3.Mary, with her shrewd woman’s mind, thought of as many things as there are in lifeas a woman would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating.3Mary, like all sharp and smart women, thought of everything that was going to happen in the rest of her life. At that time, she had the complex thoughts of a woman at the first crucial moment of her marriage. She was filled with joy and anxiety and was bothered by many thoughts.玛丽用她精明的女性的思维,思考着一个女人在新婚生活中所得到的快乐和生活中的琐事;4.Martin fell over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he swore and said that aman would be better off dead than (4)It would be better for him to die than tripped over a basket.马丁再昏暗的谷仓中被一只篮子绊倒了;5.And somehow, as they embraced,all their irritation and sleepiness left them. Andthey stood there embracing until at last Martin pushed her from him with pretended roughness and said:“Come, come, girl, it will be sunset before we begin at this rate.”4All the anger, unhappiness and drowsiness melted away with their hug. They remained in each others arms until finally Martin pushed her away, with pretended roughness.他们就这样拥抱着,直到最后马丁推开了玛丽,并假装强硬的说道：“来吧,快点,姑娘,再这样下去当我们开始时太阳都要下山了;”6....as they walked silently...through the little hamlet, there was not a soul about.5 When they walked silently through the small village, they saw not a single person around.当他们穿着生皮鞋穿过小村庄时,那还没有其他人;7.And they both looked back at the little cluster of cabins that was the center of theirworld, with throbbing hearts. For the joy of spring had now taken complete hold of them.5他们带着悸动的心跳同时回头看看村庄中相似的小屋,那就是他们生活的世界的中心;春播的喜悦已经紧紧地包裹住了他们;8.Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would theytake us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger12If people should see us like this with your arm around my waist, what would they think of us They were sure to regard us as a pair of good-for-nothings, people who are unable to endure hardships and foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of hunger.“想想如果有人看到我们在春播的土地上这样,他们只会把我们当成一对没用、软弱、没脑子的会被饿死的傻瓜,呼”9.She became suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the peasant’s slave master,which would keep her chained to hard work and poverty all her life until she would sink again into its bosom.13She became afraid of the earth because it was going to force her to work like a slave and force her to struggle against poverty all her life until she died and was buried in it.10.It overpowered that other feeling of dread that had been with her during themorning.17But when she sat and looked around the village, the fields and the people, a strange feeling of happiness arose in her. The feeling of joy drove away the feeling of terror that she had had in the morning.11.The strong smell of the upturned earth acted like a drug on their nerves.2012.All her dissatisfaction and weariness vanish from Mary’s mind with the deliciousfeeling of comfort that overcame her at having done this work with her husband.34Unit 3 Text ⅠGroundless BeliefsParaphrases of the Text1.They rest upon mere tradition, or on somebody’s bare assertion unsupported byeven a show of proof (1)They are only based on tradition, or on somebody’s assertion, but are not supported even by the least amount of proof.这些说法仅仅根据传统,或者根据某人毫无证据的断言……2.But if the staunchest Roman Catholic and the staunchest Presbyterian had beenexchanged when infants,and if they had been brought up with home and all other influences reversed, we can had very little doubt what the result would have been.3 If they were exchanged when they were infants and brought up different homes and under different influences, then the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, vice versa. This shows that our beliefs are largely influenced by surroundings. 不过,如果在婴儿时期把最虔诚的罗马天主教徒和长老会教义信徒予以交换,然后使他们在相反的家庭与影响下长大,所能得出的结果是毋庸置疑的;3.It is consistent with all our knowledge of psychology to conclude that each wouldhave grown up holding exactly the opposite beliefs to those he holds now (3)我们可以根据所掌握的心理学知识得出结论,两人长大后会持有与现在恰好相反的观点……4.Of course we do not cease, when we cease to be children, to adopt new reliefs onmere suggestion.4Of course it does not mean that when we grow up we no longer have these mistaken beliefs. We are still easy and often willing victims of newspapers and advertising.当然,我们长大后也不会停止仅仅根据建议接受新观点;5.We should remember that the whole history of the development of human thoughthas been full of cases of such “obvious truths” breaking down when examined in the light of increasing knowledge and reason.8我们应该记住,在人类思想发展的整个历史过程中充满了这种“明显的真理”现象,经过人类不断增长的知识与理性的检验,这些“真理”不攻自破;6.The age-long struggle of the greatest intellects in the world to shake off thatassumption is one of the marvels of history.9世界上最伟大的学者们经过长期斗争否定了这一假设,这也是人类历史上的一大奇迹;7.Many modern persons find it very difficult to credit the fact that men can even havesupposed otherwise.10许多现代人发现很难相信人们曾有过另一种假设;8.We adopt and cling to some beliefs because—or partly because—it “pays” us to doso. But, as a rule, the person concerned is about the last person in the world to be able to recognize this in himself.14Peoples who hold those beliefs through self-interest usually will not admit this. They usually try to cloak themselves with beautiful altruistic words.我们之所以接受并且坚持某些观点的原因是——或者部分原因是——这样做对我们“有好处”;9.There is many a man who is unconsciously compelled to cling to a belief because heis a “somebody”in some circle—and if he were to abandon that belief, he would find himself nobody at all.15Many people are forced to hold a belief because he has become an important person in his group. If he gave up that belief, he would turn insignificant at once.许多人无意识地被迫坚持某种观点,因为他是某个圈子里的“重要人物”——如果他放弃这一观点,就会成为无足轻重的小人物;10.Somewhat similar is the acceptance of an opinion through the desire—probably notrecognized by the person concerned—to justify his own nature, his own position, or his own behaviour.17另一种类似的情况是有些人出于证明自己的性格、立场或行为的愿望而接受某一种观点,也许当事人不承认这一点;Unit 4 Text ⅠLions and Tigers and BearsParaphrases of the Text1.Of course, anybody who knows anything about New Y ork knows the city’s essentialplatitude --- that you don’t wander around Central Park at night --- and in that, needless to say, was the appeal; it was the thing you don’t do.1Everybody who knows New York knows the widely discussed topic there, that is, you should not wander in Central Park at night because it’s dangerous. However, precisely because of the risk, there are always people attracted to do so. They just wish to do what people normally don’t do.当然,了解纽约的人都知道关于这座城市老生常谈的话题——夜里不能在中央公园闲逛——而这,不用说,正是吸引力所在：它是你平常不会做得事情;2.So far , so normal, and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeareproduction anywhere in America, except in one respect (3)And tonight’s performance could be any outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s play one regularly finds in summer in America. There was only one difference.到目前为止,一切还算正常,这和美国任何地方在室外上演的莎士比亚夏令剧目没什么不同,除了一点：3....the rotating red light was like a campfire in the wild, warning what’s out there tostay away.3旋转着的红色警灯就像野外的篝火,警告四周存在的威胁不要靠近;4.I got my bearings.6 I found where i was. 我终于认清了方向;5.The park was to be strolled through, enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, like a walkinside a painting.7人们漫步于公园,享受美的体验,犹如走进一幅油画中一样;6.I was emboldened by the realization: I was no longer afraid; I was frightening.9意识到这点,我的胆子就大了起来：我不再害怕了,令人害怕的是我;7.The park is now framed, enveloped even, by the city, but there was no escaping therecognition that the city—contrived, man-made, glaring obtrusive, consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy--- was very beautiful.12But there was no denying the fact you have to admit that the city was very beautiful, although it was not a natural kind of beauty, it was artificial and showy, and it used up a great amount of water and energy.公园现在被镶嵌在城市中,甚至被城市包裹,但不可否认的是这座城市——这座经过雕琢的、人工打造的、灯火辉煌8.And then, nature finding herself unable to resist, it started to pour.24Unit 9 Text ⅠThe Damned Human RaceParaphrases of the Text1.That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucialtest of actual experiment, and have adopted it or rejected it according to the result.para.2In other words, I have put every theory or hypothesis there is to the decisive test of actual experiment.也就是说,通过实验,我对每一种假设都进行了检测,并根据实验结果采纳或者否定了这一假设;2.I was aware that … have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out oftheir poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. para.4I knew that many man who have more money than they can ever use have shown a maddesire to get more, and they have not ed to cheat poor people and their few saving in order to y that desire.我意识到,许多人虽然聚敛了不计其数的财富,然而他们仍然渴望更多,并且从无知又无助的人身上肆无忌惮地夺取微薄的财富,以便来平息心中的愿望;3.Men keep harems but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which theother sex were allowed no hand in making. para.6人妻妾成群,只是依靠暴力,由暴力的法律来授予特权;然而女性是无权参与制定这些法律的;4.He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive arehe and his mates to indecent suggestion. para.8他甚至不会裸露着乳房和屁股走进卧室,但他和同伴对下流的暗示又十分敏感;5.No--- Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it --- or hasoccasion to. para.8No, man is not the only animal that laughs, but it is true that man is the animal that blushes. He is the only animal that does it or has the need to.不——人是会脸红的动物;是唯一会脸红的动物——或者说有必要脸红;6.Man---when he is King John, with a nephew to render untroublesome, he uses ared-hot iron; para.9In the case of King John who wanted to get rid of his nephew he used a red-hot iron to torture him.当他作为约翰国王的时候,为了除掉侄子,他会用烧红的烙铁来折磨他；7.The cat is moderate---unhumanly moderate, she only scares the mouse, she does nothurt it; she doesn’t dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails---man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal of itand puts it out of its trouble. para.9猫是适度的——与人不同的是它在吓唬老鼠,并不去伤害它;它不去挖老鼠的眼睛,剥它的皮,或者把木条钉进它的指甲里——像人一样;在它戏弄玩老鼠之后,他、便突然把它当饭吃了,使它脱离痛苦;8.He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the othernations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries…para.13It is claimed that man is the only Patriot. Only man is capable of such noble sentiment. But what does it mean It simply means that he keeps himself away from others, occupies a piece of land, calls it his own country, and thinks that he is better than others, then he puts up a flag and gathers together a group of killers and steals land from others.他打着国旗,在自己的国度里自诩与众不同,并嘲笑其他国家;他不惜花费重金,屯兵无数,就是为了吞噬大片他人的国土9.He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the onlyanimal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts h is throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. para.14In trying to make it easy for his brother to find happiness and go to heaven, he has turned the world into a graveyard he has caused the death of millions around the world in converting them to his religion人是唯一信仰宗教的的动物;他是唯一信奉正统宗教——几种宗教的动物,也是唯一爱邻居就像爱自己一样的动物,如果邻居的神学理论不纯正,人就割断她的喉咙;他把全球变成了一个大墓地,千方百计为他的兄弟谋求幸福,为其上天堂铺平道路;10.The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be leftout, in the Hereafter. I wonder why It seems questionable taste. para.14And we are told that they will not be allowed to go to the next world heaven. I wonder why It seems to show poor taste to leave out the higher animal and allow only human beings to go to heaven.高级动物没有宗教信仰;我们被告知,它们死后将被排除在天堂之外;我不明白这是为什么看来这是值得怀疑的选择标准;Unit 11 Text ⅠSoldier’s HeartParaphrases of the Text1.There is a brief purring sound, then a rhythmic drumming. para.2There is the sound of the plane dropping bombs or guns firing shells rhythmically.2.…it was the course for upper division students known as the colloquium. para.43.I don’t suppose many of our soldiers in the Gulf War have suffered from it --- theywere spared a long engagement. para.74.Two of the guards were the kind Chekhov describes in “Ward No.6” para.95.Once he waggled the stump under my face with a sly smile. This, he gave me tounderstand, was why he had been excused from military service. para.9Once he waved what remained of his trigger finger in front of me with a tricky smile. By doing this, he made me believe that this the cutting of his finger was the reason why he was able to escape being drafted into the army.6.Speaking only for myself, I think they brought me out of the fog in which I had beenwalking. para.10As far as I’m concerned, I think the shock treatment was effective and it helped me to regain my senses and become normal.7.I believe with Shakespeare that there are more thinkgs in heaven and earth than aredreamed of in the philosophy of those who serve the world, and who administer its institutions, and grow rich. para.11I agree with what Shakespeare says, that is there are more important things in heaven and in the world, things that are missing in the philosophy of the rich and powerful, things that these people have never dreamed of.8.The men and women I worked with in universities were pale and unreal incomparison. They were hollow and filled with words. para.22Compare to the people with whom I fought side by side during the war, the people I worked with in universities were pale and unreal. They talked a lot but their words were empty and meaningless because they had not experienced real life.9.They were deaf to the music. para.27My war experience gave me poetry and music. I would never get tired of writing about it. But they just didn’t care to know what happened in the war.。
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大学英语英语专业精读3paraphrase1.When I was 12 years old, my family moved to England, which was the forth major move in my short time.2.However, as I loved nature, I was really very happy to enjoy the endless pieces of farms and woods around our house.3.I didn’t try to make many friends because in that way I didn’t have to give up my friendship the next time I had to move.4.I could even hear my own breathing, and even the lightest movement of any bird or animal in the wood could be heard throughout this paradise.5.Imove quietly and carefully so that I would no alarm any bird which might loudly warn other animals in the woods to hide.6.Soon I saw a small brick cottage shining with a pink color in the sun that was moving to the west.7.I began to know much about the natural history, too much of a boy of my age.8.When people get to know each other really well, sometimes they don’t notice physical changes. The boy didn’t see that his friend,the old lady, was getting weaker and weaker because all the time he was talking to her heart rather than to her face.9.My mother was looking at me with a strange gentleness because she wanted to break the news gently so that I would not take ittoo hard.10.I learn a lot of knowledge, taught by nature itself, about the things I can see-the birds, insects, trees, and flowers, and the things Icannot see-ideas, scientific laws and principles. I also learn alot about the things that change, including life itself, as well as the things that are changeless like friendship, love and many basic values.1.…went back to his seat…His face turned redder because he made such an effort.2. He was the kind of man who liked to talk and enjoyed company, and had guessed that what he did would invariably start a conversation.3. These thoughts were moving around quickly in Mr. Harraby-Ribston’s mind, and they took away his hope that his action would give him an interesting conversation, which he thought he deserved.4. For all his appearance of indifference, the sight of a well-to-do gentleman pitching a suitcase from the window of a moving train had surprised him very much.Although he pretended to be indifferent, he was rather shocked when he saw a wealthy gentleman throwing a suitcase out of the window of a moving train.5. The fellow was obviously counting on him for a violent reaction, and so Mr. Crowther made a point of not reacting.The chap was clearly expecting him to react violently, and therefore Mr. Crowther deliberately decided not to react, because he did not want to give that man his satisfaction.6. But Mr, Harraby-Ribston had reached a point at which he must either speak or burst and, preferring the former alternative, he said: "Excuse me, sir, but I must say, yo u surprise me. “But Mr. Harraby-Ribston could no longer remain quiet. He had to speak, or he would burst. As he naturally would rather speak than burst, he said. ...7. I find it hard to believe that anyone could fail to beinterested.Mr. Harraby-Ribston was implying that if Mr. Crowther should fail to get interested, he must be an abnormal person.8. Clothes, hairbrushes and so on all have their associations, and associations are precisely what I want to be rid of. Hence my rather unusual action.Clothes, hairbrushes and so on are all somewhat related to my marriage and will bring back memories, which I want to bury for ever. That was why I threw out that suitcase9. "You seem to me," said Mr. Crowther, "a man much given to surprise.""You seem to me," said MrCrowther, "a man quite easily surprised. 'Mr. Crowther was rather sarcastic.10. “While you, I take it,” Mr. Harraby-Ribston snapped back, “pride yourself on being surprised by nothing.”It was a quick retort. Mr. Harraby-Ribston wanted MrCrowther to know that to try so hard to show that he was surprised by nothing is also ridiculous.11. “I don’t think… that my particular method would be quite in your line.”I don’t think that the method I have used would be to your taste or would be suitable for you.12. "Quite! Quite!" said Mr. Harraby-Ribaton, who, by now, was worked up to a dangerous pitch of excitement.Mr. Harraby-Ribsten took the disclosure remarkably well. He did, it's true, flinch and turn a little pale, but in a few moments he had recovered himself.U81. Nobody is acknowledged to have free will or responsibility any more.People no longer admit that every person has a free will todecide to do or not to do, and therefore should be responsible for their actions or behavior.2. As if one’s human ness were a blueprint for instinc tive, reflexive reactions to situations, like the rest of the animal kingdom.As if the fact we are human were a kind of detailed plan which determines how we react to situations. This reaction is instinctive and natural just like with all animals, insects, birds.3. I see being "human" as the unique opportunity to use our mind and will to act in ways that elevate us above the animal kingdom.I do not regard our "humanness" as an excuse for our moral failures. I take it as a unique opportunity to prove ourselves to be better than all the other animals because only we humans havea mind to think and a free will to decide our actions.4 … without which we are merely gigantic ants instinctively filling out our biologically determined destiny.…without these qualities, we cease to be human and will be just like big ants which live out their lives in a way that is determined by their natural instincts.5… there is something extra special about the human mind that leads us… to take that extra step past some acti on that makes sense on only the basis of “survival of the fittest,” or “survival of the me.”…there is something special about the human mind which can make us go beyond selfish actions, actions that can only be explained by the need for survival.6. self-advancement and self-indulgence are powerful innate derives.the desire to improve yourself, move ahead, or achieve yourpurposes, and the desire to enjoy life are very powerful and natural, inborn, instinctive.7. Yet, if all giving is simple motivated by the expectation of eventually getting, where does our special “humanness” come in?Yet, if we give simply because we wish to get something in return, then what has that got to do with our “humanness”? Where w ould our “humanness” lie?8. Clearly, to resist the inner drive toward self-indulgence over character requires a value system that judges some behaviors as better than others...To obey the law is everyone’s duty.But for Florence, to be a lady is not enough.You think yourself more important than me.9. Merely sustaining life is a vegetable state, … Thoroughly living life requires initiative, risk-taking, sustained action against odds, sacrificing for ideals and for others, leaps of faith.an offensive word for someone who is alive, but cannot talk or move due to brain damage10. Courage is to life what broth is to soup. Courage is as important to life as broth is to soup.11. So many people espouse values about sex, abortion, honesty, etc., until the dilemma is theirs.So many people support values about sex, abortion, honesty, etc. until it becomes a difficult problem for them to handle.12. We wish to be excused because guilt and shame are painful emotions, and so we go through verbal and psychological contortions of blame and rationalizations.In order to be excused, we often try hard to twist things and put the blame on others or try to justify our actions in various ways in our speaking as well as in our thinking.13. While a balance of both is a great formula for a satisfying life, the confusion between the two, and the emphasis on the latter, have been devastating to individuals as well as families, and inevitably, society.Of course if we have a balanced amount of happiness and pleasure it would be ideal. But if we confuse these two and put too much emphasis on pleasure, then it will be very harmful to individuals, families and inevitably society.14. As satisfying as pure pleasure is, it is also transitory and often quite superficial.Although pure pleasure is satisfying , it does not last long and is often unimportant.15… to share ample quality time with friends and loved ones; to be enjoyably engaged in a gainful pursuit, …The time you spend giving your full attention, esp. time you spend with your children after work.A pursuit is something you spend a lot of time on such as sport, art, or academic work. A gainful pursuit is a pursuit from which you gain a lot.。
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3. It is said that people in our country read far fewer books per capita annually than people in many other countries. Some people even say that there are now more people writing books than people who ever read them. What do you think of this? Is it true? If it is, how do you account for this situation? Why do you think Chinese people read less that people in other countries? What can we do to change the situation?
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World Book and Copyright Day is a yearly event on 23rd April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on April 23rd. The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Spain as a way to honor the author Miguel de Cervantes who died on that day. (because the date is also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare.)
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UNIT 1…identity is determined by genetic endowment, shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.…our identity is decided by our genes (inherited from parents), greatly influenced by environment we live in and affected by some unexpected events.First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.First, there is the independence in handling everyday life situations, which involves the ability to solve practical problems, such as how to spend money wisely, choosing their own clothes, and determining what they are going to do everyday.Fourth is freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father.’’Children often feel very guilty in relation to their parents because they think they have done something wrong; they are also anxious because they are always eager to please their parents; they sometimes feel unhappy because they think that their parents have not fair to them; they feel that they are responsible to their parents for everything they do; they are always afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly; all these may make them angry with their parents or make them resentful. These feelings reflect their emotional dependence on their parents. When they grow up, they usually strive for the freedom from such dependence.Perh aps one of the most stressful matters…as men or women.Perhaps young college students feel most distressed in finding out their sexual identity, including associating with the opposite sex and designing their future roles as men or women.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.When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.walking slowly and listlessly, looking very unhappy and disappointed“to drag one’s feet” is often used figuratively to mean”to delay deliberately”The local authorities are dragging their feet closing small coal mines.During the course I had come to realize that while my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father, who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow. (6)From the course I learnt, I had discovered that different from my expanding world and more opportunities; my father was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.These religious, morals, 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.I can no longer read the newspaper or watch a television newscast without seeing the people from other countries in a different light. in a different wayWhenever I read the newspaper or watch a television newscast, I will see the people from other countries in a different way from what I used to see.☻What he did made us to see him in a new light.☻In the light of the new evidence, we decide to take him to court. 出于，考虑到Not only are they being introduced to new people and new knowledge, but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information. (10)They are getting to know a lot of new people and learning new knowledge. They are also finding or learning new ways of arranging, organizing, analyzing or understanding information.UNIT 2It was a wonder to me they'd want to be seen with such a windbag.我不理解为什么他们愿意让人看见自己和这样一个话匣子在一起。
It was surprising to me that they would spend time together with a person who talked too much like my father, yet they seemed to like it.An orderly riding by had told him, because the orderly knew how thick he was with Grant.An orderly who arrived riding on a horse had told him about the news, because the orderly knew that he was a close friend of Grant’t.Maybe the woman had dared to sympathize with her. "Oh," she said, "it's all right. Life is never dull when my man is about."Maybe the woman had been rude enough or foolish enough to express sympathy for my mother. She said: “Life is never boring when my husband is around.”For the first time I knew that I was the son of my father. He was a story teller as I was to be.He was a story teller. That was what I was to become later.I remember once when he had done something ridiculous, and right out on Main Street, too, I was with some other boys and they were laughing and shouting at him and he was shouting back and having as good a time as they were.记得有一次父亲做了一件荒谬可笑的事情，当时又是在大街上，而我正和其他男孩在一起。