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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-date现代大学英语6-课后习题paraphrase原文及答案现代大学英语6-课后习题paraphrase原文及答案Unit11. Virtue is . self-centered. Key: By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2. (Poverty) was a product

2、of their excessive fecundity. Key: The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3. .the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration. Key: The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of sol

3、ving the problem.4. It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God. Key: It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature of to human society.5. It declined in popularity, and references to its acquired a condemnatory tone. Key: People beg

4、an to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism.6. .the search for a way of getting the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it was onl

5、y suspended. Key: The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned; it had only been put off.7. .only rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, and toilet seats.Key: Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare t

6、hat some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.8. This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction. It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.9. Belief can be the servant of truth-but even more of convenience. Key: Belief can be use

7、ful in the search for truth, but more often than not it is accepted because it is convenient and self-serving.10. George Gilder. Who tells to much applause that the poor must have the cruel spur of their own suffering to ensure effort.Key: George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suff

8、er from great misery will they be stimulated to make great efforts to change the situation, in other words, suffering is necessary to force the poor to work hard.Unit21. But these marks of wild country called to may father like the legendary siren song. Key: Though the place was not pleasant or disa

9、greeable, my father was deeply attracted to it precisely because of its unexplored, uncultivated natural state, and the challenge.2. Im afraid the days going to catch us, I explained, wondering what great disaster might befall us if it did. Key: As a little girl, I believed my fathers words, and was

10、 genuinely afraid of the possible disaster-if we didnt hurry up, the day would catch us and terrible things might happen.3. .from time to time he was halfheartedly sought for trial, though few crimes seemed to lead directly to his door.Key: In this place, though the police wound make some effort wit

11、hout real earnest to investigate Watson and bring him to court, there seemed to be little concrete evidence to prove that he was responsible for certain illegal activities.4. The stranglehold Watson had over this section of Florida was not dissimilar to the unscrupulous activities of certain lawmen,

12、 other legal crooks, and even governors that our state was to suffer through its history.Key: The control Watson had over this part of Florida was much similar to the dishonest or illegal activities of the law-enforcing officials and governors which Florida witnessed in the 20th century.5. There was

13、 the little shack, not the most gracious of living quarters, and there was a murderer for our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles away.Key: Before the family built their own house, they lived in a shabby cabin at Gopher Key, close to the merciless Watson.6. King Richard in his gluttony nev

14、er sat at a table more sumptuous than ours was three times a day. Key: We had abundant food on the island, and even the meals enjoyed by King Richard, who was famous for his love of food, couldnt possibly compare with ours.7. Despite the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be let off from our hours o

15、f school indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine. Key: Although it was very hot outside in the sun, we were happy to be dismissed from my mothers sessions indoors. we would have to read and write with her every day no matter what the weather was like. Unit31. Even droughts,

16、floods and heat waves may become unwitting acts of man. Key: What people do may unintentionally cause droughts, floods and heat waves.2. But this image, now repeatedly thrust before us in photographs, posters, and advertisements, is misleading. Key: The Earth we see in photos, posters, and ads, whic

17、h appears so beautiful, is not the true reflection of the world we live in, such image lulls us into complacency.3. The technosphere has become sufficiently large and intense to alter the natural processes that govern the ecosphere.Key: Human activities have taken place over such large areas and wit

18、h such intensity that they have already caused disastrous effects on ecology.4. .which could establish itself only because it fitted properly into the preexisting system. Key: the fish could play its role because it became a necessary link with the processes preceding it and the processes following

19、it in the ecological system.5. Defined so narrowly, it is no surprise that cars have properties that are hostile to their environment. Key: When cars are produced to serve such narrow purposes, it is not surprising that some of their characteristic qualities are harmful to the environment.6. Yields

20、rose, but not in proportion to the rate of fertilizer application. Key: the farmer applied more and more fertilizer, and the production did rise but did not increase at the same rate of the fertilizer.7.their waste is flushed into the sewer system altered in composition but not in amount at treatmen

21、t plant. Key: People eat plants and animals, and their waste is flushed into the sewer system. After being processed, the waste is still waste. the residue will go into rivers, oceans, and will have harmful effect on the aquatic ecosystem.8. Left to their own devices, ecosystems are conservative. Ke

22、y: If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the same with very little change9. In contrast to the ecosphere, the technosphere is composed of objects and materials that reflect a rapid and relentless process of change and variation. Key: The characteristics of the object

23、s and materials in the technosphere are rapid change and great variety.10. But this is done only at the cost of understanding. Key: if we take side in the war of the two words, we are doing so at the risk of failing to have a clear understanding of the nature and cause of the war, thus, we lose the

24、chance to really solve the grave environmental crisis.Unit 4 Nettles1. How all my own territory would be altered, ad if a landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike. Key: The impact of Mikes leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didnt expect that Mikes le

25、aving would have such a tremendous power that it would change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of Mike.2. During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the womans mind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelled to discus

26、s Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and The Cocktail Party. Key: At that time, we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life full of confusion and bewilderment caused by giving birth to and raising babies. and our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to fee

27、d the babies and things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T. S. Eliots sophisticated work The Cocktail Party.3. .I would be frightened, not of any hostility but of

28、a kind of nonexistence. Key: I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbors visibly hostile and violent way of life, but by a kind of formless and hidden emptiness and meaninglessness of human existence. What happened around me was totally irrelevant to me, and I felt very isolate

29、d and alienated.4. She did not ask me-was it delicacy or disapproval? -about my new life. Key: She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval for my new life style.5. It would be a sleazy thing to do, in the

30、house of his friends. Key: It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.6. I knew now that he was a person who had hit rock bottom. Key: I knew that he was a person who had experienced the worst in life, the hardest experience a person might have t

31、o endure.7. He and wife knew that together and it bound them, as something like that would either break you apart or bind you, for life. Key: They experienced the worst together and they knew what it was like and understood the meaning of that experience. Such an experience posed the gravest test to

32、 people. If they stood the test, their friendship or marriage would be strengthened, and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. But if they failed the test, their relationship would be broken and they would be driven apart.8. Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle, an under

33、ground resource. With the weight of this now stillness on it, this seal.Key: If they acted on love, they would take risks. they wouldnt do that or go further in their relationship, but they would rather let their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would flow on gently and permanently, and as an u

34、nderground resource, which would never be fully tapped but would never go dry. Unit 81、But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood.1. The street used to be house only the best families. But then great changes took place: garages and cotton gi

35、ns were established on the street and their existence wiped out the aristocratic traces in that neighborhood .2、 Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity.2. It would not be true to say that miss Emily would have accepted charity. 3、 “Just as if a man -any man -could keep a kitchen properly,”t

36、he lady said.3. What the ladies said meant that they did not in the least believe a man, any man, could keep a kitchen properly. 4、 It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.4. The Griersons regarded themselves as very important and the outside world as v

37、ulgar and full of people inferior to them. They belonged to two entirely different worlds. However, the complaints about the smell served as a link between two different worlds and compelled Miss Emily to deal with the outside world.5、 The nest day he received two more complaints,one from a man who

38、came in diffident deprecation.5. The next day the mayor received two more complaints. One of them was from a man who came and pleaded to the mayor in a shy and timid way.6、 People in our town,remembering how old lady Wyatt,her great-aunt,had gone completely crazy at last,believed that the Griersons

39、held themselves a little too high for what they really were.6. People in the town felt that Miss Emilys great-aunt, old lady wyatt, had gone crazy had to do with this blind, excessive self-importance.7、 Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.7. Ordinary peo

40、ple often become excited or worried when they get a penny more or a penny less. Being poor, now she would learn to appreciate the value of money like other people in then town.8、 But there were still others,older people, who said that even grief could not cause a teal lady to forger noblesse oblige-

41、without calling it noblesse oblige.8. But there were still others, older people, who said that no matter how sad Miss Emily was (over her father death ),she should not forget she had certain obligation as a member of the nobility, though a real lady would not describe her self-restraint by the expre

42、ssion noblesse oblige.9、 We were glad because the two female cousins were even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been.9. We were glad because the two cousins were even more stubborn and self-important than Miss Emily.10、 .and the very old men.confusing time with its mathematical progression,as

43、the old do,to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but,instead,a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches,divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.10. And the very old man confused the dates and years of past happenings. To the old people, all t

44、he past should be like a road that becomes smaller and smaller as it reaches further back. But to those old southerners, the recent past ten years or so was like a bottleneck, a narrow passage, or a tunnel. Beyond that narrow passage, the remote past because a huge level meadow where things were ple

45、asantly and fondly mixed up together. Like the green grass on the meadow never touched by the winter, their memories of the remote past remained blurred, sweet, romanticized, and unchanged. Lesson 91 Perhaps because they dont have hometowns, just places where they were born. But these girls soak up

46、the juice of their hometowns, and it never leaves them.Key: This is perhaps because they only have places of birth, but not places where they feel at home and which they identify themselves with. But these girls are strongly influenced by their hometown, and the influence stays with them forever eve

47、n after they leave their hometown.2 Wherever it erupts, this Funk, they wipe it away; where it crusts, they dissolve it; wherever it drips, flowers, or clings, they find it and fight it until it dies.Key: The brown girls try hard to repress their emotions and passions. However, these natural human e

48、motions cannot be wiped out totally. Sometimes they will emerge and burst out. And they will develop, become stronger and stay with them. So wherever and whenever this funk bursts out, the brown girls will do their best to stifle it.3 As long as his needs were physical, she could meet them-comfort and satiety.Key: If his needs were physical, she could meet them