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Study the following sentences
carefully and then paraphrase them in English:
Unit One Your College Years
1.
… identity is
determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited
from parents),
shaped by environment,
and influenced by chance events. (2)
Who we
are is
determined by three things:
first,
our genes, or what
our
parents
have
given us, our legacy; second, environment, and
third, luck or opportunities.
2.
These
religious,
moral,
and
ethical
values
that
are
set
during
the
college
years
often last a lifetime. (7)
These values that are established
during the college years often last a lifetime. It
is
believed
that
our
character
or
basic
moral
principles
are
formulated
during
this
period of time.
3.
These are
exciting times yet frustrating times. Probably
nothing can make students
feel lower or
higher emotionally than the way they are relating
to whomever they
are having a romantic
relationship with.
It is difficult for
a college student to make a clear role of being a
man or a woman
in the
future because they feel excited and confused
about their sexual roles. They
may feel happy and unhappy, without
much hope for the future.
4.
Probably nothing can make students feel
lower or higher emotionally than the way
they are relating to whomever they are
having a romantic relationship with. (5)
When students are in a romantic
relationship with the opposite sex, they are most
likely to feel unhappy or happy
emotionally.
5.
It may be heightened by their choice to
purse a college education. (3)
If they
choose to
continue their
education, they
will face an
even more
serious
struggle
between
the
desire
to
be
independent
and
the
need
to
depend
on
the
financial
support of their parents.
6.
While
students
are
going
through
an
identity
crisis,
they
are
becoming
independent from
their parents yet are probably still very
dependent on them. This
independence/dependence
struggle
is
very
much
part
of
the
later
adolescence
stage.
They have
been away from their parents and become
independent, but somehow
they can not be completely independent
from their parents because they still need
their parents to provide
the money to support their life and study.
Unit 3 A Dill Pickle
1.
She
shivered,
hearing
the
boatman's
song
break
out
again
loud
and
tragic,
and
seeing…
She
was
very
sensitive
to
art
and
music
and
she
felt
excited
as
the
man
was
describing the beautiful
picture.
2.
…
although at the time that letter nearly finished
my life. I found… and I couldn't
help
laughing as I read it.
To write such a
break-up letter was
very difficult for
Vera. The letter reminded
them of the
heart-broken feeling and it finished both the man
and the woman. But
he trivialized the
letter, and even mocked the letter, which hurt
Vera deeply.
3.
His was the truer.
That
memory about the ridiculous scene gradually
disappeared. After all, it was a
wonderful afternoon. His memory was the
truer one. They did have a good time
on
that whole afternoon.
4.
…
she
felt
the
strange
beast
that
had
slumbered
so
long
within
her
bosom
stir,
stretch itself, yawn,
prick up
its ears, and suddenly bound
to its feet, and fix its
longing,
hungry stare upon those faraway places.
Her strong desire to go to those places
held so long in her bosom now awoke. The
desire became stronger and stronger.
She was burst with her desire.
5.
He let it go
at that.
He didn't pursue the matter,
showing once again how self-centered he was. Under
normal circumstance, a man would be
dying to know what had happened to the
woman to force herself
to part with her beloved piano.
Unit 4
Diogenes
and Alexander
1.
Live without conventions, which are
artificial and false; escape complexities and
extravagances: only so can you live a
free life. (4)
Only
when
you
live
without
artificial
and
false
conventions
and
avoid
complex
lives can you live a free life.
2.
In order to
procure a quantity of false, perishable goods he
has sold the only true,
lasting good,
his own independence. (4)
People get only some false and easily
spoiled material goods at the cost of their
own everlasting independence.
3.
The
other
great
philosophers
of
the
fourth
century
B.C.,
such
as
Plato
and
Aristotle, taught mainly
their own private pupils. (6)
Other
Greek
philosophers
of
the
time,
such
as
Plato
and
Aristotle,
gave
lessons
only to their own
pupils.
4.
Diogenes took his old cask and began to
r
oll it up and down. “When you are all
so
busy,” he said, “ I feel I ought to
do something!” (9)
When the
Corinthians were busy preparing for the coming
war, Diogenes rolled
his cask up and
down to ridicule their silly behavior.
Unit 5 Silent Spring
1.
There was once
a town in the heart of America where all life
seemed to live in
harmony with its
surroundings.
(1)
Once upon a time there was a town in
the central part of America where all living
things seemed to co-exist peacefully
with their environment.
2.
In
autumn,
oak
and
maple
and
birch
set
up
a
blaze
of
color
that
flamed
and
flickered across a background of pines.
In
autumn,
the
oak,
maple
and
birch
trees
turned
yellow,
red
or
brown,
thus
making a beautiful show
of colors against the dark green of pine trees.
3.
The
chemicals
are
the
synthetic
of
man's
inventive
mind,
creations
having
no
counterparts in nature.
Nature does not produce such things as
chemicals. They are man-made, the result
of man's creative power.
4.
The whole
process of spraying seems caught up in an endless
spiral.