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Unit 1 Half a Day
1. I t’s a place that makes useful men out of boys.
●It’s a place that makes boys become useful men.
2. We were formed into an intricate pattern in the great courtyard surrounded by high buildings.
●We were made to stand in different places to form regular lines or shapes in the big courtyard
surrounded by high buildings.
Or: We were made to stand in various forms of lines or shapes in the big courtyard surrounded by high buildings.
3. It seemed my misgivings had had no basis.
●It seemed that I was wrong to think that school was a dreadful place.
Or: Perhaps my doubt, worry and fear about what school would be like were all groundless.
4. 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.
●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.
5. Those who were able took advantage of the opportunities for success and happiness that
presented themselves .
●If there came/were opportunities, capable students would seize them to achieve success and
happiness.
Unit 3 Message of the Land
1. Our piece of land is small, and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like us, getting old and exhausted.
●Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us, who are getting old, weak, and tired.
2. Still the land could not tie them down or call them back.
●My children grew up and had happy days on this land, but this couldn’t prevent them from
leaving.
3. …,but in a bad year, it's not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too.
●…,but when there is drought, the land is so hard that the ploughs break. And we become very,
very sad.
4. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now it's all cash.
●Only ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but today we have to use money
to get everything we need.
5. My eyes do see—they see more than they should. My ears do hear—they hear more than is good for me.
●I do see and hear ---- I see and hear too much evil, too many ugly and terrible things, things
that I wish I didn’t have to see and hear, which is not good for me.
Unit 5 The Nightingale and the Rose
1. …, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
●…, but my life is made miserable because I don’t have a red rose.
2. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?
●But love is worth the sacrifice of one’s life. The heart of a bird is nothing compared to the the
heart of a lover.
3. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style without any sincerity.
●In fact, she is like most artists, whose songs are beautiful in harmony but lack true feelings.
4. …,for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
●…,for she sang praises of the love that grows and grows until they die, and of the love that will
live in eternity.
5. The Nightingale's voice grew fainter, and her little wings began to beat, and a film came over her eyes.
●The Nightingale’s voice got weaker and weaker and a layer of liquid came over her eyes,
which blurred her vision.
Unit 6 The Green Banana
1. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to
leak.
●When the radiator started to leak, my old jeep was trying hard to climb up the mountain in the
picturesque rural area.
2. He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his
statement.
●(I looked at him in surprise,) as a result, he looked at me closely, as if he wanted to make sure
that I understood the importance of what he had said.
3. As a product of American higher 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.
●As I have been brought up and educated in the US, I knew little about the uses of the green
banana. The only thing I knew about them is that they are not ripened, ready to eat as fruit.
4. It was my own time that had not come, all in relation to it.
●It required the effort on my own part to learn about the green banana and everything connected
with it.
5. But once a conscious breakthrough to a second center is made, a lifelong perspective and
collection can begin.
●But once you make a serious effort to overcome your prejudice and go out to encounter
different cultures, for the rest your life your mind will keep broadening as you experience and
benefit from more and more treasures of other cultures/nations.
Unit 10 Mandela’s Garden
1. To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one's daily life.
●In order to keep alive in prison, you must do things that you can do there and that can also
make you feel happy in a way.
2. The sense of being the owner of the small patch of earth offered a small taste of freedom.
●Being aware that you could grow whatever you wanted on a small piece of land enabled you to
enjoy a small amount of freedom.
3. In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life.
●I found handling certain aspects of my life is similar to tending a garden.
4. I told her this small story at great length. I do not know what she read into that letter, but
when I wrote it I had a mixture of feelings.
●I told her the story about the tomato plant in great detail. I don’t know how she understood that
letter, but when I wrote the letter, I had all kinds of feelings.
5. I did not have many of the materials that the books discussed, but I learned through trial
and error.
●I didn’t have the materials the book mentioned, but I learned gardening by trying a lot of
different methods and drawing lessons from my mistakes.
Unit 11 Maheegun My Brother
1. Not that we didn't have our troubles.
●Although we had a great time together, i t’s not true that we didn’t have any troubles.
2. Maheegun would poke his head around the corner, waiting for things to quiet down.
●Maheegun would hide somewhere out of Grandma’s sight, waiting for her to calm down.
3. Gone was the puppy-wool coat. In its place was a handsome black mantle.
●His hair changed. It was no longer soft and woolly. Instead, it was beautiful and black.
4. It all served to fog my mind with pleasure so that I forgot my Grandpa's repeated warnings,
and one night left Maheegun unchained.
●Although my Grandpa had told me to chain Maheegun at night, I forgot to do so one night. I
was so happy with him that my alertness slackened.
5. By then the snow had made a blanket of white darkness, but I knew only too well there
should have been no creek there.
●By that time, it was snowing heavily, and the sky was so thick with big snowflakes that I
couldn’t see through them. I realized that I had taken the wrong direction, because there was no creek where I should have moved to.。