现代大学英语精读1答案英语答案1

Unit Two The Boy and Bank OfficerVocabularyI.1.1. n11. n2. n12. n3. v past participle 13. adv4. v past participle 14. adv5. v past participle 15. adj6. n16.adj7. n 17. n8. n18. n9. adj 19. n10. adj 20. n2．1. 头痛8. 雪靴2. 钞票9. 手册3. 祖国10. 店员4. 伤心11. 夜总会5. 握手12. 交叉火力6. 山体滑坡13. 月光3.1. 繁星密布的填空10. 有钱人2. 狂风暴雨肆虐的大海11. 雨季3. 棉花般的雪12. 银发4. 多山地区13. 红润的面颊5. 落基山脉14. 多刺的鱼6. 肉嘟嘟的鼻子15. 瘦骨嶙峋的女孩儿7. 多毛的胸部16.气味难闻的奶酪8. 浓密的眉毛17.咸味食品9. 卷曲的毛发18. 华而不实的语言4.1. 一个男子突然站了起来，用他的鞋子朝他扔过去。

幸亏他及时低头躲了过去。

2. 我们再他回家前把房间通通风吧。

3. 她虽然八十大好几了，但还能穿针引线。

4. 我们必须勇敢面对这个危险。

总有人要在我们这里浑水摸鱼。

5. 她清楚地知道，如果她把那钱放进口袋，她就会倒大霉。

6. 会议是由一个刚刚平步青云，掌握大权的妇女主持的。

7. 正如老话所说，剥猫皮可以有很多办法。

（不必墨守成规）8. 一对年轻的恋人坠入爱河，仅因为此，他们被人们用石头活活砸死。

9. 我希望贫富差距能够缩小。

前两天我见到一个饿急了的年轻人在一家饭店里狼吞虎咽地吃残羹剩饭。

10.桌子上的食品看起来是如此的诱人，我都流口水了。

2 Complete the following verb+ noun collocation or expressions.1. have/keep/open/close2. have/keep/ show/ lose3. attend/hold/chair/have/open/close4. change/read/speak5. give/hold6. make/send/save/pay/earn/deposit/withdraw/change/borrow/lend7. wear/show/give/use8. obey/follow/make/change/break9. have/spend/keep/waste/kill/save/count/lose10. protect/represent/consider3. Complete the sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets according to the sentence patterns in bold.1. is that we can’t find enough foreign markets2. is that without democracy there is no harmonious society3. is that we should give/allow students more freedom4. is not strong enough to be her husband5. reliable enough to be her husband6. is not big enough to hold so many people7. There doesn’t seem to be any different opinion8. Because at that time there seemed to be enough food for everybody9. Because there didn’t seem to be any good reason at that time.10. because he was being followed at that time11. my car is being repaired/fixed12. I hear it is being criticized by many people13. a good doctor, but he doesn’t know much about history14. an excellent English professor, but she doesn’t know much about history15. we may be poor, but we are no beggars16. I shouldn’t have told her in such a hurry.17. I shouldn’t have gone18. we should have listened to them.4. Fill in blanks with correct forms of the words and phrases listed below1.move in on, happened to 5. Because of, hand over2.aware of 6. the other day, on duty3.heard of 7. on the case, as to4.think twice 8. in the first place5. Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions or adverbs.1. on 5. down upon2. into 6. up3. up 7. up to4. forward to6. Translate the following sentences into English1.It seemed impossible to me, but all the others looked very confident2.We looked around. There wasn’t building standing in sight. The earthquakeseemed to have destroyed everything.3.–He seemed to be in low spirits these days. I wonder why.--I think it’s because he doesn’t seem to be making much progress in his studies.He is afraid of being looked down upon by his classmates.4.– What are you looking for, Dick?--I seem to have lost my key. How annoying!5. If you find a word that does not seem to make any sense in the sentence, youshould look it up in the dictionary. That’s the only way to learn to use a word.6. They went on arguing for hours. Neither was willing to listen to the other. Isuddenly remembered someone saying “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge while argument is an exchange of ignorance”7. The situation there seems to be very complicated. The government has promised tolook into it.8. My grandpa seems to be getting better and better, but he still needs somebody tolook after him.9. Economists have already come to the conclusion that the crisis seems to be comingto an end. World economy is looking up.10. When I got well I looked at my bank account. To my sadness, I found my balancewas almost zero. All my savings in the past three years were gone.7. Fill in each blank with correct form of the appropriate word in the brackets.Note that more than one word may be appropriate1. say, ago2. before, remember/recall3. spoke, say4. speak/tell, after, speak5. After, since6. bring/take, since/because (Use “bring” if she was coming to you, and “take” if shewas leaving you)7. question, since/when8. Remember, bring9. matter, problemGrammar1.Study the given patterns and rewrite the following sentences after theexample.1.You ought to invite him to sing at the New Year Party2.You ought to do something a bit more challenging3.We ought to start preparing for celebration4.You ought to relax and stop worrying about him.5.If I knew their phone number, I would surely call them.6.If I was in charge here, I would help you.7.If I was offered the job, I would take it for sure.8.If I had a warm coast with me, I wouldn’t feel so cold.9.If his parents could afford it, they would support him at college.10.Ted might be able to solve these problems if he were here with us.2.Rewrite the following sentences by using subjunctive mood after the example.1.Jack shouldn’t have done that /thrown the exam paper to the floor.2.People shouldn’t have wasted waster like that.3.Joe shouldn’t have lied to his parents. / He shouldn’t have spent his parents’hard-earned money like that.4.I should not have given up so easily.5.I should not have jumped the queue. / He shouldn’t have behaved like that.6.Li Tong’s parents shouldn’t have read her private letter without her permission.7.I don’t think the students should have overacted. (They should have called thesecurity on campus)3.Fill in each blank of the passage with ONE suitable word.(1) types/kinds (2) lending (3) for (4) is(5) pay (6) opening (7) balance (8) store/keep/save/put4.Translate the following sentences using one of the patterns listed in Grammarexercises 1-2.1.You ought to try a different method.2.I think you ought to talk with our writing teacher about it.3.we ought to report the theft to the police immediately4.You ought to go and see your parents more often now that they are not in goodhealth.5.You shouldn’t have shouted at the elders like that6.You shouldn’t have been late for such an important meeting7.Isn’t Jim your friend? You shouldn’t have turned down/rejected his offer of help.8.As a college students, you shouldn’t have spent all your free time playingcomputer games.9.If I failed this time, I would try for the second time.10.If global warming continued, these islands would disappear.11.If I had a million yuan, I would buy my parents an apartment12.If I were elected president of the students’union, I might organize a pianocompetition.5.Identify and correct the mistake (s) in each of the sentences.1.No one knew what had happened/ was happening there. No one knows what ishappening/has happened there.2.My parents had a good reason to be angry with me. I shouldn’t have lied to themin the first place.3.The new Prime Minister is well aware that his government is faced with a lot ofproblems./ The new Prime Minister is well aware of the problems his government is faced with.4.If you won the prize, what would you do with the money.5.The guest was greeted with a bunch of flowers at the airport.6.The teller was arguing with a young customer about something when the narratorentered the bank.7.The narrator thought the bank’s policy was ridiculous。

V. Key to the ExercisesPreview1.Listen to the recording of the text and choose the statement that best reflects your understanding.1. C2. A3. C4. D5. CVocabulary1.Become familiar with the rules of word formation.1.Give the parts of speech of the following words and study how they are formed.1.“un-”here is an adjective prefix which means “not”2. “-able”is an adjective suffix which means something that can be done or a q uality something or someone has (可以的或必须的，有某种特征或倾向的)3. “fore-”is a prefix which means “before”or “in front of”(指时间、职位、位置在前面)4. Suffix “-en”turns some adjectives and nouns into verbs.5. Prefix “re-”means “again”.6. The compound nouns are formed by objects + v + -er/or.7. The compound adjectives are formed by adj + n +ed.2.Decide which of the following words can be used both as verbs and nouns.All these words can be used as nouns and verbs with only the followingexceptions which are usually used as verbs:Tend tendance tendencyreplace (corresponding noun: replacement)die (When used as a noun, it is a different word)condemn (corresponding noun: condemnation)occur (corresponding noun: occurrence)complain (corresponding noun: complaintprotect (corresponding noun: protection)3.Translate the following expressions, paying attention to the different use of the prefixes and suffixes.1. 心中不高兴的纳税人2. 一个不平等条约3. 不为人知的捣乱分子4. 不幸的结果5. 未曾预料到（出其不意）的访问6. 可以预见的将来7. 一个令人难忘的人物8. 变化莫测的天气9. 非饮用水10. 在可以付得起的价位11. 难以描述的痛苦折磨12. 由于可以理解的原因13. 拓宽街道14. 加深湖泊15. 缩短文章16. 重组政府17. 重游故乡18. 更换旧机plete the sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets.1. represent, represented2. employer, unemployed, employees, reemployed3.well-informed, information4. informer, inform, authorities5. complaints, complain, unemployment6. insult7. insulting, insult8. representative9. be insultedplete the following verb + noun collocations or expression1.mind2.plant/grow/harvest/reap3.dig/sink4.fish/birds/crabs/mice/a thief/a cold/the meaning/the disease5.till/improve/conserve6.plough7.the enemy/the killings8.attention/interest/criticism9.flowers/nuts/information/lete the sentences by translating the Chinesein the brackets according to the patterns given in bold1.it was fate that2.it was/is his son who3.it was in the United States that I4.begging for food with a golden bowl5.trying to fly by lifting his hair6.leading the blind7.She used to be rather weak in English8.Ours used to be called a country of bicycles9.There used to be lots of fish, shrimps and crabs4.Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions and adverbs.1.in, of, with, at, with, about/of, to, of , on, to2.of, for, form, till, on, after, against/from, in3.to, in, of, of, for, to, for, in, to4.down, over, with5.by, over6.along with, across7.around/round, away, with8.to, up, off, off, on5.Translate the following sentences , using the link verb + predicativepattern (P61)1）祝英台虽然不愿意嫁给马家小少爷，但她不能不服从他父亲。

Unit11. By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2. The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3. The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem.4. It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or to human society.5. People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism.6. The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned; it had only been put off.7. Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.8. It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.9. Belief can be useful in the search for truth, but more often than not it is accepted because it is convenient and self-serving.10. George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suffer from great misery will they be stimulated to make great efforts to change the situation, in other words, suffering is necessary to force the poor to work hard.1. 贫富不均乃共和政体最致命的宿疾;2. 他们的贫穷只是一种暂时性的不幸,如果他们贫穷但却温顺,他们最终将成为世界的主人;3. 热恋的夫妇应该在梅西百货商店过夜,而不是他们的新房;4. 美国这朵玫瑰花以其华贵与芳香让观众倾倒,赞不绝口,而她之所以能被培植就是因为在早期其周围的花蕾被插掉了,在经济生活中情况亦是如此;这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用;5.它已成为经济上收入不菲的行业;6. 没有哪种压迫比身无分文更厉害,也没有哪种对思想和行为的束缚比一无所有来得更全面彻底;7. 我们珍惜自由式对的;正因为珍惜自由,我们就不能以此为借口,不给最需要自由的人自由;8. 不管他们生活在埃塞俄比亚,还是在纽约的南部布朗克斯区,甚至是洛杉矶这样的天堂,人们都决心不去为这些人操心;9. 如上述所说,他在华盛顿高层当中有无比的威望;10. 同情心,加上与之相关的社会努力是人们这个年代,最令人不快的行为和行动方针; Unit31. What people do may unintentionally cause droughts, floods, and neat waves.2. The Earth we see in photos, posters, and ads, which appears so beautiful, is not the true reflection of the world we live in, such image lulls us into complacency.3. Human activities have taken place over such large areas and with such intensitythat they have already caused disastrous effects on ecology.4. The fish could play its role because it became a necessary link with the processes preceding it and the processes following it in the ecological system.5. When cars are produced to serve such narrow purposes, it is not surprising that some of their characteristic qualities are harmful to the environment.6. The farmer applied more and more fertilizer, and the production did rise but did not increase at the same rate of the fertilizer.7. People eat plants and animals, and their waste is flushed into the sewer system. After being processed, the waste is still waste. the residue will go into rivers, oceans, and will have harmful effect on the aquatic ecosystem.8. If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the same with very little change.9. The characteristics of the objects and materials in the technosphere are rapid change and great variety.10. If we take side in the war of the two words, we are doing so at the risk of failing to have a clear understanding of the nature and cause of the war, thus, we lose the chance to really solve the grave environmental crisis.1. 我们一直在滥用这股强大的力量,就像传说中的魔术师的师弟一样,并没有意识到我们的这种行为很可能会导致灾难性的后果;2. 即使全球变暖这种灾害永不发生,即使臭氧层空洞仍然只是一种深奥的极地现象,人类的活动已经极大地的改变了全球的条件,这些也许是用照相机拍不出来的;3. 与生态圈相反,技术圈是由线性流程所决定的;4. 现在技术圈运作的能源主要是矿物燃料,一旦用完,永不再生;5. 尼龙不能进行生物分解—也就是说,现存的有机物中还没有发现哪种酶可以分解尼龙;6.~~有生命的东西创造了一系列对生命至关重要的有限但独立的物质和反应;7. 免费的午餐实际上是一种负债,在技术圈中,债务是指已承认但尚未归还的欠款;8. 当债务以技术圈制造的环境污染的形式出现,然后又转嫁到生态圈,这种债务将无法消除,造成破坏是不可避免的;Unit 4 Nettles1. The impact of Mike's leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn't expect that Mike's leaving would have such a tremendous power that it would change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of Mike.2. At that time, we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life full of confusion and bewilderment caused by giving birth to and raising babies. and our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to feed the babies and things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T. S. Eliot's sophisticated work "The Cocktail Party".3. I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbor's visibly hostile and violent way of life, but by a kind of formless and hidden emptiness and meaninglessness of human existence. What happened around me was totally irrelevant to me, and I felt very isolated and alienated.4. She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval for my new lifestyle.5. It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.6. I knew that he was a person who had experienced the worst in life, the hardest experience a person might have to endure.7. They experienced the worst together and they knew what it was like and understood the meaning of that experience. Such an experience posed the gravest test to people. If they stood the test, their friendship or marriage would be strengthened, and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. But if they failed the test, their relationship would be broken and they would be driven apart.8. If they acted on love, they would take risks. They wouldn't do that or go further in their relationship, but they would rather let their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would flow on gently and permanently, and as an underground resource, which would never be fully tapped but would never go dry.1. 这里的每一棵树都表现出某种神态;比如,榆树看上去宁静安详,橡树则咄咄逼人,枫树亲切友好,而山楂树则老气横秋、脾气暴躁;2. 当他喊我的名字时,我会紧张万分,全身蹭地就像过了电似的,一种狂热的忠诚感油然而生;3. 一天早晨,工作全部完成,这是意料中的事;井上了盖子,水泵重新安装好了,大家对清新的井水赞叹不已;4. 我们大约每周都要在我家或她家厨房小聚一次;孩子们总是不断打扰我们,有时我们还会因为缺觉而感到头晕目眩,于是我们就用大量的浓咖啡和香烟给自己提神,开始天南地北地聊天,所谈的话题无所不包：我们的婚姻、奋斗、个人的不足、既有趣又有些丢脸的动机,以及我们曾有过的理想抱负;5. 塞妮给了他干净的床单,免得在他留给我的床上重新叠被、铺床;6. 我睡地很浅,没完没了地做着充满情欲的梦,中间还穿插着令人不快的小情节;7. 紧挨着草地边上的灌木丛看上去似乎无法穿过,但走近了可以看到一些小缺口和窄窄的小径,这是被动物或找高尔夫球的人们踩出来的;8. 看上去,天空的一大部分似乎脱离了主体,喧闹着、果断地压向地面,那形状虽然说不出具体像什么,但像是一种活物的样子;9. 我们拥抱并不是出于身体的渴望,而是庆祝劫后余生的一种表示;Unit 6 Death of a Pig1. The tragedy has an ending---the killing of a pig and the serving of its killing deliberately planned and carried out efficiently, is the most serious type of murder. However,whether pigs should end their lives that way has never been questioned.2. A pig could not ask for any better living conditions;at least no pig has evera word,my pig lived in a pleasant environment.3. A pig couldn’t ask for any better living conditions; at least no pig has ever complained.4. Fred was quite excited about the was down at the pigpen all the time because of his swollen joints,he moved about face set apart the grass along the fence as he moved about. He was like a doctor,with his long, drooping ears dangling like a stethoscope,and he scrabbled on the ground as if he were prescribing some medicine.5. When it was time to dose the pig, Fred became even more excited,and he managed to get through the fence,and acted as if he was taking charge of the medical treatment.7. If a pig dies before he is supposed to, it is a serious matter for the whole community to whole community would share the sadness for his death.8. The purpose of this essay is to show that I am sorry for what has happened to my pig,since I have failed to raise the pig and cannot provide a reason why my pig could’t grow the way other pigs have grown.9. The pig's grave in the woods doesn't have a tombstone,but whenever somebody wants to visit it,Fred will show him the know we will often visit it,separate or together,when we need to ponder over problems or when we are depressed. 1. 他站在那儿,轻轻地吮吸着剩下的油,有几滴从嘴唇边漏了出来;他看着我,害羞的短睫毛下那原本淘气的眼睛里充满了邪恶和憎恨;2. 我们正在经历一段非常反常的天气,闷热且雾气沉沉;浓雾每晚笼罩着村庄,中午的几个小时雾会渐渐散去,但傍晚时又悄悄地潜回,先是覆盖树梢,接着一下子飘过田地,挡住了外面的世界,把整个村庄的房屋、人和动物都裹在其中;3. 对于羞涩的、刚断奶的小猪,这一招常常很有效,能诱使他们吃东西；但对于一头生病的大猪,这个做法却丝毫没有意义,我发出的声音肯定只会让他觉得更难受;4. 看到一头健康的猪精力充沛,人们常常也感到自己也是精力充沛;看到它狼吞虎咽地吃掉槽里的食物,人们就像是预订了今后的大餐;而当这一切突然结束,槽中的食物丝毫没动,任其在阳光下发馊时,猪的不适也就让人觉得自己也不舒服,生活变得失去了安全感,失去了平衡,变得转瞬即逝;5. 现在这头猪的命运和我的命运紧紧地联系在一起,似乎冲洗直肠的橡皮管就是连接我们情感的纽带;从他生病到死去,我无时无刻不想着他;如何想尽办法让他脱离苦海成了我心里想的唯一的事情;6. 这种醒悟来得太过突然,使我深感不安,因为我知道世事难料,在猪身上发生的事情同样也有可能在我身边其他看似平静之处发生;我想忘记这个令人不快的想法,但它总是不停地出现;7. 我们大家凭着紧急情况下所产生的本能的合作精神,在黑暗中默契地配合;猪并没有反抗,屋子笼罩在黑暗中,给人一种安全感和亲切感;8. 关于这最后一幕的描写显得有些冗长——阴沉的天空、杂乱的树丛、即将来临的降雨,以及传说中与尸体作伴的蚯蚓和烤猪时常用作点缀的苹果;Unit 8 A Rose for Emily1. The street used to house only the best 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. It would not be true to say that miss Emily would have accepted charity.3. What the ladies said meant that they did not in the least believe a man, any man,could keep a kitchen properly.4. The Griersons regarded themselves as very important and the outside world as vulgar and full of people inferior to belonged to two entirely different ,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 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 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. Ordinary people often become excited or worried when they get a penny more or a penny poor,now she would learn to appreciate the value of money like other people in the town.8. 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 not describe her self-restraint by the expression noblesse oblige.10. And the very old men confused the dates and years of past happenings. To the old people, all the past should be like a road that becomes smaller as it reaches further back. But to those old Southerners, the recent past of ten years or so was like a bottleneck, a narrow passage, things were pleasantly and fondly mixed up together. Like the green grass on the meadow never touched by the winter, their memories of the remote past remained blurred, sweet, romanticized, and unchanged.1. 艾米丽·格里尔森小姐过世了,我们全镇人都去参加她的葬礼;男人们去是出于一种尊敬,因为一座纪念碑倒下了；女人们则大多是出于好奇,想看看她房子里面到底是什么样的;因为除了一位兼任花匠和厨师的老男仆之外,起码有十年没人踏进过她家的大门了;2. 现在艾米丽小姐也加入到那些名门望族代表的行列之中了;他们在令人沉思的雪松的陪伴下长眠于公墓,他们的墓碑周围埋葬着一排排南北战争中在杰斐逊战场上阵亡的南军和北军的无名战士;3. 艾米丽小姐在世时,一直是传统的化身,履行职责和给予关照的对象,这是全镇人沿袭下来的一种义务;4. 老男仆把他们引进光线黯淡的门厅,厅里的楼梯通向更加阴暗的楼上;5. 他们落座时,一股细细的灰尘在他们大腿周围慢慢扬起,尘粒在房间里唯一的太阳光束中缓缓地旋转着;6. 因为她的骨架小,换了别人只是有点富态,而到她身上就显得肥胖了;8. 甚至举行葬礼时这家都没派人出席;9. 艾米丽就那样瞪着她,她的头向后仰,以便能与他对视,一直看得他转移了目光,走进去取了砒霜并包好;Unit 9 The Bluest Eye3. If his needs were physical, she could meet them. She could make him comfortable and give him enough or even more than enough to satisfy his physical needs.4. Geraldine had seen black girls like Pecola at many places and many times in the past.5. On the one hand, they were ignorant and uncomprehending. They did not ask question why their lives were miserable. On the other hand, as they were poverty-stricken and practically had nothing, their eyes revealed their desire for anything that could make their lives easier.6. In the eyes of these girls one can see that they were in despair, without any hope for the future, and that their life was nothing but a waste.1.她们在窗上挂了一块硬纸板做的牌子,上面的三边分别写着10磅,25磅,50磅,第四边写着“不要冰块”;2.她们就读于政府拨地建造的大学以及师范学院;她们学习如何把服务白人的工作做得更细致：学家政是为了给他们烧饭做菜；学当老师是为了教育黑人孩子顺从；学音乐是为了让疲惫的主人身心放松,为他那业已麻木的灵魂提供消遣;3.她只需斜眼看他一下,他就知道该到房后的走廊上去抽烟;4.当她轻轻地抚摸他时,他会满意地舔着毛,伸着懒腰,张开嘴巴;5.小路易把运动场看成是他自己的,小学生们都羡慕他有这么多自由,可以睡懒觉,可以回家吃午饭,放学后还能控制运动场;6.他最喜欢玩“山大王”的游戏,喜欢被他们推下土山坡,让他们滚在他身上;7.她深深得沉浸在对花的欣赏之中,突然,小路易喊道,“给你”8.佩克拉拼命拍门,这让他笑得更厉害了;他尖声笑着,几乎喘不过气;9.不过,头垂得再低,她也看得到雪花纷纷飘落到人行道上并立即消融;。

现代大学英语精读1Unit 11. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the dayI was to be thrown into school for the first time. (1)Paraphrase:But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the day I was forced to go to school for the first time.2.“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?”(3)Paraphrase:Why do I have to go to school? I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong to be punished like this.3. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (5)Paraphrase:I didn’t think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls.4. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (15)Paraphrase:What we did at school wasn’t just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful.5. In addition, the time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16)Paraphrase:Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed home playing and foolingaround all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.Unit 21. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. (para. 1)Paraphrase:Banks act like churches which usually control people’s life and can interfere in people’s life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches.2. It was lunchtime and the only officer on duty was a fortyish black man with short, pressed hair, a pencil mustache, and a neatly pressed brown suit. (para. 3)Paraphrase:uncurled hair, a thin mustache looking like a line drawn by a pencil, and a neat and tidy brown suit3. Everything about him suggested a carefully dressed authority. (para. 3) Paraphrase:Everything about him—his clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man who had an important position and power.4. I moved in for the kill. (para. 19)Paraphrase:I began to prepare to kill, destroy or defeat my enemy.5. I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20)Paraphrase:I’m going to have a strong argument to silence the bank officer.6. Look, … we’re just wasting each other’s time. (para. 29)Paraphrase:Look, let’s stop talkin g about this because it is a waste of time./You are just talking nonsense. I don’t want to listen to youany more.7.… has been shaking this boy down… (para. 30)Paraphrase:… has been getting money from the boy by using threats…8. Anyway, the poli ce are on the case… (para. 30)Paraphrase:Anyway, the police are working on the case…9. Not that I ever heard of. (para. 32)Paraphrase:I have never heard of such rules.Unit 31. My husband moved into our house as is the way with us in Esarn. (para. 1) Paraphrase:When we got married, we followed the tradition in Esarn and my husband came to live with my family.2. He has ears which don’t hear, a mouth which doesn’t speak, and eyes that don’t see. ( para. 2)Paraphrase:He does not notice what is happening around us and to our children, nor does he express his thoughts and feelings. (The woman is complaining that her husband does not bother about their children’s troubles.)3. … and it is no l onger fertile, bleeding year after year and, like u s, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us who are getting old, weak and tired.4.… but in a bad year, it’s not only the ploughs that br eak but our hearts, too. (para. 3)Paraphrase:When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad that our hearts break too.5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now it’s all cash. (para. 4)Paraphrase:Just ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but now we have to buy everything from the market.6. Shops have sprung up, filled with colorful plastic things and goods we have no use for. (para. 4)Paraphrase:Shops have suddenly appeared in the village selling attractive plastic things and things we don’t need.7. As for me, I wouldn’t change, couldn’t change even if I wanted to. (para. 7)Paraphrase:I didn’t want to change myself and my life, and actually I did not have the ability to change even if I wanted to.8. Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. (para. 7)Paraphrase:Though I’m poor, old and weak, I can still work in the rice field all day.9. I am at peace with the land and the condition of my life. (para. 9) Paraphrase:I am content with my land and accept my situation in life without complaint.10. I have been forcing silence upon her all these years, yet she had not once complained of anything. (para. 9)Paraphrase:All these years, I hardly talk with her or listen to her, so shehas to keep silent about her thoughts and feelings, but she has never told anyone else about her unhappy feelings about my silence.11. Still the land could not tie them down or call them back. (para. 10) Paraphrase:My children grew up and had happy days on this land, but this could not prevent them from leaving for cities or attract them back from cities.12. Sickness comes and goes, and we get back on our feet again. (para. 11) Paraphrase:Inevitably we sometimes fall ill, but when we get well again we can always get back to our normal life and work on our land.Unit 41. Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2)Paraphrase:Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.2. …a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4)Paraphrase:…an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.3. The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)Paraphrase:The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest.4. You are disillusioned. (para. 5)Paraphrase:You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.5. Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)Paraphrase:Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.By then I will have fulfilled my mission.6. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6)Paraphrase:In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.7. I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time. (para. 11) Paraphrase:(He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max)why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.)8. It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12) Paraphrase:If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.9. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, … (para.15) Paraphrase:I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.10. Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para. 22)Paraphrase:He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest.Unit 61. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak. (para. 1) Paraphrase:When the radiator started to drip, my old jeep was trying hard to climb up the mountain in the scenery rural area.2. The over-heated engine forced me to stop at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that were scattered here and there. (para. 1)Paraphrase:Due to the high temperature of the engine, I had to stop at the next village, which contained a small shop and several houses that were loosely distributed.3. He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his statement. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Then he examined me with great caution in the way of ensuring whether I understood the importance of his words.4. As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. (para. 5)Paraphrase:As someone educated in the United States, I naturally had never paid any attention to the green banana, except to take it as a fruit which was not yet ripe or which was not yet ready to be picked and eaten.5. It was my own time that had come, all in relation to it. (para.5) Paraphrase:It was me who had come to know the green bananas, and everything connected with it. According to the author, every civilization has special geniuses (symbolized by the green banana), which have existed for many years. But they will not come to your notice and benefit you until and unless you are ready to go out and meet them.6. I had been wondering for some time about what educators like to call “learning moments”, and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once. (para. 5)Paraphrase:The two things that suddenly dawned on him are: the fact that every civilization has wonderful treasure to share with others and the idea that every village, town, region or country has a right to regard itself as the center of the world.7. The cultures of the world are full of unexpected green bananas with special value and meaning. (8)Paraphrase:The green bananas have become a symbol of hiddentreasures from every culture. For proper understanding of a piece of writing, it is often important to notice such symbolic language and to know what the symbols stand for.Unit 81. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. (para. 1) Paraphrase:He held his thumb out and the gas can to show that he was out of gas and needed a lift to the nearest gas station. Generally speaking, at the same time of holding his thumb out, a hitchhiker also has a board in his hand, on which the name of the place he wants to go is written. Here, the gas can shows that the young man has run out of gasoline for his car.2. Leaving him stranded in the desert did not bother me so much. (para. 2) Paraphrase:Because the author thought it was sensible for him to do so and did so indeed as a matter of course as other people would do the same in the situation.It shows that it was really something common. The real issue then was not that he didn’t help t he young man but that he never thought about offering help to strangers.3. It would be cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. (para. 5)Paraphrase:I would travel without a penny through the country where money was extremely important.4. I rose early…and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles “America”. (para. 6)Paraphrase:Because what he wanted to do was to discover America and American people. The destination of the journey was Cape Fear,just literally, but the real destination was to seek understanding of the country and its people.5. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming. In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa.Paraphrase:They suggest that the people there (probably people everywhere), were more or less provincial (another sub-concept of ethnocentric?). They tended to make false assumptions about people in other places, . the people in their place were nicer/better than those in other places.6. I didn’t know wheth er to kiss them or scold them for stopping. (para. 8) Paraphrase:(Because the situation when the two little ladies stopped for the author was, in his eyes, potentially dangerous for them. He says so to emphasize both the kindness and courage the ladies showed in that particular situation.)7. Once when I was hitchhiking unsuccessfully in the rain, a trucker pulled over, locking his brakes so hard he skidded on the grass shoulder. (Para. 9) Paraphrase:(Because he had to. Otherwise he would not be able to stop right before the author. It shows the mental struggle that was probably going on in the driver’s mind. He was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker, which made it more difficult for him to make such a decision at the moment than others. However, he chose to stop finally and his kindness was thereby highlighted.)8. Those who had the least to give often gave the most.Paraphrase:Poor people are often more generous. They are often ready/willing to give comparatively more of what they have tothose in need than rich people.9. Now we’re talking, I thought.Paraphrase:Now he knew what I wanted and the talk was going in the right direction.10. “When we do, ” he said, “it’s usually kin.” (Para. 13)Paraphrase:(The local people do not usually entertain/receive guests at home.) They only do this for their kin relatives.11. In spite of everything, you can still depend on the kindness of strangers. Paraphrase:(It means the fact that there are people who are indifferent to other people’s needs/ who refuse to help others/who may hesitate to help and people may say about lack of compassion in our society and a generally moral decay in our society.I find, however, on the whole you can still depend on the kindness of strangers.)Unit 91. The impressiveness was normal and not for show, for spectators were few. (para. 1)Paraphrase:The police officer walked that way habitually, not to attract attention or admiration because there were few people in the streets to be impressed. Thedescription shows that the policeman quite enjoyed his work.2. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club with many clever movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye down the peaceful street, the officer, with his strongly built form and slight air of superiority, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. (para. 2)Paraphrase:From how he looked and what he did on the beat, we can see that the policeman was competent at, confident of, proud of, and dutiful to his job. All these factors gave people the impression that he was a trustworthy protector of the peace. ( Notice how a string of present participles are used as adverbials to vividly describe the policeman’s actions.)3. The area was one that kept early hours. (para. 2)Paraphrase:People in that area closed their stores pretty early.4. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. (para. 7) Paraphrase:The next morning I was going to leave (New York) for the West as planned to make a lot of money and get rich.5. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fate worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be. (para. 7) Paraphrase:We thought by that time we would have found out our fate and known how much we have achieved materially—whether our fortune huge or small.6. But after a year or two we lost track of each other. (para. 9) Paraphrase:We wrote letters and kept in touch with each other for a year or two, and then we stopped writing and haven’t heard from or heard of each other. Now ne ither of us knows what has happened or is happening to the other.7. You see, the West is a pretty big place, and I kept running around over it pretty lively. (para. 9)Paraphrase:I kept moving around in the West, never staying in the sameplace for long. (And that’s why it was hard for us to keep track of each other.)8. …and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up. (para. 9)Paraphrase:If my old friend comes to meet me as he promised, I would think my trouble of travelling so far is fairly rewarded.9. He was a kind of slow man, though, good fellow as he was. (para. 13) Paraphrase:However, he wasn’t very smart, even thought he was a good person.10. I’ve had to compete with some of the sharpest brains going to get my money. (para. 13 )Paraphrase:In order to make money, I had to compete with the most shrewd and crafty people.11. A man gets stuck in New York. It takes the West to makea man really keen. (para. 13)Paraphrase:A man is unable to go very far or to be very successful in New York where lifeis boring and opportunities for change are few. He has to go to the West to becomean eager and exciting person.The man from the west means that New York City was “civilized”; it had too many laws, and that getting rich quickly was less likely. In the West, however,one could by-pass the rules, and though being tougher and smarter one could becomerich very fast.12. I should say not! (para. 16)Paraphrase:Of course I am not going to leave immediately.13. The few foot passengers in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. (para. 18 )Paraphrase:There were few people in the street of this part of the city. They had turned their coat collars high and kept their hands in their pockets for warmth. T hey didn’t look happy and were walking fast without saying anything.14. “Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival. (para. 21)Paraphrase:“Bless my heart!” the man who had just arrived said aloud in surprise.15. It’s Bob, sure a fate. (par a. 22)Paraphrase:Definitely it’s you, Bob.16. How has the West treated you, old man? (para. 22)Paraphrase:How well did you do in the West, old friend?17. …we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk aboutold times. （para. 26）Paraphrase:I’ve heard of a place, so let’s go there and we will have a long talk about those happy days we spent together in the past. Note that probably the plainclothes policeman was thinking: I’ll take you to the police station andyou will tell me about the crimes you committed in the past.18. At the corner stood a drugstore brilliant with electriclights. (para. 28) Paraphrase:There was a drugstore at the corner. Its electric lights were on and it was very bright inside.19. Chicago thinks you may come over our way and telegraphs us she wants to havea chat with you. (para. 31)Paraphrase:The Chicago Police Department thinks you may come to New York, sent us a telegraph and asked us to help them track you down and arrest.20. Going quietly, are yo u? That’s sen sible. (para. 31)Paraphrase:You won’t put up a fight and resist arrest, will you. That (cooperating will us without causing any disturbance) is the right thing to do.21. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clo thes man to do the job. (para. 33)Paraphrase:For some reason I couldn’t arrest you myself, so I had a policeman not wearing a uniform do it.Jimmy had mixed feelings. He knew what his duty was. But the memories of their friendship, the expressions of Bob’s undying respect and admiration for him and the fact that Bob had come all the way from a thousand miles away just to keep the appointment made 20 years before must have deeply touched him. Therefore, he could not bring himself to arrest Bob.Unit 101. The end of manual labor was liberating. (1)Paraphrase:Mandela is talking about forced labor. He felt liberated afterthe manual labor had been ended.2. To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one’s daily life. (2)Paraphrase:In order not to die and go on living in prison, prisoners must cultivate ways to learn to enjoy themselves in their daily life.3. But eventually they gave in, and we were able to cut out a small garden ona narrow patch of earth against the far wall. (3)Paraphrase:But finally they agreed unwillingly, and we were able to mark out a small garden on a strip of earth against the wall in the distance.4. At the time, some of my comrades joked that I was a miner at heart, for I spent my days in a wasteland and my free time digging in the courtyard. (4) Paraphrase:At that time, some of my comrades said jokingly that I was really a miner since I spent my days in a land which had been deserted for a long time and my spare time digging in the courtyard.5. The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions.(5)Paraphrase:The person in charge didn’t feel regretful that they had allowed me to have a garden because as soon as the garden began to grow well, I often gave the warders some of my best tomatoes and onions.6. I told her this small story at great length. I do not knowwhat she read into that letter, (11)Paraphrase:I told her this small story in detail. I do not know whether she understood the meaning of the letter more than it did.。