大二英语例句

UNIT 1
A.1.I am not in E.B.White's class as a writer or in my neighbor's league as a farmer,but I'm getting by.
2.Our bees provides us with honey,and we cut enough wood to just about to make it through the heating season.
3.Soon Jim,16 and Emily.13.the youngest of our children,will help me make some long-overdue improvements on the outdoor toilet that supplements our indoor plumbing when we are working outside.
4.We've been able to make up the difference in income by cutting back without appreciably lowering our standard of living.
5.I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do.
6.The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices.
B.1.In walks dear old Dad,hungry and tired after a long day at the office.
2.Becoming aware of the effects of those changes may help us improve family life.
3.They travel distances to work that would have made their parents gasp.
4.And classiic fast foods,like hamburgers and fries,are meant to be eaten on the run,not slowly,enjoyed at the dinner table.
5.Or Junior is playig a let's-blow-up Saturn video game while Sis wants to see The Simpsons.
6.One is the need,in most families,for both parents to bring home a paycheck.

Unit 2
A.1.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire.Uncle Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
2.I had traveled here to Henson's last home-now a historic site that Carter formerly directed-to learn more about a man who was,in many ways,an African-American Moses.
3.Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.
4.And it's about time.For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered,their exploits still largely unsung.
5.The others made it to the Ohio shore,where Parker hurriedly arranged for a wagon to take them to the next "station" on the Underground Railroad-the first leg of their journey to the safety in Canada.
6.Eventually three principal routes converged at the Coffin house,which came to be the Grand Central Terminal of the Underground Railroad.
B.1.That does not result from talent being concentrated among males with pale skin.
2.For another 100 or so,segregation was enforced throughout the South and much of the North,often policed by home-grown terrorists.
3.He felt no guilt about laws requiring that African Americans have the opportunity to go to schools,to enter universities,to compete for jobs and contracts.
4.If Dr.King were alive today,he would be 66,younger than Senator Bob Dole,who suggests that discrimination ended "before we were born".
5.Modern-day conservatives haven't a clue about what to do with an economy thay is generating greater inequality and r

educing the security and living standards of more and more Americans.
6.No matter how desperate things were,no matter how grave the crisis,no matter how many times his dreams were shattered.Dr.King refused to grow bitter.

Unit 3
A.1.It is not uncommon,in the most pleasant of homes,to see pasted on the windows small notices annoucing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.
2.Indeed,a rencent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are,but a picture of a child's bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.
3.The ad pointed out that,yes,it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods,but who is going to pay for what the new atomosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of life.
4.Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wave you in most days,but the fact remains that the business you work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders away via these "keys".
5.With electronic X-ray equipment,we seem finally to have figured out a way to hold the terrorists,real and imagined,at bay:it was such a relief to solve this problem that we did not think much about what such a state of affairs says about the quality of our lives.
6.What better word to describe the way in which we have been forced to live?What sadder reflection on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time.
B.1.Today,I'm typical of the women whom gun manufatures have been aiming at as pontential buyers-and one of the million who have taken the plunge.
2.His alleged crimes were so brutal,his desire to inflict pain so intense,that I began to question my beliefs about not taking human life under any cirumstances.
3.I realized that the one-sided pacifism I once so strongly had advocated could backfire on me and worse on my son.
4.Its push-button lock opens with a touch if you know the proper combination,possibly taking only a second or two longer than it does to reach into a night-table drawer.

Unit 4
A.1.It looked like a shooting star at first,but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.
2.I can see in your mind that you really wish,with great intensity,to be left alone.
3.I don't know how I did it,he being twenty-five pounds heavier than I,but I heaved him to the window by his shirt collar.
4.He was too surprised to resist and when he recovered his wits enough to make like he was going to knock me down,he caught sight of what was going on outside the window and the breath went out of him.
5.It went up easy as a feather and a red-orange glow showed up on one side and got brighter as the ship got smaller till it was a shooting star again,slowing fading out.
B.1.Modern astronomers think he is likely to have been right,for if our solar system was informed from a cloud of dust and gas that automatically formed planets,that should

be true of many other stars as well,and even,perhaps,of nearly all stars.