高级英语2第三版课后习题paraphrase原文及答案

Lesson 1

1．And it is an activity only of humans.

And it is a human unique activity．

2．Conversation is not for making a point.

Conversation is not to convince others．

3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to be lose.

In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are willing to be lose.

friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.

Bar friends are not deeply concerned with each other’s private lives.

5....it could still go ignorantly on...

The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong．

6. There are cattle in the field, but we sit down to beef.

These animals are called cattle in English, when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef in French．

7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.

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The new ruling class had caused the cultural contradictions between the ruling class and native English by regarding French superior to English.

had come royally into its own.

English had gained recognition by the King．

9．The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.

The phrase, the king’s English has always been used disrespectfully and made fun by the lower classes.

10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.

There is still opposition to cultural monopoly.

11. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us”

We tend to make the mistake that we regard the things as they represent.

12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.

Even the most educated and literated people will not always use the formal English in their conversation．

Lesson 2

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1. The burying--ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.

The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth, looking like a deserted construction land.

2.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.

All colonial empires are built by exploiting the local people.

3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.

They are born. Then they work hard without enough food for a few years. Finally they die and are buried in the hills graves without any mark to identify them.

4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed.

A carpenter sits crossing his legs at an old-fashioned lathe, making round chair-legs very fast.

5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.

Immediately, Jews rushed out of their dark hole-like rooms nearby in a frenzy madness.

one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.

Every one of these Jews considers the cigarette as a somewhat piece of luxury which they can not possibly afford.

7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

However, a white-skinned European is easy to notice in a fair way.

8. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human being.

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Against the background of a tropical landscape, people could notice everything but they cannot see local people.

9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas

No one would propose the cheap trips to the slums．

10．...for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. The real life of nine-tenths of the people is that there is no end to their extremely hard work in order to get a little food from an eroded soil．

11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.

She took it for granted that as an old woman she should work like an animal．

with brown skins are next door to invisible.

People who have brown skins are almost invisible．

13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms...

The soldiers wore second—hand khaki uniforms which covered their beautiful well—built bodies．

14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction

How long will it take for them to attack us？

15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.

It is certain that every white man realized this.

Lesson3

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yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe...

And yet the same revolutionary belief which is the aim of our ancestors is still in dispute around the world.