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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高级英语第二册1-6单元paraphrase问题及答案Lesson One Face to Face with Hurricane CamilleLesson One Face to Face with Hurricane Camille1.Were elevated 23 feet. We re 23 feet above sea level.2. The plac

2、e has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bother it.The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3. We can batten down and ride it out.We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. The generator was douse,

3、 and the lights went out.Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody out the back door to the cars!Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.6. The electrical systems had been killed by water.The electrical

4、systems in the car had been put out by water.7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. Get us

5、 through this mess, will you?Please God, please help us to get through this storm safely.9. She carried on alone for a few bars; the her voice trailed away.Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.10. Janis had just one delayed reaction.Janis dis

6、played rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.Lesson Two Marrakech1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.The burning-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth lo

7、oking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up. 2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals (by not treating the people in the colonies as

8、human beings). 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 for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name. 4. A carpenter sits crossle

9、gged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed. Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. Immediately f

10、rom their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited. 6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford. 7. Still, a white

11、skin is always fairly conspicuous. However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable. 8. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings.If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would thi

12、nk of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for these trips 42V. would not be interesting)10for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food

13、 out of an eroded soil.life is very hard for ninety percent of the peopleWith hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil11She 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 was the lowest in the co

14、mmunity，that。she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal12People with brown skins are next door to invisible.People with brown skins are almost invisible13Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms.The Senegales soldiers were wearing readymade khaki uniforms which hid

15、 their beautiful wellbuilt bodies14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?。15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.Every white man，the onlookers，the officers on their hors

16、es and the white NCOsmarching with the black soldiers，had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mindlesson31. And it is an activity only of humans.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings(Animals and birds are not capable of conversation)2. Conversation is not f

17、or making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view 3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of v

18、iew4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others livesPeople who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each others lives5. it could still go ignorantly onThe conversation could go on without anybody knowing w

19、ho was right or wrong6. There are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef. These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eatwe call their meat beef 7.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building t

20、heir French against his own language.The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the、rulers8.English had come royally into its own. The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more9. T

21、he phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. The phrase，the Kings English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people10. The r

22、ebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class11. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us.”There is always a great dang

23、er that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to representFor example，the word “dog” is a symbol representing a kind of animalWe mustnt regard the word “dog” as being the animal itself12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the Kings En

24、glish slips and slides in conversation. Even the most educated and literate people do not use standard，formal English all the time in their conversationLesson Four Inaugural Address1.Andyetthesamerevolutionarybelietforwhichourforebearsfoughtisstillatissuearoundtheglobe.Our ancestors fought a revolut

25、ionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world. 2. Thismuchwepledge-andmoreThis much we promise to do and we p

26、romise to do more. 3 .United,thereislittlewecannotdoinahostofcooperativeventuresUnited and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings. 4.ButthispeacefulrevolutionofhopecannotbecomethepreyofhostilepowersWe will not allow any enemy country to subvert thi

27、s peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries. 5.ourlastbesthopeinanagewheretheinstrumentsofwarhavefaroutpacedtheinstrumentsofpeaceThe United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace. 6

28、.toenlargetheareainwhichitswritmayrunWe pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force. 7beforethedarkpowersofdestructionunleashedby science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destrucionbefore the terrib

29、le forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place8.yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind final war. Yet both groups of nations

30、are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankinds final war.9.so let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness So let us start once again (to discuss and negotiate) a

31、nd let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.10. let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.11.each generation of America

32、n has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their countrys cause).12.with a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds ,let us

33、 go forth to lead the land we love . Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability.Lesson6 1. science is committed to the universal . Science is engaged in the task

34、of making its basic concepts understood and accepted by scientists all over the world. 2. The fiesta appears to have sunk without a trace .The car model, called Fiesta, seems to have disappeared completely. 3. It was the automotive equivalent of the international style.The idea of a world car is sim

35、ilar to the idea of having a world style for architecture. /As architecture was moving toward a common International Style, it was natural for the automobile to do the same. 4.as in architecture, so in automaking. Things that are happening in auto making are similar to those happening in architectur

36、e. 5.no longer quite an individual ,no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture. The modern man no longer has very distint individual traits shaped by a special environment and culture 6The price he pay is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the world.The disad

37、vantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he loses a home in the old sense of the world 7The benefit is that he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense is another name for limitations.The benefit of being a cosmopolitan is that he begins to think the old kind of home probably restricts his dev

38、elopment and activities 8The universalization imperative of technology is irresistible.The compelling force of technology to universalize cannot be resisted 9When every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel tower, as a protest against the architectural blasphemy.When ev

39、ery artist thought it was his duty to show his contempt for and objection to the Eiffel Tower which they considered an irreverent architectural structure 10A mobile, extra human plasticity which was absolutely new.a flexible and pliable quality that was beyond human powers and absolutely new 11It ha

40、s thus undermined an article of faith: the thingliness of things .People used to firmly believe that the things they saw around them were real solid substances but this has now been thrown into doubt by science, 12That ,perhaps ,establishes the logical limit of the modern aesthetic.That，perhaps, shows how far logically modern aesthetic can go -