现代大学英语精读5、6重点课后paraphrase

Lesson21. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best.2. I had new thoughts , willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of wonts. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. The girl was Shirley Templelike, slightly rude but in an amusing way.4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.5. And T could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her selfcontrol would collapse, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Lesson 3 1. 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 closeddoor and opendoor 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 selfcontradiction 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 do not 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 did not 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 know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me through such a 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 2The woods were tossing with jewels1. But these marks of wild country called to may father like the legendary siren song. Though the place was not pleasant or disagreeable, 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 disaster might befall us if it did. As a little girl, I believed my fathers words, and was 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. In this place, though the police wound make some effort without 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 strangleholdand even governors that our state was to suffer through its history. 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 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. 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 hissat at a table more sumptuous than ours was three times a day. 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 of school indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine. 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. Lesson 7 Inaugural address1/ For man holds in his mortal hands.and all forms of human life.As a result of technological development, human belongs now have the power to put an end to poverty and human, misery, but at the same time they also possess the power to destroy the whole world, rendering it uninhabitable and lifeless. 2/.unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights.We do not want to see or to allow the slow destruction of those human rights.3. To those peoples in the huts and villages of half.of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves.To the people of the underdeveloped countries living in poverty in rural areas, we are committed to helping them to rid themselves of mass poverty by their own efforts.4/But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.But we should not let any communist power take advantage of this alliance for progress to expand its influence.5/And let every other power know that this.of its own house.We want to make clear to the communist powers that Americas are the Americas of the Americans. Do not attempt to penetrate into this area.6/.before the dark powers of destruction. or accidental self-destruction.Before the world is destroyed by a nuclear war launched in a preemptive attack or caused by accident.7/.yet both raing to alter the uncertain.of mankinds final war.Yet both sides attempt to get an edge in the nuclear arms race so as to break the mutual deterrence which has so far prevented the outbreak of a nuclear war.8/.civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.To be ready to negotiate and establish friendly relations does not mean that we are weak or afraid. Declarations of sincere intention have to be tested by actions.9/Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.Let the two sides use the fruits of science for the benefit of humanity rather than using high-tech weapons to kill and destroy.10.each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.There have been occasions for each generation of Americans to be called upon to fight and die for their country.Lesson 8 A rose for Emily1. But garages and cotton gins had .of that neighborhood.The street used to house only the best families. But then great changes took place: garages and cotton gins 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.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, the ladies said.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.The griersons regarded themselves as very important and the outside world as vulgar 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 the two different worlds and compelled Miss Emily to deal with the outside world.5. The next day the received two more.in diffident deprecation.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.a little too high for what the really were.People in the town felt that the Grierson family regarded themselves more important than they really deserved to be. The fact that miss Emily 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.Ordinary people 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 the town.8. But there were still other, older people, who.without calling it noblesse oblige.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 obligations as a member of the nobility, though a real lady would no