《高级英语》课后练习paraphrase答案

1. I sat there and for the first time felt that it was possible for a writer and a reader to become true friends. The writer and reader could exchange feelings as well as ideas. Such exchange might not be as close as that among my family members, yet it is personal and private communication indeed2. Whenever I finished reading a book, I would tell my teachers about what I had learned so as to enjoy the praise and encouragement from my teachers for my hard work.3. Although I worked very hard on reading, I found reading could also be pleasant or amusing. I began to enjoy that feeling of loneliness or isolation reading had brought me.4. Although I enjoyed reading very much, yet the way I read was not correct, for I was only fascinated by books and I did not have any ideas of my own. Instead, I tried to form such ideas from reading.5. But, as a persistent and hardworking boy who believed in everything teachers or professors said, I managed to read The Republic without missing a single word. 1．America’s schoo ls are always controlled by those government officials in charge of education system. To tell how powerful/influential these people are, we could make a contrast between America’s schools and America’s universities, which are quite beyond the control or command of those officials.2．“The University should be built upon the complete freedom of the human thought.Because in this university, we are free to seek after truth and stick to it; and we are secure to tolerate any error as long as we are allowed to fight against it with the power of reason.”3．America’s universities and professors in charge of these institutions stress that students should not only develop the habit of independent thinking, but also strive to broaden their mind, delve into their textbooks, and have a precise command of knowledge.4．These days freshman students to America’s research/best universities are not always up to the admission standard. To maintain the education quality, our universities have to enroll large numbers of foreign students with excellent educational background .5．We have to allow foreign students to enter our universities so as to solve the problem caused by public schools’ failure in education. It is just like that we have to allow foreign capital to come into our county so as to solve the problem of negative trade balance. These solutions can not work forever.1. As a Puerto Rican girl brought up in US, I have a strong desire to be accepted as a native, and I feel quite angry about people’s bias against me, caused by my Hi spanic appearance.2. As a girl I was brought up under constant watch of my parents, who believe my chastity/virginity and proper behavior/decency are something that are equal/equivalent / so much related to our family reputation.3. In her native place, a Hispanic girl is kept safe by her big family and their religion. If she was assaulted/offended/insulted by a man, the offender would surely getpunished.4. My pro friends are surprised to find that even today some people, including those who are well educated, still have bias against people from a different cultural background.5. In his eyes, I was simply a typical Latin girl of humble origins, just one of the stereotyped images in his prejudiced mind.1.It was a joke; we all regarded ourselves as smart college freshmen, and thoughtthat in the world we could get everything as long as we asked.2.Back in the 17th century, Spinoza thought that although ambition and lust werenot classified as diseases, they could make people go crazy and insane.3.Most of us have to face the great success our friends (or enemies) achieved, whoused to start their career at the same time as we did, but now they are much more successful than we are.4.In addition to all these external criteria which are used to measure success, there isanother thing which you hate most, that is, your internal voice. This voice kept reminding you that how successful you could have been and how miserable you are now, because you failed to meet your goals.5.The world is also full of people who are so ambitious, so exhausted by work andoverwork that the things they do on the way to success are of no value at all. For them, life is a long journey which only promises future reward. You are doing this or that which you really don’t like to do only because you believe that you will be rewarded and get what you want someday in future.1.From the very beginning of the world, God said that work was bad, shameful,oppressive and life-long suffering. If Adam and Eve had not sinned ，human beings would have enjoyed great glory and could have lived in the paradise joyfully and permanently without having to work.2.The Protestant work ethic was formed in the instructions of ML and JC. This workethic regards work as a sacred and holy mission, and to accomplish this mission, the worker cooperates with God to change our world.3. Finally, men and women emphasize more on realizing their own personal values. This expectation seems natural and even meaningful but sometimes people who expect too much of themselves will become self-centered and their requirements will never be satisfied. As a result, they will be isolated from the rest of the world and livea vacant and lonely life.4. Americans, who always complain about their job, should talk with those jobless young people living in the poor area, who with whose painful experience, know far better than anyone else how important and respectable it is to have a job.5. Undoubtedly workers often feel alienated from human nature or they feel themselves nothing but machines. But almost everyone possesses the capability of adapting themselves to the environment. This capability can sometimes even enable workers to devote themselves to their work, and this situation is beyond many scholars’expectations. That workers could somehow adapt to their workplace and even love their work is something more meaningful than all those high talk about alienation on the part of workers.。