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第一课
1
．
And
conversation
is
an
activity
which
is
found
only
among
human
beings
．
(Animals and birds
are not capable of
conversation
．
)
2
．
Conversation is
not for persuading others to accept our idea or
point
of view
．
3
．
In fact a person who really enjoys and
is skilled at conversation will
not
argue to win or force others to accept his point
of view
．
4
．
People who meet
each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not
intimate friends for they are not
deeply absorbed or engrossed in each
other’s lives．
5
．
The
conversation could go on without anybody knowing
who was
right or
wrong
．
6
．
These animals are called cattle when
they are alive and feeding in the
fields
；
but when
we sit down at the table to
eat
．
we call their meat
beef
．
7
．
The
new
ruling
class
by
using
French
instead
of
English
made
it
difficult for the English to accept or
absorb the culture of the
、
ru
lers
．
8
．
The English
language received proper recognition and was used
by the
King once
more
．
9
．
The
phrase
，
the King’s
English，
has always been used
disrespectfully
and jokingly by the
lower classes
．
The working people very often make
fun of the proper and formal language
of the educated people
．
10
．
There
still
exists
in
the
working
people
，
as
in
the
early
Saxon
peasants
，
a
spirit
of
opposition
to
the
cultural
authority
of
the
ruling
class
．
11
．
There is always a great danger that we
might forget that words are
only
symbols
and
take
them
for
things
they
are
supposed
to
represent
．
For
example
，the word “dog” is a symbol
representing a
kind
of
animal
．We
mustn’t
regard
the
word
“dog”
as
being
the
animal
itself
．
12
．
Even the most educated and literate
people do not use
standard
，
formal English all
the time in their
conversation
．
第二课
1. The
buring-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of
wasteland
full of mounds of earth
looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of
land on which a building was going to
be put up.
2. All the
imperialists build up their empires by treating
the people in the
colonies like animals
(by not treating the people in the colonies as
human beings).
3. They are born. Then for a few years
they work, toil and starve. Finally
they die and are buried in graves
without a name.
4. Sitting
with his legs crossed and using a very old-
fashioned lathe, a
carpenter quickly
gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is
making.
5. Immediately from their dark
hole-like cells everywhere a great number
of Jews rushed out wildly excited.
6. Every one of these poor
Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of
luxury which they could not possibly
afford.
7. However, a
white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.
8. If you take a look at
the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see
everything but the human beings.
9. No one would think of organizing
cheap trips for the tourists to visit
the poor slum areas (for these trips
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interesting)
．
10
．
life is very
hard for ninety percent of the
people
．
With hard
backbreaking toil they can produce a
little food on the poor
soil
．
11
．
She took it
for granted that as an old woman she was the
lowest in
the community
，
that
。
she was only fit
for doing heavy work like an
animal
．
12
．
People with
brown skins are almost
invisible
．
13
．
The Senegales
soldiers were wearing
ready
—
made khaki uniforms
which hid their beautiful
well
—
built
bodies
．
14
．
How much
longer before they turn their guns around and
attack us?
。
15
．
Every white
man
，
the
onlookers
，
the officers on
their horses and the
white N
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．
marching with the black
soldiers
，
had this thought
hidden
somewhere or other in his
mind
．
第三课
1.
Our
ancestors
fought
a
revolutionary
war
to
maintain
that
all
men
were
created equal and God had given them certain
unalienable rights