高级英语第二册1、2、3、4、7课paraphrase答案(精选.)

1、Lesson 11. We're elevated 23 feet. (para3)We're 23 feet above sea level.2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. (para 3) 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. (para 4)

2、We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out. (para 9)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! (p

3、ara 10) Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.6. The electrical systems had been killed by water. (para 11) The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt. (para17) As John watched the water inch

4、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 through this mess, will you? (para17)Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.9. She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voic

5、e trailed away. (para 21) Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.10. Janis had just one delayed reaction. (para 34)Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.Lesson 21. The burying-gr

6、ound is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelictword.building-lot. (para2)The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.2. All colonial empires are

7、 in reality founded upon that fact. (para3)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 human beings).3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into t

8、he nameless mounds of the graveyard. (para3)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 crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed. (para9)Sitting with his legs crossed and

9、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. (para10) Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.6.

10、 every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. (para10)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 skin is always fairly conspicuous. (para16)However, a white -skinned European is alway

11、s quite noticeable.8. In a tropical landscape one esye takes in everything except the human beings. (para16)If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. (para17) No one wo

12、uld think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poorslum areas (for these trips would not be interesting) 10. for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. (para17)life is very hard for ninety p

13、ercent of the people With hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil 11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden. (para19)She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community ， that she was only fit for doin

14、g heavy work like an animal 12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. (para21) People with brown skins are almost invisible 13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-own khaki uniforms, (para23) The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beau

15、tiful well-built bodies 14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? (para25) 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. (para26)Every white man， the onlookers ， the officers o

16、n their horses and the white N.C.Os. marching with the black soldiers ， had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind Lesson 31 And it is an activity only of human. (para1)And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings (Animals and birds are not capable of conversati

17、on )2 Conversation is not for making a point. (para2)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. (para2) In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to wi

18、n or force others to accept his point of view 4 Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other s lives. (para3)People 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 other's lives 5 it could still go ignorantly

19、 on(para6)The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong6 There are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf). (para9)These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields ； but when we sit down at the table to eat we call their meat b

20、eef 7 The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building theirFrench against his own language. (para11)The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers 8 English had come royally into its ow

21、n. (para13)The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more9 The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. (para15)The phrase， the King's English ， has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower

22、 classes The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people 10 The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. (para15)There still exists in the working people ， as in the early Saxon peasants， a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority o

23、f the ruling class 11 There is always a great danger that “ wordswill harden into things for us. ” (para18)There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent For example， the word “ dog” is a symbol representing a k

24、ind of animal We mustn't regard the word “ dog” as being the anima l itself12 Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King s English slips andslides in conversation. (para18)Even the most educated and literate people do not use standard ， formal English all the time in their conve

25、rsation Lesson 41. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe. (para2)Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take

26、 away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world.2. This much we pledge and more. (para5)This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. (para6) United and working togethe

27、r we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.4. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (para9)We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.5. our last

28、best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace (para10)The 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. to enlarge the area in which its writ may run(para10)We p

29、ledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.7. - before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental selfdestruction (para11)Before the terrible forces of destructi

30、on, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned orbrought about by an accident, takes place8. yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind' s final war (para13)Yet both groups of nations are tryi

31、ng to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war.9. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness,(para14)So let us start once again (to discuss and negoti

32、ate) and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness. 10. 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 Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. (par

33、a21)Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country's cause).12 . With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,(para27)Let hist

34、ory 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.Lesson 71. boy and man, I had been through it often before. (para1)As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had often tr

35、avelled through the region.2. But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling desolation. (para1)But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and wretched this whole region was.3. it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke. (para1) This dreadful scene

36、 makes all human endeavors to advance and improve theirlot appear as a ghastly, saddening joke.4. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. (para3) The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.5. Th

37、ey have taken as their model a brick set on end. (para3)The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright./ All the houses they built looked like bricks standing upright.6. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof. (para3)

38、These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope.7. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. (para4)When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the c

39、olor of a rotten egg.8. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity. (para4)Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time./ Even in a steel town, old red bricks still appear pleasing to the eye.9. I award this championship only after laborious research

40、 and incessant prayer. (para5)I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.10. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical. ( para5)They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they become almost fiendish and wicked. When one looks back at these houses whose ugliness is so fantastic and biz