高级英语Lesson8Amoreperfectu.ppt

Exercises I. Paraphrases 1.The Constitution that was drawn up at the Constitutional Convention was signed but the issue of slave trade was not completely solved, so that the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement of the Constitution. 2. My personal background and my success story, rising from rags to riches, also teaches me the importance of unity.,Unit 9 A More Perfect Union,3. Im deeply ingrained, through my experience in the United States, with the idea that America is not a total adding of everything together, but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed. 4. In spite of all the announcements that America was not ready for a black president, that I would fail in the campaign, we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign, which showed that the American people demanded unity and change. 5. People were encouraged to judge me from the perspective of a black candidate, raising the question of whether the United States would fare better with a black president. However, we won great victories in some of the most conservative states, states with stronger racial bias,6. The week before the democrats were to select their delegates to the national convention in South Carolina, attacks on me, and on blacks, were more frequent and more intense. 7. At the end of the entire range of opinion, there are people who say that I decided to run because I wanted to show black and white should have equal opportunity and I wanted to play on the desires of nave liberals to achieve racial harmony without making great effort.,8. It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is impossible for me to repudiate the black community. II. Translation. Part A 1. He dismissed the story circulating on the internet as a joke. 2. Mark Twains “Running for Governor” is a famous short story.,3. We should reach out without reservation to those who suffer from disasters. 4. Given their lack of experience, their work should be considered as above average. 5. She grew up in a community where the inhabitants were predom