澳门大学申请现代大学英语6 课后习题paraphrase原文

Unit1

1. Virtue is ... self- centered.

Key: By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.

2.... (Poverty) was a product of their excessive fecundity...

Key: The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.

3. ...the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration.

Key: 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 merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God.

Key:

It

is

only

the

result

or

effect

of

the

law

of

the

survival

of

the

fittest

applied to nature of to human society.

5. It declined in popularity, and references to its acquired a condemnatory tone.

Key:

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 search for a way of getting the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it

was only suspended.

Key: The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not

been abandoned; it had only been put off.

7. ...only rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers,

and toilet seats.

Key: Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some

would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.

8. This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction.

It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.

9. Belief can be the servant of truth---but even more of convenience.

Key: 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... Who tells to much applause that the poor must have the cruel spur

of their own suffering to ensure effort...

Key:

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.

Unit2

1. But these marks of wild country called to may father like the legendary siren song.

Key:

Though

the

place

was

not

pleasant

or

disagreeable,

my

father

was

deeply attracted to

it precisely because of its unexplored, uncultivated natural

state,

and the challenge.

2.

might befall us if it did.

Key: As a little girl, I believed my father's words, and was genuinely afraid

of

the

possible

disaster--if

we

didn't

hurry

up,

the

day

would

catch

us

and

terrible

things might happen.

3. ...from

time

to

time

he

was

halfheartedly

sought

for

trial,

though

few

crimes

seemed to lead directly to his door.

Key:

In this place, though the police wound make some effort without real

earnest to investigate Watson and bring him to court, there seemed to be little concrete

evidence to prove that he was responsible for certain illegal activities.

4. The stranglehold Watson had over this section of Florida was not dissimilar to the

unscrupulous activities of certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that

our state was to suffer through its history.

Key:

The control Watson had over this part of Florida was much similar to

the dishonest or illegal activities of the law- enforcing officials and governors which

Florida witnessed in the 20th century.

5. There was the little shack, not the most gracious of living quarters, and there was a

murderer for our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles away.

Key:

Before the family built their own house, they lived in a shabby cabin

at Gopher Key, close to the merciless Watson.

6. King Richard in

his

gluttony never

sat

at

a table more sumptuous than ours was

three times a day...

Key: We had abundant food on the island, and even the meals enjoyed by King

Richard, who was famous for his love of food, couldn’t possibly compare with ours.

7. Despite the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be let off from our hours of school

indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine.

Key:

Although

it

was

very

hot

outside

in

the

sun,

we

were

happy

to

be

dismissed from my mother's sessions indoors. we would have to read and write with

her every day no matter what the weather was like.

Unit3

1

…

. Even droughts, floods and heat waves may become unwitting acts of man.

Key: What people do may unintentionally cause droughts, floods and heat waves.

2.

But

this

image,

now

repeatedly

thrust

before

us

in

photographs,

posters,

and

advertisements, is misleading.

Key: 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.

The

technosphere

has

become

sufficiently

large

and

intense

to

alter

the

natural

processes that govern the ecosphere.

Key: Human activities have taken place over such large areas and with such intensity

that they have already caused disastrous effects on ecology.

4. ...which

could

establish

itself

only

because

it

fitted

properly

into

the

preexisting

system.

Key:

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. Defined so narrowly, it is no surprise that cars have properties that are hostile to

their environment.

Key: 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. Yields rose, but not in proportion to the rate of fertilizer application...

Key:

the farmer applied more and more fertilizer, and the production did

rise

but did not increase at the same rate of the fertilizer.

7...their

waste

is

flushed

into

the

sewer

system

altered

in

composition

but

not

in

amount at treatment plant...

Key:

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. Left to their own devices, ecosystems are conservative...

Key: If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the

same with very little change

9. In contrast to the ecosphere, the technosphere is composed of objects and materials

that reflect a

rapid and relentless process of change and variation.

Key:

The

characteristics

of

the

objects

and

materials

in

the

technosphere

are

rapid change and great variety.

10. But this is done only at the cost of understanding.

Key: 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.

Unit 4 Nettles

1. How all my own territory would be altered, ad if a landslide had gone through it

and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.

Key:

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.

During

that

time

of

life

that

is

supposed

to

be

a

reproductive

daze,

with

the

woman's

mind

all

swamped

by

maternal

juices,

we

were

still

compelled

to

discuss

Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and

Key:

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

3. ...I would be frightened, not of any hostility but of a kind of nonexistence.

Key:

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---was it delicacy or disapproval? ---about my new life.

Key: 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 life style.

5. It would be a sleazy thing to do, in the house of his friends.

Key: It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in

the house of a friend.