精读4 paraphrase unit6
英语专业阅读教程第四册课后paraphrase的答案
英语专业阅读教程第四册课后paraphrase的答案Unit one passage two P61 Many children refuse to eat animal meat at first. They later become used to eating it because their parents try hard to persuade them to eat.2 There are two different and conflicting attitudes towards animals. They are carefully separated so that the existing and the essential contradiction between the two hardly causes trouble.3 Picture books and stories deliberately avoid presenting the real situation in our modern farms. Children, therefore, are kept from seeing the reality.4 The difficulty will be that non-vegetarian parents do not want to let their children know the gruesome side of the story, as they are afraid that their children will refuse to eat meat at meals because of their sympathy towards animals.5 Unfortunately, non-vegetarian parents will strongly disapprove of their children’sunwillingness to eat meat.Passage 3 P 161 When his animals are being experimented on, the act doesn’t take effect.2 Your experimenter is not refused to obey law.3 Researchers at Louisiana State University launched an eight-year, $2 million project funded by the Department of Defense. They use tools to hold cats firmly and then they remove cats’skulls and shoot them in the head.4 The experimenters claim that their purpose for this kind of experiment is to find a way of curing the brain-wounded soldiers so that they later can go back to military service.5 psychologists use medical operations to turn around the eyes of young cats.6 there is other evidence showing that cats were not adequately anesthetized while experimenters cut their eye muscles; animalexperimentation was done by people who were not trained and did not have licenses to operate on animals, and the mother cats was conflicted such great torture on by the experiments that they ate their babies.Unit 2 passage two P 331 now we can enjoy the benefits and list in what ways we benefit from his death.2 There must be some other benefits by fastening Harding into a chair in a tiny room and poisoning him to death with gas.3 not even people who are eloquently in supporting of executing people, such as Arizona Attorney Grant Woods, who attracts much public attention, believe that death penalty will keep people from committing crimes.4 but even killing a small number of murderers will have great impact on people5 perhaps the benefit got form killing Harding is not easy to see.Passage 3 page 381 her voice and her expression show that she is sometimes deep in sorrow and sometimes furious beyond her control.2 This sense of justice, like many other basic beliefs, is such a necessary element for us to maintain our psychological health that we take it too granted and hardly ever become aware of its existence, until one day it was severely violated.3 People’s opinions greatly differ as to what is the properway for correcting wrong behavior.4 Europeans are very passionate when coming to the issue of taking tough measures on political violence.Passage 4 page 441 carefully examined Tony’s bed to see if he had dirtied it with his body fluids.2 when I looked at the sickly old man, I couldn’t imagine that he used to be clean and neat, serious and determined, and that herobbed a bank and killed a cop.3 Many people in the underworld believed that Tony should have done something for his partner, but he did nothing, which badly hurts his partners. The underworld people believed Tony’s partners had been betrayed.4 words had gone around that T ony’s wife was murdered because the underworld people wanted to revenge against tony for the death of his three crime partners.5 The lights shining in the window made the hollows in his dark face look deeper, making him look like somewhat evil.Unit 5 passage 1 p1041competition plays such an important part in our culture that it is common to see even adults are screaming and swearing in the Sunday afternoon. This is ridiculous and I feel very bad about it..2 from my own experience, I don’t think we can d evelop deep and full relationship bytrying to compete and win against a common enemy.3 If my success means that I have to do better than others, I don’t think I will ever feel real satisfactory, because I have to keep thinking of how to outdo others, which was very unpleasantan exhausting.4 even when I reach the top position, I will not feel safe as all those below me are waiting to outdo me and trying to grab the position from me.5 I start to see that my confidence in my personal value and worth is depended on how much better I am than so many others in so many activities.6 only when we begin to realize that there is no such a thing as healthy competition can we begin to live more normal and richer lives.Passage 2 p1091 You knew that one had healthy self-esteem when he/she could enjoy competing in a hobbywhere he/she was not very good at.2 A true competition is one in which you don’t know for sure whether or not you will able to achieve your aim.3 For many of us, competition is an additional ingredient that keeps our life interesting, makes us alter and active and enables us to become more creative and productive.4 It can be a good part of our life and exerts a great influence on how we live.5 parents must also set an example of how to compete pleasantly in their own lives.Passage 31 competition can be fun, but we may be overenthusiastic and unreasonable about it.2 candidates who sit in a test performance in order to join certain bands can get undeniable violent and aggressive.3 feel free to find a gift in yourself develop it and embarrass those who dare to challenge you.4 if competition is not fun and people find themselves are extremely worried about an event which they are competing in. why not stop going through it?。
精读第四册一二课Paraphrase
Paraphrase in Lesson 11. Everybody, except me, was born with the ability to think.2. You could hear the wind was caught in his chest, and the fresh air had to struggle with difficulty to find its way to his chest because he was unfamiliar with this. He would be thrown off balance, and his face would turn pale. He would return unsteadily to his desk and fall down in his chair, unable to do anything for the rest of the morning.3. At that time, it seemed to me that he was not controlled by thought, and it was the working of his genes that compelled him to turn his head toward young girls.4. Practically, grade-three thinking is as incompetent as most businessmen’s golf, as dishonest with most politicians’ speech, as incoherent as most publications.5. Grade-three thinkers usually represent the great majority. We had better respect them because we are fewer in number and surrounded by them.6. It is human nature to enjoy agreement because it may bring peace, comfort and harmony, just as cows will eat the same part of grass as the same way as the others do.7. Our Prime Minister would talk about the great benefits we provided to India, while at the same time our government put people like Nehru and Gandhi into prison. American politicians would talk about peace, while meanwhile they refused to join the League of Nations. Yes, to see these ridiculous examples of grade-three thinkers, as a grade-two thinker, there is temporary satisfaction.8. I put my arm around Ruth’s waist quietly and said in a low voice that i f we took the number of people into consideration, I would bet the Buddhists were the greatest in number. She escaped because my touch and the thought of the great number of Buddhists were more than she could accept.9. What had happened to Ruth and I now happened again and again. I had some good friends who supported me and share the same belief with me. But my grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances.Paraphrase in Lesson 21. Bella was young and pretty and was seen as the beauty of the boarding-house, but no one had shown any particular interest in her.2. Mr. Penbury was intelligent, but no one in the boarding-house liked him for that. (He was too smart for them, and everybody felt annoyed.)3. But Mrs. Mayton would not tolerate any silence for more than three minutes. So when no one broke the silence within three minutes she lost her patience and, turning to Penbury and asked.4. Mr. Calthrop was urging Mr. Penbury to give an answer immediately so that he would not have the time to make up a story.5. The weapon went through Mr. Wainwright’s heart.6. We all know you are a sleep walker, so you may commit the murder in your sleep.7. Mr. Penbury advises Mr. Calthrop not to put so much emphasis on his statement when talking to the police if he does not want to arouse their suspicion about his story.8. “No,” Miss Wicks answered, “I have come to put an end to your cough.”。
现代大学英语精读 4 Unit 6课文
精品文档Book 4-Unit 5Text AThe TelephoneAnwar F. Accawi1.When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese village in the terraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon, time didn't mean much to anybody, except maybe to those whowere dying. In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track ofthe hours, days, months, and years. We knew what to do and when to do it, just as the Iraqi geese knew when to fly north, driven by the hot wind that blew in from the desert. The only timepiece we had need of then was the sun. It rose and set, and the seasons rolled by andwe sowed seed and harvested and ate and played and married our cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox—and those children who survived grew up and married their cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox. We lived and loved and toiled and died without ever needing to know what year it was, or even the timeof day.2.It wasn't that we had no system for keeping track of time and of the important events in our lives. But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine—calendar, because it was framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences. Simple as our calendar was, it worked just fine for us.3.4.Take, for example, the birth date of Teta Im Khalil, the oldest woman in Magdaluna and all the surrounding villages. When I asked Grandma, How old is Teta Im Khalil?5.Grandma had to think for a moment; then she said, I've been told that Teta was born shortly after the big snow that caused the roof on the mayor's house to cave in.6.And when was that? I asked.7.8.Oh, about the time we had the big earthquake that cracked the wall in the east room.9.10.Well, that was enough for me. You couldn't be more accurate than that, now, could you?11.12.And that's the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember. One of the most unusual of the dates was when a whirlwind struck during which fish and oranges fell from the sky. Incredible as it may sound, the story of the fish and oranges was true, because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told and retold that story untilit was incorporated into Magdaluna's calendar.13.14.The year of the fish-bearing whirlpool was not the last remarkable year. Many others followed in which strange and wonderful things happened. There was, for instance, the yearof the drought, when the heavens were shut for months and the spring from which theentire village got its drinking water slowed to a trickle. The spring was about a mile from the village, in a ravine that opened at one end into a small, flat clearing covered with fine graydust and hard, marble-sized goat droppings. In the year of the drought, that little clearing was always packed full of noisy kids with big brown eyes and sticky hands, and their精品文档．精品文档mothers—sinewy, overworked young women with cracked, brown heels. The children ran around playing tag or hide-and-seek while the women talked, shooed flies, and awaited their turns to fill up their jars with drinking water to bring home to their napping men and wet babies. There were days when we had to wait from sunup until late afternoon just to fill a small clay jar with precious, cool water.15.16.Sometimes, amid the long wait and the heat and the flies and the smell of goat dung, tempers flared, and the younger women, anxious about their babies, argued over whose turn it was to fill up her jar. And sometimes the arguments escalated into full-blown, knockdown-dragout fights; the women would grab each other by the hair and curse and scream and spit and call each other names that made my ears tingle. We little brown boys who went with our mothers to fetch water loved these fights, because we got to see the women's legs and their colored panties as they grappled and rolled around in the dust. Once in a while, we got lucky and saw much more, because some of the women wore nothing atall under their long dresses. God, how I used to look forward to those fights. I remember the rush, the excitement, the sun dancing on the dust clouds as a dress ripped and a young white breast was revealed, then quickly hidden. In my calendar, that year of drought will always be one of the best years of my childhood.17.But, in another way, the year of the drought was also one of the worst of my life, because that was the year that Abu Raja, the retired cook, decided it was time Magdaluna got its own telephone. Every civilized village needed a telephone, he said, and Magdaluna was not going to get anywhere until it had one. A telephone would link us with the outside world. A few men—like the retired Turkish-army drill sergeant, and the vineyard keeper—did all they could to talk Abu Raja out of having a telephone brought to the village. But they were outshouted and ignored and finally shunned by the other villagers for resisting progress and trying to keep a good thing from coming to Magdaluna.18.One warm day in early fall, many of the villagers were out in their fields repairing walls or gathering wood for the winter when the shout went out that the telephone-company truck had arrived at Abu Raja's dikkan, or country store. When the truck came into view, everybody dropped what they were doing and ran to Abu Raja's house to see what was happening.19.It did not take long for the whole village to assemble at Abu Raja's dikkan. Some of the rich villagers walked right into the store and stood at the elbows of the two important-looking men from the telephone company, who proceeded with utmost gravity, like priests at Communion, to wire up the telephone. The poorer villagers stood outside and listened carefully to the details relayed to them by the not-so-poor people who stood in the doorway and could see inside.20.The bald man is cutting the blue wire, someone said.21.He is sticking the wire into the hole in the bottom of the black box, someone else added.22.23.The telephone man with the mustache is connecting two pieces of wire. Now he is twistingthe ends together, a third voice chimed in.24.Because I was small, I wriggled my way through the dense forest of legs to get a firsthand look at the action. Breathless, I watched as the men in blue put together a black machinethat supposedly would make it possible to talk with uncles, aunts, and cousins who lived精品文档．精品文档more than two days' ride away.25.26.It was shortly after sunset when the man with the mustache announced that the telephone was ready to use. He explained that all Abu Raja had to do was lift the receiver, turn thecrank on the black box a few times, and wait for an operator to take his call. Abu Raja grabbed the receiver and turned the crank forcefully. Within moments, he was talking withhis brother in Beirut. He didn't even have to raise his voice or shout to be heard.27.28.And the telephone, as it turned out, was bad news. With its coming, the face of the village began to change. One of the fast effects was the shifting of the village's center. Before the telephone's arrival, the men of the village used to gather regularly at the house of Im Kaleem, a short, middle-aged widow with jet-black hair and a raspy voice that could be heard all over the village, even when she was only whispering. She was a devout Catholic and also the village whore. The men met at her house to argue about politics and drink coffee and play cards or backgammon. Im Kaleem was not a true prostitute, however, because she did not charge for her services—not even for the coffee and tea that she served the men. She did not need the money; her son, who was overseas in Africa, sent her money regularly. Im Kaleem loved all the men she entertained, and they loved her, every one of them. In a way, she was married to all the men in the village. Everybody knew it but nobody objected. Actually I suspect the women did not mind their husbands'visits to Im Kaleem. Oh, they wrung their hands and complained to one another about their men's unfaithfulness, but secretly they were relieved, because Im Kaleem took some of the pressure off them and kept the men outof their hair while they attended to their endless chores. Im Kaleem was also a kind of confessor and troubleshooter, talking sense to those men who were having family problems, especially the younger ones.29.Before the telephone came to Magdaluna, Im Kaleem's house was bustling at just about any time of day, especially at night, when the loud voices of the men talking, laughing, and arguing could be heard in the street below—a reassuring, homey sound. Her house was an island of comfort, an oasis for the weary village men, exhausted from having so little to do.30.31.But it wasn't long before many of those men—the younger ones especially—started spending more of their days and evenings at Abu Raja's dikkan. There, they would eat and drink and talk and play checkers and backgammon, and then lean their chairs back againstthe wall—the signal that they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball, the latest rumors going around the village. And they were always looking up from their games and drinks and talk to glance at the phone in the corner, as if expecting it to ring any minute and bring news that would change their lives and deliver them from their aimless existence. In the meantime, they smoked cheap, hand-rolled cigarettes, dug dirt out from under their fingernails with bigpocketknives, and drank lukewarm sodas that they called Kacula, Seffen-Ub, and Bebsi.32.The telephone was also bad news for me personally. It took away my lucrative business—a source of much-needed income. Before, I used to hang around Im Kaleem's courtyard andplay marbles with the other kids, waiting for some man to call down from a window and ask me to run to the store for cigarettes or liquor, or to deliver a message to his wife, such aswhat he wanted for supper. There was always something in it for me: a ten or even a精品文档．精品文档twenty-five-piaster piece. On a good day, I ran nine or ten of those errands, which assured a steady supply of marbles that I usually lost to other boys. But as the days went by fewer and fewer men came to Im Kaleem's, and more and more congregated at Abu Raja's to wait bythe telephone. In the evenings, the laughter and noise of the men trailed off and finally stopped.33.At Abu Raja's dikkan, the calls did eventually come, as expected, and men and women started leaving the village the way a hailstorm begins: first one, then two, then bunches.34.The army took them. Jobs in the cities lured them. And ships and airplanes carried them to such faraway places as Australia and Brazil and New Zealand. My friend Kameel, his cousin Habeeb, and their cousins and my cousins all went away to become ditch diggers and mechanics and butcher-shop boys and deli owners who wore dirty aprons sixteen hours a day, all looking for a better life than the one they had left behind. Within a year, only the sick, the old, and the maimed were left in the village. Magdaluna became a skeleton of its former self, desolate and forsaken, like the tombs, a place to get away from.35.Finally, the telephone took my family away, too. My father got a call from an old army buddy who told him that an oil company in southern Lebanon was hiring interpreters and instructors. My father applied for a job and got it, and we moved to Sidon, where I went to a Presbyterian missionary school and graduated in 1962. Three years later, having won a scholarship, I left Lebanon for the United States. Like the others who left Magdaluna before me, I am still looking for that better life. (2121 words)36.精品文档．。
现代大学英语精读4第二版Unit6TheTelephonePPT课件
Plot: a little boy’s first time to go to school on the way to school
Setting: at school on the way home
Protagonist/Narrator: “I” –the boy in the story Theme of the story: what do you think?
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• Non-Fiction The Boy from the Tower of the Moon (1999)
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现代大学英语精读4--unit6-groundless-beliefs--课件
e.g. He has six previous convictions for theft. They are strong because they have been in our mind for such a long time. They are strong because they were imprinted on our mind when we were little children, before we were able to judge for ourselves. They are strong because they were passed on to us during our most formative years and often by people we trusted and loved.
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现代大学英语精读4paraphrase1-8
第一单元1、Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left me out.2、Y ou could hear the wind, trapped in his chest and struggling with all the unnatural impediments. His body would reel with shock and his face go white at the unaccusto med visitation. He would stagger back to his desk and collapse there, useless for the rest of the morning.Y ou could hear that the fresh air had to struggle with difficulty to find its way to his chest, because he was unaccustomed to this as his lungs had been harmed by drinking. His body would lose balance and his face would become pale as a result of the unexpected visit of the wind. He would go back to his desk unsteadily and fall into the chair, unable to do anything for the rest of the morning.3、In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible and irresistible spring in his neck.Mr. 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.4、Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen‟s golf, as honest as most politicians‟intentions, or as coherent as most books that get written..Technically speaking, it is as skillful as most businessmen‟s golf playing, as honest as most politicians‟ purpose, and as consistent as most books‟ content.5、They have immense solidarity. We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered and surrounded.As they are everywhere and so daunting in number that we‟d better not offend them.6、Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.Humans enjoy following the crowd as it can bring them peace, security, comfort and harmony, which is like cows eating grass on the same side of a hill.7、To hear our Prime Minister talk about the great benefit we conferred on India by jailing people like Nehru and Gandhi. To hear American politicians talk about peace and refuse to join the League of Nations. Y es, there were moments of delight.Our Prime Minister was a hypocrite to say that the imprisonment of the two major leaders of Free-India Movement-Nehru and Gandhi-was good for India. The American politicians were dissimulators to talk about peace but refuse to join the League of Nations. Those moments made me feel happy.8、I slid my am around her waist and murmured that if we were counting heads, the Buddhists were the boys for my money. She fled. The combination of my arm and those countless Buddhists was too much for her.I slid my arm around her waist and whispered that if we were talking about the number of people who believed in a certain religion , I believed the Buddhists were greater in number. My “indecent” behavior and the daunting number of the Buddhists scared her away.9、It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and still do. But my acquaintance vanished, taking the girls with them.What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. Although some close friends of mine still stuck by me, my grad-one thinking scared away many of my acquaintances.Paraphrase in Lesson 21. Bella was the boarding-house lovely, but no one had taken advantage of the fact.Bella was young and pretty and was seen as the beauty of the boarding-house, but no one had shown any particular interest in her.2. He possessed a brain, and since no one understood it when he used it, it was resented.Mr. Penbury was intelligent, but no one in the boarding-house liked him for that. He was too smart for them, and everybody felt annoyed.3. But Mrs. Mayton never allowed more than three minutes to go by without a word and so when the silence had reached its allotted span, she turned to Penbury and asked.But Mrs. Mayton would not tolerate any silence for more than three minutes. So when no one broke the silence within three minutes she lost her patience and, turning to Penbury and asked.4. “Now,then,don‟t take too long thinking of an answer!”glared Mr. Calthrop.Mr. Calthrop was urging Mr. Penbury to give an answer immediately so that he would not have the time to make up a story.5. If found the spot all right. The weapon went through Mr. Wainwright‟s heart.6. We all know you walk in your sleep.We all know you are a sleep walker, so you may commit the murder in your sleep.7. “but let me suggest that you give the statement to the police with slightly less emphasis.”Mr. Penbury advises Mr. Calthrop not to put so much emphasis on his statement when talking to the police if he does not want to arouse their suspicion about his story.8.”No,”I answered.”I‟ve come to cure it.”“No,” Miss Wicks answered, “I have come to put an end to your cough.”Unit31. Most students are usually introduced to the study of history by way of a fat textbook and become quickly immersed in a vast sea of names, dates, events and statistics.Most students usually come to have their first experience of the study of history through the reading of a thick history textbook and soon are overwhelmed by a large number of names, dates, events and statistics.2.History, which seemed to be a cut-and-dried matter od memorizing “facts,”now becomes a matter of personal preference.People used to believe history study was just an effort of memorizing “facts.”Now history means different things to different people,because they choose the best description andiinterpretation according to their own preferences among those given by historians.3.They cannot help but feel that two diametrically opposed points of view about an event cannot both be right;yet they lack the ability to decide between them.They cannot help feeling that two absolutely opposite ideas about an event cannot both be correct,but they do not have the ability to judge which one is right.4.They will read of the interception of the “Zimmerman Note,”in which the German foreign secretary order German minister in Mexico,in the event of war,to suggest an alliance between German and Mexico whereby Mexico,with German support,could win back territory taken from Mexico by the United States in the Mexican War.They will come across the historical interception of the “Zimmerman Note.”In that telegraph,the German foreign secretary gave order to German minister in Mexico and asked him to propose an alliance with Mexico Government in case there would be war and to promise that Mexico Government would like to help Mexico win back the land that was taken away from Mexico by the US in the Mexico war.5.Can we eliminate all disagreement?If the state of our knowledge were such that it provided us with a model of unquestioned validity that completely explained human behavior,we can.We can get rid of all disagreements if our knowledge could give us a perfect model that completely explained human behavior.Unfortunately,such model doed not exist.Unit41.”My parents,and my wife‟s parents,and our priest,decided that I wasn‟t feeling up to it.And finally I decided so too.”“My parents, my wife‟s parents and our priest all thought that I‟d pretend to be not feeling well enough as an excuse to be absent from the awarding ceremony.So I decided not to attend the ceremony.”2.”…I‟m a sculptor,not a demonstrator.”“I‟m a sculptor,and I don‟t want to show any antagonistic feeling towards the white world by receiving an award.”3.In Orlando you develop a throat of ironIn Orlando you (the blacks) gradually develop a throat as strong as iron.4.… so I thought I‟d go and see the window, and indulge certain pleasurable human feelings.So I thought I‟d go and see my sculpture in the window and have some pleasant feelings of pride by enjoying my own work,which is natural to human beings.5.”Y ou know it‟s by one of your own boys,don‟t you?”“What is extraordinary about the wonderful sculpture is that it is made by a black man like you.Do you know?”6.”She knows it won‟t be an easy life.”“She knows that her child will live a hard life in South Africa because they are black people.”7.I didn‟t feel like a drink at that time of night..I didn‟t want to drink because if the police caught me drinking late at night I would be in great trouble.8.He wasn‟t lookin g round to see if anyone might be watching.He wasn‟t afraid of being seen walking with a black man.9.I said unwillingly,”Y es.”I answered “Y es”,but actually I didn‟t want to tell him the truth.10.Now I certainly had not expected that I would have my drink in the passaage.I wasn‟t onlyfeeling what you may be thinking …Drinking in the passage was certainly beyond my expectation.What was in my mind was not what you may be thinking…11.“Our land is beautiful. But it breaks my heart.”“Our country is beautiful.But the apartheid made me very sad.”12….as though they wanted..to touch me somewhere and didn‟t know how….as though they wanted to communicate with me emotionally but didn‟t know the way to do it 13.And I thought it was a pity he was blind, for if men never touch each other, they‟ll hurt each other one day.And I thought it was a sad thing, because if you don‟t understand each other and don‟t care for each other, they will hurt each other some day.14.What he was thinking,God knows, but I was thinking he was like a man trying to run a race iniron shoes, and not understanding why he cannot move.Nobody knows what he was thinking.But I was thinking that he was much like a man trying to run but couldn‟t because he was still not completely free fro m racist prejudices which were dragging his feet like iron shoes.第五单元1.He treated Nerys like—well, there were times when—not just me, you understand…We allcould have done.The man Nerys was engaged to left her after she had become disfigured. But before the bank raid, he behaved like a lover. Many man, not just me, could have done the same if we had engaged with her.2.This man… treated her as only a handsome man can treat a beautiful woman.This man loved her only because she was beautiful. So he left her when she was no longer beautiful.3.We used to…When we were…We used to love this music when we were in love.4.I‟m sorry.I‟m sorry about what hapended to Netys.5.Sorry. I didn‟t mean to…I didin‟t mean to hurt you by offering money, because I know it‟s impossible for us to compensate in any way for the distress and suffering that Nerys and you have gone through.6.Or is it because it‟s us who are offering?Y ou don‟t accept our help only because Vic was responsible for her suffering.7.Y ou stick with him. Y ou stick with Vic. If you …re looking for heros .Y ou are with a hero if you are looking for a hero and that‟s Vic rather than me, so don‟t leave him.8….and I love him so much, Mrs Parks, and I‟m ever so sorry…I love Vic very much. I feel guilty about this because Vic is your husband.9. Sharon, it‟s a passing thing, I promise.Sharon, I can assure you that this experience is transient and won‟t last long. We all have the feeling when we are young.10.Y ou never hear good about yourself, do you?Y ou never hear people speak ill of you, do you? People gossip about you.11.Y ou know bloody well what you‟ve done to her…Y ou know clearly that you have been hurting her.12.I am not being shouted at.Beware of your manners. Stop shouting at me!13.If she dies, vic, if that girl dies…If Sharon gets drowned, you will be held responsible.14.Right. There is about to be some serious damage done, I can tell you…I will make you pay what you have done to me. Y ou will be punished for what you have done to me.15.No, Sharon, I‟d rather you…Sharon，you‟d better not do anything. Y ou have done enough to him.第六单元1.They rest upon mere tradition, or on somebody‟s bare assertion unsupported by even a shadow of proof…They are merely based on tradition, or on someone‟s statement that cannot be supported even by the least amount of proof…2.But if the staunchest Roman Catholic and the staunchest Presbyterian had been exchanged when infants, and if they had been brought up with home and all other influences reversed, we can have very little doubt what the result would have been.But the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, and vice verse ifthey were exchanged when they were infants and brought up in opposite homes and under different influences.3.It is consistent with all our knowledge of psychology to conclude that…We can get the conclusion that each would have grown up with just the opposite beliefs to what they have now, and this is in agreement with our knowledge of psychology…4…we should remember that the whole history of the development of human thought has been full of cases of such “obvious truths”breaking down when examined in the light of increasing knowledge and reason.When we tend to say that any general truth is obvious and to doubt it is foolish, then we should remember that in the history of the development of human thought there have been many obvious truths which break down as knowledge and reason increase.5.The age-long struggle of the greatest intellects in the world to shake off that assumption is one of the marvels of history.The great learners spent hundreds of years struggling against the assumption that the planets moved in circles. The success of getting rid of that assumption is one of the miracles in human history.6.Many modern persons find it very difficult to credit the fact that men can ever have supposed otherwise.In modern time, it is difficult for many people used to believe that human beings think not with mind but with heart.7.We adopt and cling to some beliefs because—or partly because—it “pays” us to do so. But, as a rule, the person concerned is about the last person in the world to be able to recognize this in himself.We accept and continue to hold some beliefs because—or partly because—it brings us benefits. But generally the person involved maybe the least competent in recognizing thia himself.8.There is many a man who is unconsciously compelled to cling to a belief because he is a “somebody” in some circle--There are a lot of men who unconsciously are forced to hold a belief because he is very important in a circle. If he gives up that belief, he would not be important any more.第八单元1. As the edge of a new century, globalization is a double-edged sword: a powerful vehicle…, but an immensely controversial process that assaults national sovereignty; erodes local culture and tradition and threatens economic and social instability.As the new century is coming, globalization is like a sword which has two edges: it can have both negative and positive effects. On one hand, it can increase economic production, spread newtechnology and improve the living standards of the rich and poor countries; on the other hand, it is also a very controversial process because it threatens national independency, destroys local culture and tradition, and it may cause economic and social instability.2. In 1990, private flows (bank loans, bond financing, equity investment in local stock markets and direct investment by multinational companies ) total an estimated $136 billion to these 29 countries.In 1990, the private capital (bank loans, bond financing, equity investment in local stock markets and direct investment by multinational companies ) flowing into these 29 countries is estimated to have reached a total of $136 billion.3.Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global. By trying to maximize their presence in as many nations as possible, companies seek to achieve of scale…The reason for the merger boom is that more and more companies have a strong belief that many markets have become truly global. Trying their best to enter other countries‟markets, companies are eager to realize economies of scale…4….as a result of “crony capitalism,”inept government investment policies and excess optimism……because of the corruption in those countries where political and financial resources are in the hands of a few privileged people along with their dishonest friends, their foolish government policies and unreasonable optimism…5.The street protesters… may have lacked a common agenda or even a coherent case against trade. But they… reflected the anxiety and anger that globalization often inspires.The street protesters at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization in early December may not have a common program or a good reason against free trade. But they showed clearly their worries and anger about globalization. European fears of GM food or opposition to cross-border mergers also showed their worries and anger.。
现代大学英语精读4第六单元课后习题答案
四册六单元课后习题答案Key to the exercisesVocabulary1. Translate.2) into Chinese.(1)非理性因素(2)过去的好日子(3)思想模式(4)陈旧的故事(5)思路(6)鲜明的对比(7)强烈的满足感(8)感情上的联想(9)一场恶吵(10)酸葡萄(11)—毫无根据的意见(12)社会地位(13)重要而有说服力的因素(14)怀疑的余地(15)一种教条的观点(16)大学者们／大才子们(17)不可避免的结果(18)长期的斗争(19)互相矛盾冲突的观点(20)鲜明的例子(21)根深蒂固的信仰(22)仅仅是断言2) into English.(1) to classify propositions (2) to hold an opinion(3) to establish convictions (4) to reverse the process(5) to question the truth (6) to adopt a new belief ,(7) to demonstrate the contrary (8) to credit the fact(9) to entertain an opinion (10) to acquire wealth(11) to extend the term (12) to abandon belief(13)to value their respect (14) to belittle their opinions(15) to make an allowance (16) to alter our thought patterns(17) to take the same course (18) to parrot others' ideas2. Put appropriate prepositions or adverbs in the blanks.1) out/:over 2) on/upon 3) at; about 4) off 5) on; off 6) out; as 7) as; out 8) off 9) as; out 10) on; as 11) off; as 12) at; as 13) as; out 14) out; out3. Replace the words and expressions italicized with suitable words and ex pressions from the text.1) meet with; proposition; bare assertion 2) accept a view uncritically; rests up on; mere3) deeply-rooted propositions; established 4) hold opposite views; conflicting int erests5) parroting; tend to; such ideas as fit in with 6) conceive of; consistent with 7) is also true of; make allowance for 8) stock subjects; going to the dogs9) in fashion; a strong argument in its favor 10) bear grudge against; or as the case may be11) belittle; are jealous of 12) attribute to13) As a rule; would be the last person to 14) consists in; shaking off15) In light of; on our guard 16) left us with no doubt4. Translate.1) We’ll achieve this result at any cost.2) Our economy began to grow by leaps and bounds as a result of the reformand opening- up policy.3) His repressive policies only resulted in his quick fall.4) Many of our present problems in a way result from our large population.5) The fact that you like somebody may dispose you to like his ideas also.6) So far we still have not found a safe way to dispose of nuclear waste.7) These shoes fit me perfectly. I'll take them.8) This set of furniture fits into our sitting room.9) The innkeeper found that the man fit the description of the wanted murder suspect.10) To keep fit, you should avoid eating too much salt, sugar and fat.11) The water was no longer even fit to swim in, let alone to drink.12) He was suddenly seized by a fit of laughter.13) She has had fits every now and then since she was a child.14) This subway will be extended to Cover the whole city.15) I would tike to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt thanks to you.I6) The effect of the economic reform will naturally extend to other fields.17) Many people prefer government bonds to stocks.18) This kind of jacket is out of stock.19) This is one of his stock jokes. I have heard it many times.5. Complete the following sentences.1) were brought up in a different country; think and behave like a native of t hat country.2) will produce ten million kilowatts of power annually3) that she did not care for office work 4) the boy stabbing his own father 5) postpone my retirement for another year 6) pursue her studies overseas7) go to my brother 8) why we should accept it9) give us the excuse for doing wrong things10) he had been unusually lucky to have the best learning and working conditi ons11) she had very poor health 12) school education is useless13) as 14) as 15) share my basic value16) say no 17) take money18) the rewards hey cannot get 19) good food and drink(s), sex, etc.20) of which; in which/on which/under which21) she was very angry22) we must not allow others blindly 23) teachers are also inspired by good st udents6. Give brief comments on the following, using some of the expressions list ed below.1) Not always true. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it will still bea foolish thing.Truth always has to be discovered by one individual first.2) Then why do we need to recruit workers? Why do we ask people to give us a hand?3) And how many is "too many"? Isn't this statement only one side of the sto ry?4) Are we sure it will not lead to poor efficiency?5) Time is money. What about many other things? There was a time when we believed that money was dirty and an evil monster, and now we hear that m oney is everything. Isn't it just like a fashion that comes and goes?6) To change things in what way? Can't they choose just to destroy? Isn't it p ossible that they will replace the old order with an order just as bad? Won't t hey upset social stability when stability is necessary for the whole nation?7) A popular saying during the "Cultural Revolution". But isn't it the other wa y around? Isn’t it true that the wat er of the mighty river comes from the smal l tributaries in the first place?8) But who are the people? Do the voters really have equal power and influen ce? In a country where wealth is concentrated, how can power avoid being co ncentrated too?9) This sounds pleasant in the ear, but it is not exactly true. Our arable land i s only 7% of the world’s total; pur per-capita water only one-third of the worl d’s average; timer, one-sixteenth; oil, 2% of the world's total; natural gas, 1. 2% of the world's total.10) This old saying is based on a false analogy. It is popular in a male-domin ant society.Men cling to this view not because it is true, but because it is useful to t hem.11) Not necessarily true. Good deeds should be their own reward. This old sa ying is meant to encourage people to do good, but because it is based on the concept of investment for future profits, many people refuse to make this un wise investment.7. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.(1) awful (2) story (3) likely (4) fulfilling (5) supposed(6) from (7) gain (8) done (9) when (10) about(11) in particular (12) such as (13) interpreted (14) alone (15) context Grammar2. Grammar in context.1) Study the italicized abbreviated adverbial clauses, put in the omitted pa rts, and discuss the rules used in cutting short adverbial clauses.(1) when they (the staunchest Roman Catholic and the staunchest Presbyterian) were infants(2) when they (such "obvious truths") are examined(3) when it (the assumed or dogmatic proposition) was challenged(4) if he was/were told (5) while we are doing(6) while he (this young man) was attending(7) as if he (this beanpole with hair on top) wanted to say(8) as if he did all this to check (9) as if he was remembering(10) when it is measured against the lower crime rates(11) While you are in Rome (12) Though they are poor3. Shorten the following adverbial clauses where possible.1）If elected, he will turn out to be an excellent chairman.2) The adverbial clause cannot be cut short because its subject isn’t one and t he same with that of the main clause.3) If cooked too long, much of the vitamin C in vegetables will be destroyed.4) The conditional clause cannot be shortened for the same reason as stated in 2.5) The conditional cannot be shortened for the same reason as stated in 2.6) Though a foreigner, Dr. Bethune regarded the cause of the Chinese people as his own.7) If given every attention possible, the dying man still has a chance of recov ery,8) When questioned closely and severely by the teacher, the boy admitted chea ting in the exam.9) Even though still operating, the committee won’t play as an important a role as it used to.10) The teller turned to the next customer with a smile, as though deliberately snubbing the girl.11) Beijing looks more beautiful than ever (before).12) Unless invited, don't go to those meetings.13) Albert Einstein's hair looked wild as if electrified.14) When living in the Northeast, did you ever learn to ski?15) The conditional clause cannot be shortened for the same reason ass stated in 2.16) The conditional clause cannot be shortened for the same reason ass stated in 2.4. Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in brackets.1) When young 5) When urged2) unless it is forbidden 6) When ripe3) If cooked in tomato sauce 7) If not restricted4) Once out of trouble 8) Though well over seventy9) … as if turning over some important matter in his mind10) If detected sleeping on the job/at his post/on duty5. Translate these sentences that imply a condition.1) With better medical care my grandfather could have pulled through.2) They wouldn't have been able to do better under present conditions.Or: They couldn’t have been done better under present conditions.3）Even at gunpoint I would say, “He is guilty.”4) Further delay would cause us even greater losses.5) But for the seat belt, she would have been severely injured in the acciden t.6) A man without a strong sense of justice wouldn't have brought the matter up.7) With a smaller population there might be less unemployment in the country.8) Without an experienced guide like her, we might have been trapped in the jungle.9) She is not after name and money; otherwise she wouldn't have come back.10) But for the correct policy, many Chinese peasants wouldn't have become well-off so soon.11) I wonder how many of us would have done the same in his position.12) With a more sophisticated computer we would have completed the job mu ch sooner.13) This is something you should never do. It would mean the end of your jo urnalist career.14) Without a strong will even a healthy man wouldn't have reached the top of the mountainin two hours.15) A less resourceful person wouldn’t have been able to complete the project under such unfavorable conditions.6. Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer. 1-5 AACCB 6-10 DAADC 11-16 CDABDA。
精读英译汉,paraphrase
Unit 1Paraphrase1. Ours is an era of conspicuous technological upheaval. But the purported gains of new technology----rising incomes, greater productivity----seem to elude us. (P6)1. It is obvious that technology in modern age has brought about great changes. Nevertheless, we have not yet benefited from the supposed gains of new technolo gy—rising income and greater productivity.2. Genuine thought is discouraged. The same thought-deadening process afflicts American managers. (P7)2. Creative thought is not appreciated. American managers have been troubled b y the fact that independent and active thinking gives way to dumb numbers. Translation1.这项计划为智力迟钝者提供长期的照顾。
（retarded）1. The program offers long-term care for the mentally retarded.2.他有一台又粗笨又庞大的旧电脑，速度慢，使用麻烦。
（cumbersome, bulky）2. He’s got a cumbersome, bulky, old computer—it’s slow and complicated to use.3.他沿着房间后部慢慢移动，尽量不引起别人的注意。
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paraphrase… time didn’t mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying.The villagers didn’t think time was important until perhaps when they were dying.The only timepiece we had need of then was the sun.Paraphrase: The sun was the only clock or watch we needed at that time.It wasn’t that we had no system for……the important events in our lives. Paraphrase: This does not mean that we had no way of knowing what year, or season, or day, or hour it was and of remembering when such important events as births, weddings, deaths, disasters happened.But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine-calendar, because it was framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences.… We used natural disasters to keep track of time and of the important events in our lives. This was a natural calendar, a divine calendar, for sunrise and sunset, the change of seasons, and earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences were all works of God.And that’s the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember. And that’s how we kept track of the importa nt events in our little village for as long as the oldest people could remember.Simple as our calendar was, it worked just fine for us.Paraphrase: Although our calendar was simple, this way of keeeping track of time and of the important events in our lives served our purpose well enough.You couldn’t be more accurate than that, now, could you ?Paraphra se : That’s the more accurate answer I could get.And that’s the way it was… for as far back as anybody could remember. Paraphrase: And that’s how we kept track of the important events in our little village for as long as even the oldest people could remember… because men who would not lie even to save… into Magdaluna’s calendar. Paraphrase: …because men who would not lie for any reason or purpose, not even to save their souls told and retold that story until it was included into Magdal una’s calendar.until it was incorporated into Magdaluna’s calendar.Paraphrase: until the event became one of the things by which we kept track of the important events in our lives.And sometimes the arguments escalated ……knockdown-dragout fights…Paraphrase: And sometimes the arguments became so fierce that they developed intolong and violent fights.… call each other names that made my ears tingle.Paraphrase: …the words they used when they were quarreling were such that we little boys felt un comfortable….…and Magdaluna was not going to get anywhere until it had one.Paraphrase : … and Magdaluna wouldn’t achieve any success without a telephone.A few men--- like the retired Turkish-army drill sergeant,…bought to the village. Paraphrase : A few men---like the retired Turkish-army drill sergeant, and the vineyard keeper--- tried hard to persuade Abu Raja to give up the idea of having a telephone installed in the village.… the shout went out that …Paraphrase: … the sound of someone shouting informed people that…Her house was an island of comfort,……exhausted from having so little to do. Paraphrase：Her house was a place where the village men could find comfort , just as an oasis is for weary travelers in the desert. The men sought pleasure because life in this mountain village was monotonous and boring.There was always something in it for me: a ten or even a twenty–five-piaster piece. Paraphrase : I always got paid for the errands I ran for the men: from ten to twenty-five-piasters.B ut as the days went by…… to wait by the telephone.Paraphrase : But as the days went by, the men gradually deserted Im Kaleem’s house, and they begin to gather together at Abu Raja’s store to wait by the telephone.At Abu Raja’s dikkan, the calls did ……then two, then bunches.Paraphrase : Finally news came over the telephone from relatives or friends that there were jobs open to the villagers, people began to leave the village, first one by one, then in small numbers, then in large groups.Magdaluna became a skeleton of ite former self,……a place to get away from. Paraphrase : With the healthy, the young, and the able –bodied all gone, Magdaluna was not what it had been . The house, the streets and the store were there, but they were no longer alive with laughter and the loud voice of the men talking, laughing, and arguing. It became a much-deserted place, a place to escape from, a graveyard or cemetery.。