高级英语第二册1、2、3、4、7课paraphrase答案

1、Lesson 11. Were elevated 23 feet. (para3)Were 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)We can make

2、 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! (para 10)Ever

3、ybody 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 its way up the

4、 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 voice trailed away

5、. (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-ground is merely

6、a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict 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 in reality founde

7、d 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 the nameless mound

8、s 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 using a very old

9、-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. every one of th

10、em 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 always quite noticea

11、ble. 8. In a tropical landscape ones eye 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 would think of or

12、ganizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum 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 percent of the p

13、eopleWith hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil11She 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 doing heavy work like an

14、animal 12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. (para21)People with brown skins are almost invisible13Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms, (para23)The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies14

15、. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? (para25)How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?15Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. (para26)Every white man，the onlookers，the officers on their horses and the white N.C

16、.Os. marching with the black soldiers，had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mindLesson 31And 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 conversation) 2Conversation is not for making a

17、 point. (para2)Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view 3In 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 win or force others to accept his point of

18、 view 4Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others 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 others lives5. it could still go ignorantly on (para6)The conversation could go on without

19、 anybody knowing who was right or wrong6There 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 eatwe call their meat beef 7. The new ruling class had built a cultural b

20、arrier against him by building their French 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 rulers8English had come royally into its own. (para13)The English language received proper re

21、cognition 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 Kings English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes The working people very often make fun of the pr

22、oper and formal language of the educated people10. 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 of the ruling class11. There is always a great danger that “w

23、ords will 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 representFor example，the word “dog” is a symbol representing a kind of animalWe mustnt regard the word “dog” as being the animal

24、 itself12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the Kings English slips and slides in conversation. (para18) Even the most educated and literate people do not use standard，formal English all the time in their conversationLesson 41. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our fo

25、rebears 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 away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many c

26、ountries around the world. 2. This much we pledgeand 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 together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertaki

27、ngs. 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 best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the

28、 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 pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its autho

29、rity 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 self-destruction (para11) Before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this s

30、elf-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place8. yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankinds final war (para13)Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible m

31、ilitary power which restrains each group from launching mankinds 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 negotiate) and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness. 10. Le

32、t 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. (para21) Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loy

33、alty to their country (by fighting and dying for their countrys 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 history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure rewar

34、d 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 travelled through the region. 2. But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalli

35、ng 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 makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lot appear as a ghast

36、ly, 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. They have taken as their model a brick set on end. (para3)The model they foll

37、owed 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)These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their

38、 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 color of a rotten egg. 8. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with som

39、e 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 and incessant prayer. (para5)I have given Westmoreland the highest

40、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 fantas