现代大学英语精读5 复习资料.doc

Lesson 1Paragraph 1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in its best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individuals ability and talents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).6. the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.8. when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with.9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talks about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.Lesson 3Paraphrase1. Yet globalization “is a reality, not a choice”.Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign cultural assault.3. where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper handin China, the two trends of closed-door and open-door policies have long been struggling for dominance.4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work.The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences.5. Westernization is a phenomenon shot with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows.westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.6. You dont have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you dont need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.7. He was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet, with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising 100,000.The Gucci store didnt expect that in the first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good.9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture.From the very beginning I knew I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global culture as globalization, to guide me through such a great variety of cultural phenomena.10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.Lesson 6Paraphrase1. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.The fact that we do not have evidence showing that there is life beyond earth does not mean that we can come to the conclusion that there is actually no life beyond earth.2. examining them for the atmospheric signatures of a living world.examining this planet to see if the surrounding atmosphere can be identified as fitting for life.3. The optimists figure its only a matter of time before we tune in the right channel.The optimists think that (it is only a matter of time) as time goes on, they will someday get the signal sent out by an alien civilization.4. Thats what we need to begin the long process of putting human existence in its true cosmic context.Originally, we regard our world as the only one in the universe which is inhabited by intelligent humans, but we need to change our view and regard this world as one of many in the universe.5. True believers and skeptics rarely go over to the other side.Neither those who genuinely believe that space aliens are lurking in our midst nor those who firmly reject such an idea are unlikely to change their views and join the other side.6. The alien is a Hollywood stock character but not a Hollywood creation.The alien is a character used too much in Hollywood films so it has become hackneyed, but the idea of extraterrestrial life was not first brought up by Hollywood.7. the absence of detectable life on Mars put exobiology into a two-decade funk.the fact that no life had been detected on Mars was a terrible blow to exobiology which did not recover from the blow in the following twenty years.8. Everyone realized the historical glory of being right about these purported microfossilsand the reciprocal tarnish of being wrong.Everyone knew that if what appeared to be microfossils were confirmed to be such, then the discovery would be of historic significance; but if they proved to be something else, the adverse effect that followed would be equally dramatic.9. if you rewound the tape of terrestrial evolution and played it again, youd wind up with a genetically identical human being the second time around.if evolution on earth were to take place a second time, a human being who is genetically similar to us would be the result of such evolution.10. So before we worry about out dealings with the Galactic Empire, we have some serious fieldwork to do closer to home.Since there is so much work we need to do here in this world. Let us first concentrate on doing some solid research, let us first concentrate on doing some solid research and drop discussions about drafting messages to another civilization out there.Lesson 9Paragraph1. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years.Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event.4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the greatest moment of their history.5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on foot, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6. From one point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.7. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.8. Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes one see far and broadens ones horizon.9. Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below; they must wean their blood from the northern winter and hold the mountains a while longer in their view.They would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they did not wants to lose sight of the mountains so soon.10. I was never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all merely custom and company.I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, add which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.11. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room she seemed beyond the reach of time. But that was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again.In this way she was entranced in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless (what she represented would last forever).12. The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude.On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk among themselves. Their gossip revealed their position as servants of men and also a reward for their servitude.Lesson 10 Paragraph:1. We still remember that assassinated world as idyllic, secure., we will speak of it in the reverent tones reserved for the dead.In our memory , the pre-September 11 world was peaceful ,happy and safe (overlooking the fact that this was not the case) and we will talk about those days with a feeling of deep respect and love which can only be found in talking about dead people.2. .the spoils of war include some of our most cherished values and liberties.In order to win the war, we might have to give up some of our basic values and liberties we treasure most. 3. who are attempting to colonize the future with their own repressive agenda?who are planning to carry out the plan to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach, hence, the colonization of the future.4. which assumes the public is thinking in red, white and blue, when actually the spectrum of emotions, ideas and opinions is, like America itself, multihued.which thinks that people the public is thinking simply and uniformly, in new patriotism, but fails to recognize that the emotions, ideas and the emotions, ideas and opinions are as varied as the country itself.5. We too are mired near the bottom of Maslows pyramid, struggling to regain our lost sense of safety and security.The terrorist attacks put the American at the bottom of the pyramid according to Maslows scheme, trying to regain their sense of physical safety, the lowest type of safety.6. it is something we associate with repressive regimes, not with participat