从张汉熙的《高级英语》新旧两个版本里，选了一些Paraphrase的句子附上了答案，个别翻译硕士院校会考这个题，基本方法之前讲过，这个做训练材料。考研找喵大，准没错
第一组：从旧版本筛选的题目 - 答案仅供参考
Paraphrase
1. We are elevated 23 feet.(Para.3)
2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.(Para.3)
3. We can batten down and ride it out.(Para.4)
4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out.(Para4)
5. Everybody out the back door to the cars!(Para.11)
6. The electrical systems had been killed by waters.(Para.11)
7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt.(Para.17)
8. Get us through this mess, will You?(Para.17)
9. She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away.(Para.21)
10. Janis had just one delayed reaction.(Para.34)
参考答案
1. We’re 23 feet above sea level.
2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.
3. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.
4. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.
5. Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.
6. The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.
7. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilty because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.
8. Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.
9. Grandmother Koshaksang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.
10. Janis didn’t show any fear on the spot during the storm, but she revealed her feelings caused by the storm a few nights after the hurricane by getting up in the middle of the night and crying softly.
Lesson 2
Paraphrase
1. Serious-looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them…(Para.2)
2. At last this intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.(Para.5)
3. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.(Para.7)
4. …experiencing a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.(Para.10)
5. The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was.(Para.10)
6. After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.(Para.12)
7. I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie.(Para.18)
8. …and nurses walked by carrying nickel-plated instruments, the very sight of which would send shivers down the spine of any healthy visitors.(Para.28)
9. Because, thanks to it, I have the opportunity to improve my character.(Para.38)
参考答案
1. Serious-looking men were so absorbed in their conversation that they seemed not to pay any attention to the crowds about them.
2. At last the taxi trip came to an end and I suddenly discovered that I was in front of the gigantic City Hall.
3. The rather striking picture of traditional floating houses among high, modern buildings represents the constant struggle between traditional Japanese culture and the new, Western style.
4. I suffered from a strong feeling of shame when I thought of the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.
5. The few Americans and Germans also seemed to feel restrained like me.
6. After three days in Japan one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual in greeting and to show gratitude.
7. I was on the point of showing my agreement by nodding when I suddenly realized what he meant. His words shocked me out of my sad dreamy thinking.
8. …and nurses walked by carrying surgical instruments which were nickel plated and even healthy visitors when they see those instruments could not help shivering.
9. I have the chance to raise my moral standard because of the illness.
Lesson 3
Paraphrase
1. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone. (Para.18)
2. When they find who done that last night, who killed that kid an’its mother, then high-tailed it, they’ll throw the books, and never mind who it hits, or whether they got fancy titles neither. (Para. 19)
3. The Duchess of Croydon—three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her—did not yield easily.(Para. 19)
4. Even the self-assurance of Ogilvie flickered for an instant.(Para.20)
5. The house detective took his time, leisurely puffing a cloud of blue cigar smoke, his eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.(Para.23)
6. There ain’t much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’t get to hear about.(Para.28)
7. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.(Para.75)
8. And when they stopped for petrol, as they would have to, their speech and manner would betray them, making them conspicuous.(Para.85)
9. There must be no mistake, no vacillation or dallying because of her own smallness of mind.(Para.100)
参考答案
1. Ogilvie said these words with great contempt and sudden rudeness as if he was spitting. He threw away his pretended politeness.
2. When they find who killed the mother and the kid and then ran away, they will deal out the maximum punishment, and they will not care who will be punished in this case or what their social position is.
3. The Duchess was supported by her arrogance coming from her noble family who had belonged to the nobility for more than three hundred years. So she did not give in easily.
4. The Duchess was a good actress and she appeared so firm about their innocence that, for a brief moment, Ogilvie felt unsure if his assumption about them was right. But the moment was very short and passed quickly.
5. The house detective was in no hurry. He enjoyed his cigar and puffed a cloud of blue cigar smoke in a relaxed manner. At the same time, his eyes were fixed disdainfully on the Duchess as if he was openly daring her to object his smoking a cigar, as she had done earlier.
6. If anybody who stays in this hotel does anything wrong, improper or unusual, I always get to know about it. There isn’t much that can escape me.
7. The Duchess kept firm and tight control of her mind which is working quickly. The Duchess is thinking quickly, but at the same time keeping her thoughts under control.
8. Furthermore, when they stopped for petrol, as it would be necessary, their speech and manner would reveal their identity. British English would be particularly noticeable in the South.
9. She mustn’t make any mistakes in her plan, or waver in mind and show indecision or deal with the situation carelessly due to small-mindedness. In other words she had to take a big chance, to do something very daring, so she must be bold, resolute, decisive and rise to the occasion.
Lesson 4
Paraphrase
1. “Don’t worry, son, we’ll show them a few tricks.”(Para.2)
2. The case had erupted round my head…(Para.3)
3. No one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.(Para.9)
4. “That’s one hell of a jury!”(Para.12)
5. “Today it is the teachers,” he continued, “and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers.”(Para.14)
6. “There is some doubt about that,” Darrow snorted.(Para.19)
7. … accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion.(Para.23)
8. Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related.(Para.26)
9. Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a witness for the defense.(Para.30)
10. My heart went out to the old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrow’s hand.(Para.43)
参考答案
1. “Don’t worry, young man, we’ll do a few things to outwit the prosecution.”
2. I was suddenly engulfed by the whole affair.
3. I was the last one to expect that my case would develop into one of the most famous trials in American history.
4. “This is a completely inappropriate jury, too ignorant partial.”
5. Today the teachers are put on trial because they teach scientific theory; soon the newspapers and magazines will not be allowed to express new ideas, to spread knowledge of science.
6. “It’s doubtful whether man has reasoning power,” said Darrow sarcastically, scornfully.
7. … accused Bryan of demanding that a life or death struggle be fought between science and religion.
8. People paid in order to have a look at the ape and to consider carefully whether apes and humans could have a common ancestry.
9. Darrow surprised everyone by asking for Bryan as a witness for Scopes which was a brilliant idea.
10. Darrow had gotten the best of Bryan, who looked helplessly lost and pitiable as everyone ignored him and rushed past him to congratulate Darrow. When I saw this, I felt sorry for Bryan.
Lesson 6
Paraphrase
1. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.(Para.1)
2. The cast of characters set before his in his new profession was rich and varied—a cosmos.(Para.4)
3. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic.(Para.4)
4. Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.(Para.5)
5. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe region.(Para.7)
6. …Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.(Para.8)
7. “It was a splendid population—for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home…”(Para.9)
8. “Well, that is California all over.”(Para.9)
9. “What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges.”(Para.19)
10. The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.(Para.22)
参考答案
1. Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end. The youth and summer are eternal because this is the only age and time we knew them. They are frozen in that age/season for all readers.
2. His work on the boat made it possible for him to meet a large variety of people. It is a world of all types of characters.
3. All would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.
4. Steamboat decks were filled with people who explored and prepared the way for others and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs.
5. He took a horse-drawn public vehicle and went west to Nevada, following the flow of people in the gold rush.
6. Mark Twain began to work hard as a newspaper reporter and humorist to become well known locally.
7. Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless people, because those who stayed at home were the slow, dull and lazy people.
8. That’s typical of California.
9. If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for successoccasionally and kept the daring and enterprising spirit, we would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers.
10. At the end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world.
Lesson 7
Paraphrase
1. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.(Para.2)
2. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.(Para.5)
3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.(Para.5)
4. It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.(Para.6)
5. She would always look anyone in the eye.(Para.6)
6. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know.(Para.11)
7. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.(Para.13)
8. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie’s hand.(Para.23)
9. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.(Para.32)
10. He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car.(Para.36)
11. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head.(Para.36)
12. “I can remember Grandmother Dee without the quilts.”(Para.73)
参考答案
1. She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life, and that she can always has anything she wants.
2. Because I’m fat, I feel hot even in freezing weather.
3. Johnny Carson has a witty and glib tongue. But I outdo him and so he has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.
4. I’m ready to leave as quickly as possible because of discomfort, nervousness, timidity, etc. and turn my head away from them in order to avoid them as much as possible for the same reason.
5. She would always look at somebody directly and steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed.
6. She imposed on us lots of falsity and so-called knowledge that was totally useless and irrelevant to us.
7. She was homely and poor. Besides, she was not smart.
8. Meanwhile, Dee’s boyfriend is trying to shake hands with Maggie in a fancy and elaborate way.
9. In fact, I could have traced it back before the civil war through the family branches.
10. He just stood there with a grin on his face and lookedat me as if inspecting something old and out -of -date.
11. Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way.
12. I don’t need the quilts to remind me of Grandma Dee. She lives in my memory.
Lesson 8
Paraphrase
1. “What is one winter more?”(Para.8)
2. SherTakhi, who called Korphe’s widely dispersed faithful to prayer five times a day without the benefit of amplification, filled the small room with his booming voice.(Para.23)
3. As the moon rose over Korphe K2, they danced around the fire and taught Mortenson verses from the great Himalayan Epic of Gesar, beloved across much of the roof of the world, and introduced him to their inexhaustible supply of Balti folk song. (Para.35)
4. The fact that it wasn’t written down didn’t make it any less real.(Para.37)
5. He’d had too much trouble getting one school off the ground to think on Hoerni’s scale.(Para.38)
6. The old man led the former climber uphill for an hour, on legs still strong enough to humble the much younger man.(Para.45)
7. The air had fresh-scrubbed clarity that only comes with altitude.(Para.46)
8. “You have to understand, in these villages, a ram is like a firstborn child, prize cow, and family pet all rolled into one,”Mortensonexplaines.(Para.69)
参考答案
1. What does it matter if we have to go without a school for another winter?
2. SherTakhi had a booming voice, and without the advantage of amplification it filled the small room. He called Korphe’s believers, who were widely scattered working on their respective jobs, to pay five times a day.
3. At this time, the moon went up high in the sky above Korphe K2. The villagers danced around the fire and taught Mortenson lines from the Himalayan Epic of Gesar, beloved across most parts of the Himalayas which is the highest part of the world, and introduced him to a tradition of Balti folk songs so rich that it could never be finished or used up.
4. The Balti didn’t have a written history, but that fact didn’t mean that its rich history didn’t exist.
5. He had so much trouble getting the plan of building one school started successfully. And he had to concentrate on completing this one and had no time or energy to think on the large scale of building more schools envisioned by Hoerni.
6. Although Haji Ali was old, his legs were still strong enough to leave the younger man far behind and thus feel ashamed.
7. The air was so clear as if it had been just scrubbed. You can have such clear air only when you get to a certain high altitude.
8. In these villages, a ram was very much valued, meaning something extremely precious like a firstborn child, a prize cow and a family pet combined.
Lesson 9
Paraphrase
1. The document they produced was eventually signed, but ultimately unfinished.(Para.3)
2. But it also comes from my own story.(Para.7)
3. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts—that out of many, we are truly one.(Para.9)
4. Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions against the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity.(Para. 10)
5. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country.(Para.10)
6. We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary.(Para.11)
7. On one end of the spectrum, we’ve heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.(Para.13)
8. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.(Para.22)
参考答案
1. After heated debate and compromises, the Construction was finally adopted by the Constitutional Convention and 39 out of 55 delegates signed the document. But the “ three-fifths’’ clause and the twenty years allowed for the slave trade showed the slave issue was not solved, so the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement of the Constitution.
2. My personal background and my success story, rising from rags to riches, also teach me the importance of unity.
3. I am deeply ingrained, through my experience in the United States, with the ideathat America is not a total of adding everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.
4. In spite of all announcements that America was not ready for a black president, that I would fail in the campaign, we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign, which showed that the American people demanded unity and change.
5. People were encouraged to judge me from the perspective of a black candidate, raising the question of whether the United States would fare better with a black president. However, we won great victories even in some of the more conservative states, states with stronger racial bias.
6. The week before the Democrats were to select their delegates to the national convention in South Carolina, attacks on me, on blacks became more frequent, more intense.
7. At one end of the entire range of option, there are people who say that I decided to run because I wanted to show black and white should have equal opportunity and I wanted to play on the desires of naïve liberals to achieve racial harmony without making great effort.
8. It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is impossible for me to repudiate the black community.
Lesson 10
Paraphrase
1. Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point.(Para.27)
2. “The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.”(Para.27)
3. But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn’t make it—those who were ultimately defeated, in the barbershop or the beauty shop or around the kitchen table.(Para.32)
4. But it does find voice in the barbershop or the beauty shop or around the kitchen table.(Para.32)
5. And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning in the pulpit and in the pews.(Para.33)
6. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; and in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense.(Para.34)
7. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.(Para.35)
8. It’s a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years.(Para.37)
9. For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.( Para.39)
10. In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past, and these feelings are real and must be addressed.(Para.42)
11. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.(Para.44)
12. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, “Not this time.”(Para.47)
参考答案
1. In order to understand the complexities of race we need to know the history and development of racial relations, the sufferings and injustices the blacks were subjected to.
2. The influence of what happened in pervious times has not disappeared. Such influence can still be seen.
3. Out of those who worked or struggled very hard to climb the social ladder, many did not succeed. They were defeated in life’s struggle, as a result of racial discrimination.
4. Views colored by race may come up at informal conversation at the barbershop (or barbershops) where men meet, or over dinner among family members.
5. And once in a while such sentiments are expressed in sermons and among church congregations.
6. As a result, white Americans are very much worried about their future, feeling that their American dream is coming to an end, feeling hopeless and helpless. So they have a hostile attitude toward those whom they consider their competitors.
7. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators became famous through exposing so-called unreal incidents of racism and labeled reasonable discussion of unfair treatment of minorities as catering to excessive sensibility to minority cause or as racism against the whites.
8. The anger of the blacks and the resentment of the whites are not groundless. Both groups have legitimate concerns. Yet their anger is directed toward the wrong target, thus hampering the solution of the issues which cause the anger. Neither side has come to see the problem. So a racial deadlock exists.
9. The black community should face and handle bravely the legacy of racial injustice of the past while at the same time should not feel they are being wronged all the time.
10. For the whites, they should see clearly that the wrong done to the blacks in the past is a fact and subtle discrimination still exists today and should be solved properly.
11. We can jump on some remarks made by some Hillary supporters against me and use this to show that Hillary also appeals to whites to defeat me in the Democratic campaign or predict that white people would support John McCain, not because of his policy but because of his skin color.
12. Or, now and here, the American people, black and white, Asian and Hispanic and Native American, can unite and reject the politics that produce division and conflict.
Lesson 11
Paraphrase
1. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.(Para.1)
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.(Para.3)
3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten year…(Para.3)
4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.(Para.4)
5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.(Para.4)
6. Clusters of tree and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.(Para.7)
7. I was never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all mere custom and company.( Para.11)
8. 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.( Para.11)
9. The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the remark and compensation of their servitude.(Para.13)
参考答案
1. The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.
2. The Kiowa often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habits, 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. 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. 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. 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. The earth unfolds and limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes it possible to see far into the distance and in all directions.
7. I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, and which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.
8. In this way she was completely moved to another state in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless (what she represented would last forever).
9. 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 was also a reward for their servitude.
Lesson 13
Paraphrase
1. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else except an occasional relaxation with poetry or music, have lost interest for me even to the extent of a bored distaste.( Para.2)
2. Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out.(Para.2)
3. Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.(Para.3)
4. A hard materialism was my creed, accepted as a law of progress; any ascription of disinterested motives aroused not only my suspicion but my scorn.(Para.3)
5. And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water colours of sunset.(Para.4)
6. I want my fill of beauty before I go.(Para.4)
7. …no longer what people believe me to be; a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an ocean-going liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters, and Endymion young and strong, with a god for his father and a vision of the world inspired from Olympus.(Para.5)
8. All weight is lifted from my body; I’m one with the night…(Para.5)
9. Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.(Para.5)
10. So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.(Para.8)
11. We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves.( Para.17)
12. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.(Para.19)
13. … the Pacific alone dwarfs all the continents put together.(Para.34)
14. I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.(Para.34)
参考答案
1. I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world that I devoted all my attention, time and energy to them and only occasionally did I allow myself a little rest by reading poetry or listening to music.
2. Or maybe my suppressed inclination has been brought out under Laura’s unintentional influence.
3. I was as puritanical as a Pharisee and I viewed with contempt all those who lived a less practical life than my own and regarded them as creatures on the moon.
4. I firmly believed in uncompromising materialism which in my opinion represented the law of human progress. When people claimed that they protested against damaging natural beauty out of unselfish motives, I suspected them and viewed them with contempt. I not only disbelieved people when they said they did things out of unselfish motives, I also held them in contempt.
5. Just imagine how I have changed now. Here I stand, sentimental and sensitive, like an old unmarried woman painting a water-color picture of the sunset.
6. I want to enjoy beauty to my heart’s content before I die.
7. At this moment I am not the middle-aged journalists that people believe me to be, spending a holiday on an ocean-going liner. I have now become a liberated person, bathed in magic waters, and I feel I am like Endymion, a young and strong youth who has a god for his father and gifted with the power to see the world inspired by the gods at Olympus.
8. I feel that I am weightless and totally absorbed by the night and feel at peace with the night.
9. I imagine devoted religious people must feel as clean and pure as I do now when they leave the solemn confessional after gaining pardon for their sins.
10. In the same way I let myself freely imagine what the innermost part of Laura’s character presents. She looks so severe outwardly, but inwardly she is full of tenderness---tenderness like delicate flowers waiting for the daring to discover them.
11. We human beings ought to learn from the wise bird, knowing how far we can allow ourselves to go; knowing how much freedom of conduct we can allow ourselves to have.
12. Here I’m born anew, completely different from the past, changed excessively or to an unusual extent.
13. The Pacific Ocean alone is much larger than all the continents combined.
14. A storm that lasted two days has made me extremely excited and happy, but above all, I love these idle days in which I throw off all the qualities, perspectives, values and everything else that made me as what I was; I’m born anew.
第二组：从新版本筛选的题目 - 答案仅供参考
原题句子
L1:
1. Little donkeys thread their way among the throngs of people.
2. Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to the muted cloth-market.
3. They narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down.
4. He will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining.
5. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear.
L2:
1. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.
2. The cab driver’s door popped open at the very sight of a traveler.
3. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimino and the miniskirt.
4. I experienced a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.
5. The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was/
6. After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.
7. I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of sad reverie.
8. I thought somehow I had been spared.
L3:
1. The prospect of a good catch looked bleak.
2. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago.
3. Keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together.
4. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef
5. Which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.
6. Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise.
7. We are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness.
8. Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can’t see these clouds for what they are
9. To come to the question another way
10. And have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societies
11. We seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth’s natural systems
12. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially.
L4:
1. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand
2. “no” is a word cthe world never learned to say to her
3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
4. It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight.
5. She washed us in a river of make-believe
6. Burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know
7. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.
8. A dress to the ground, in this hot weather.
9. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it
10. Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie.
11. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.
12. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head
13. Less than that
14. This was the way she knew God to work.
L5:
1. Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the USA.
2. Winant said the same would be true of USA.
3. My life is much simplified thereby.
4. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it.
5. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.
6. We shall be strengthened not weakened in determination and in resources.
7. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain.
L6:
1. The house detective;s piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled-face.
2. Pretty neat set-up you folks got.
3. The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.
4. He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice.
5. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.
6. The Duchess of Croydon - three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her - did not yield easily.
7. “It is no go, old girl. I’m afraid. It was a good try.”
8. “That’s more like it,” Ogilvie said. He lit the fresh cigar, “Now we’re getting somewhere.”
9. His eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.
10. The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly.
L9:
1. A man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race
2. Mark Twain digested the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.
3. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied - a cosmos.
4. Broke and discouraged, he accepted a job as reporter with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
5. Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.
6. “and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says ‘well, that is California all over.’”
7. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.
L10:
1. We’ll show them a few tricks.
2. The case had erupted round my head.
3. The fundamentalists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Old Testament.
4. That all animal life ... had evolved from a common ancestor.
5. “Let’s take this thing to court and test the legality of it.”
6. People from the surrounding hills, mostly fundamentalists, arrived to cheer Bryan against the “infidel outsiders.”
7. As my father growled, “That’s one hell of a jury!”
8. He is here because ignorance and bigotry are rampant.
9. Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related.
10. And the crowd punctuated his defiant replies with fervent “Amens”.
参考答案
Lesson 1 The Middle Eastern Bazaar
1)little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another
2)Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market.
3)they drop some of items that they don't really want and begin to bargain seriously for a low price.
4)He will ask for a high price for the item and refuse to cut down the price by any significant amount.
5)As you get near it, a variety of sounds begin to strike your ear.
Lesson 2 Hiroshima---the “Liveliest City in Japan”
1)They were so absorbed in their conversation that they seemed not to pay any attention to the people around them.
2)As soon as the taxi driver saw a traveler, he immediately opened the door.
3)The traditional floating houses among high modern buildings represent the constant struggle between old tradition and new development.
4)1 suffered from a strong feeling of shame when I thought of the scene of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima wearing my socks only.
5)The few Americans and Germans seemed just as restrained as 1 was．
6)After three days in Japan one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual to show gratitude．
7)1 was on the point of showing my agreement by nodding when I suddenly realized what he meant．His words shocked me out my sad dreamy thinking．
8)I thought for some reason or other no harm had been done to me．
Lesson 3 Ships in the Desert
1)It was not at all possible to catch a large amount of fish.
2)Following the layers of ice in the core sample, his finger came to the place where the layer of ice was formed 2050 years ago.
3)keeps its engines running for fear that if he stops them, the metal parts would be frozen solid and the engines would not be able to start again
4)Bit by bit trees in the rain forest are felled and the land is cleared and turned into pasture where cattle can be raised quickly and slaughtered and the beef can be used in ham- burgers.
5)Since miles of forest are being destroyed and the habitat for these rare birds no longer exists, thousands of birds which we have not even had a chance to see will become extinct.
6)Thinking about how a series of events might happen as a consequence of the thinning of the polar cap is not just a kind of practice in conjecture (speculation), it has got practical Value.
7) We are using and destroying resources in such a huge amount that we are disturbing the balance between daylight and darkness.
8) Or have we been so accustomed to the bright electric lights that we fail to understand the threatening implication of these clouds.
9)To put forword the question in a different way
10)and greatly affect the living places and activities of human societies
ll)We seem unaware that the earth's natural systems are delicate.
12)And this continuing revolution has also suddenly developed at a speed that doubled and tripled the original speed.
Lesson 5 Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
1)Hitler was hoping that if he attacked Russia, he would win in Britain and the U.S. the support of those who were enemies of Communism.
2)Winant said the United States would adopt the same attitude.
3)In this way, my life is made much easier in this case, it will be much easier for me to decide on my attitude towards events.
4)I will not take back a single word of what I have said about Communism.
5) I can see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, who, after suffering severe losses in the aerial battle of England, now feel happy because they think they can easily beat the Russian air force without heavy loss.
6) We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of our resources.
7)Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the fight against Nazi Germany when we have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful.
Lesson 6 Blackmail
1)The house detective's small narrow eyes looked her up and down scornfully from his fat face with a heavy jowl.
2)This is a pretty nice room that you have got.
3)The fat body shook in a chuckle because the man was enjoying the fact that he could afford to do whatever he liked and also he was appreciating the fact that the Duchess knew why he had come.
4)He had an unnaturally high-pitched voice. now, he lowered the pitch. When he spoke
5)Ogilvie spat out the words, throwing away his politeness. pretended
6)The Duchess was supported by her arrogance coming from parents of noble families with a history of three centuries and a half. She wouldn't give up easily.
7)It's no use. What you did just now was a good attempt at trying to save the situation.
8) "That's more acceptable," Ogilvie said. He lit another cigar, "Now we're making some progress. "
9)...he looked at the Duchess sardonically as if he wanted to see if she dared to object to his smoking.
10)The house detective made noises with his tongue to show his disapproval.
Lesson 9 Mirror of America
1)a man who became constantly preoccupied by the moral weaknesses of mankind
2)Mark Twain first observed and absorbed the new American experience, and then introduce it to the world in his books or lectures.
3)In his new profession he could meet people of all kinds.
4)With no money and a frashated feeling, he accepted a job as reporter with Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, ...
5)Mark Twain began working hard to became well known locally as a newspaper reporter and humorist.
6)and when California makes a plan for a new surprise, the solemn people in other states of the U.S. smile as usual, making a comment "that's typical of California"
7)The man who had made the world laugh was himself consumed by bitterness.
Lesson 10 The Trial That Rocked the World
1)We have some clever and unexpected tactics and we will surprise them in the trial.
2)The case had come down upon me unexpectedly and violently.
3)The fundamentalists believe in a word-for-word acceptance of what is said in the Bible.
4)that all life had developed gradually from a common original organism
5)Let's accuse Scopes of teaching evolution and let the court decide whether he is breaking the law or not.
6) People from the nearby mountains, mostly fundamentalists, came to support Bryan against those professors, scientists, and lawyers who came from the northern big cities and were not fundamentalists.
7)As my father complained angrily, "That' s no jury at all. "
8)He is here because unenlightenment and prejudice are widespread and unchecked.
9)People had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and to consider carefully whether apes and humans could have a common ancestry.
10)and the crowd, who were mainly fundamentalists, took his words showing no fear as if they were prayers, interrupting frequently with "Amen".