现代大学英语4 Paraphrase答案1.doc

Paraphrase in Lesson 11. Everybody, except me, was born with the ability to think.2. You could hear the wind was caught in his chest, and the fresh air had to struggle with difficulty to find its way to his chest because he was unfamiliar with this. He would be thrown off balance, and his face would turn pale. He would return unsteadily to his desk and fall down in his chair, unable to do anything for the rest of the morning.3. At that time, it seemed to me that he was not controlled by thought, and it was the working of his genes that compelled him to turn his head toward young girls.4. Practically, grade-three thinking is as incompetent as most businessmens golf, as dishonest with most politicians speech, as incoherent as most publications.5. Grade-three thinkers usually represent the great majority. We had better respect them because we are fewer in number and surrounded by them.6. It is human nature to enjoy agreement because it may bring peace, comfort and harmony, just as cows will eat the same part of grass as the same way as the others do.7. Our Prime Minister would talk about the great benefits we provided to India, while at the same time our government put people like Nehru and Gandhi into prison. American politicians would talk about peace, while meanwhile they refused to join the League of Nations. Yes, to see these ridiculous examples of grade-three thinkers, as a grade-two thinker, there is temporary satisfaction.8. I put my arm around Ruths waist quietly and said in a low voice that if we took the number of people into consideration, I would bet the Buddhists were the greatest in number. She escaped because my touch and the thought of the great number of Buddhists were more than she could accept.9. What had happened to Ruth and I now happened again and again. I had some good friends who supported me and share the same belief with me. But my grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances.Paraphrase in Lesson 21. Bella was young and pretty and was seen as the beauty of the boarding-house, but no one had shown any particular interest in her.2. Mr. Penbury was intelligent, but no one in the boarding-house liked him for that. (He was too smart for them, and everybody felt annoyed.)3. But Mrs. Mayton would not tolerate any silence for more than three minutes. So when no one broke the silence within three minutes she lost her patience and, turning to Penbury and asked.4. Mr. Calthrop was urging Mr. Penbury to give an answer immediately so that he would not have the time to make up a story.5. The weapon went through Mr. Wainwrights heart.6. We all know you are a sleep walker, so you may commit the murder in your sleep.7. Mr. Penbury advises Mr. Calthrop not to put so much emphasis on his statement when talking to the police if he does not want to arouse their suspicion about his story.8. “No,” Miss Wicks answered, “I have come to put an end to your cough.”Paraphrase in Lesson 31. For most students, they begin their study of history with a thick textbook in which there are a great number of names, dates and statistics for them to remember.2. Superficially, history seems to be a routine matter of memorization. But since there are different conclusions because historians view the past from a different perspective, history becomes a matter of choosing one of the best explanations. In this way, historical truth becomes a matter of personal likes or dislikes.3. Students cannot help feeling that two completely differently points of view about an event cannot both be true, but they do not have the ability to judge which one is true.4. Historians will find out information about the catching of the “Zimmerman Note”, a coded communiqu from the German Foreign Secretary to the German Minister in Mexico. According to the “Note”, if the war broke out, the German Minister should propose a German-Mexican alliance to the Mexican government to fight against the U.S. By means of this, Germany would give Mexico generous financial support, and help her to re-conquer her lost territories from the U.S.5. Can we get rid of all disagreement? We can if our knowledge could give us a perfect model that completely explained human behavior. Unfortunately no such model has ever existed.Paraphrase in Lesson 41. “My relatives and friends persuaded me not to go to the ceremony personally because it was too risky. At last, I decided so too.”2. “Im only a sculptor and I was not interested in politics.”3. “When black folks in Orlando drank brandy, frequently they had to put back their head and drink it up in one gulp in order to avoid police detection, and because brandy is a very strong drink, you gradually develop a very strong throat like a throat of iron.”4. “So I thought Id go and see the window, and enjoy secretly some pleasant feelings feelings of pride for ones genius.”5. “You may not know that this sculpture was made by a black person like you.”6. “The mother in the sculpture knows that there will be much suffering waiting for her and her baby.”7. “I dont want to have a drink because it is very late now. As a black man, I am not allowed to stay in the city late at night.”8. He wasnt caring about other peoples opinion concerning his walking along with such a black man like me.9. Simelane didnt want the young white man to know he was educated, for he knew if he said “yes”, the stranger would naturally want to know how far he had gone.10. I didnt expect that I had to have my drink in the corridor. You may be thinking that it was an insult to have me drink in the passage instead of inviting me into their apartment, to sit down and drink properly. Yes, I was feeling that way. But there was something else. I was also afraid that one of the cold, unfriendly doors might open at any moment and someone might see me in this “whites only” building, drinking with a white man and breaking the laws on drinking.11. “I felt proud of the beautiful scenery of our country, but I also felt sorry about its Apartheid laws.”12. It looked as if these white people wanted to forget the racial difference and to know me, but its a pity they do not know how. The invisible barrier was still there between the white and the black.13. I thought I was a pity that the young white man had been influenced