paraphrase-现代大学英语6

paraphrase-现代大学英语6 Paraphrase Lesson one 1. 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. Lesson two 1. But my father was deeply attracted to it precisely because of its unexplored, uncultivated natural state, and the challenge. 2. As a little girl, I believe 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. … Occasionally the law officers would make some effort without real earnest to investigate Watson and to bring him to court, but there seemed to be little concrete evidence to prove that he was responsible for certain illegal activities. 4. 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 twentieth century. 5. Before the family built their own house, they lived in a shabby cabin at Gopher Key, close to the merciless Watson. 6. We had abundant food on the island, and even the meals enjoyed by King Richard, who was famous for his love of food, could not possibly compare with ours. 7. 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. Lesson three 1. What people do may unintentionally cause droughts, floods, and heat 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. 3. Human activities have taken place over such large areas and with such intensity that 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 farmers applied more and more chemical fertilizer, but production did not increase Paraphrase at the same rate. 7. People, after digestion, excrete the waste which is flushed into the sewer system. The sewage goes to a treatment plant which modifies it, but it is still waste after being processed. The waste does not reenter the life cycle but disturbs the natural processes wherever it is dumped. 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 sides in the war of the two worlds, 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. Lesson four 1. 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. & Eliot's sophisticated work "The Cocktail Party". 3. I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbors' visibly hostile and violent way of lifts 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 of my new life style. 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 he strengthened, and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. But if they failed the teat, 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. Lesson five 1. As a nation, America has refused to cling to certain rigid principles concerning social and economic development. America has been adaptable and flexible. 2. No one can say that Americans have never been tempted by the approach of understanding, preserving or transforming the world according to rigid dogmas. 3. A mind influenced by Calvinist theology would surely find it somewhat difficult to resist other temptations to ideological thinking. 4. Abstract ideas have a place in pragmatism just as experience has a role in ideology. 5. As a man following a fixed set of beliefs, Jefferson is only an interesting historical Paraphrase figure. His beliefs are out of date and are irrelevant to present reality. 6. The essence of the theoretical system is put in the hands of a small group of people who can never go wrong. 7. In the universe a person whose mind is unconstrained may be able to discover relative truths but no man on earth can claim that he has already grasped the one and only Truth. 8. Ideology has the characteristic of a narcotic In spite of the fact that it has been proven wrong many times by experience, people still long to commit themselves to ideology. 9. The only thing that is sure of a despotic system is its unrestricted exercise of power. 10. The most outstanding achievement of humanity is they know that no matter how hard they try, they cannot achieve Absolute Truth, yet they continue to make great efforts and refuse to give up. Lesson seven 1. As a result of technological development, human beings now have the power to put an end to poverty and human misery, but at the same time they also possess the power to destroy the whole world, rendering it uninhabitable and lifeless. 2. We do not want to see or to allow the slow destruction of those human rights. 3. To the people of the underdeveloped countries living in poverty in rural areas, we are committed to helping them to rid themselves of mass poverty by their own efforts. 4. But we should not let any Communist power take advantage of this alliance for progress to expand its influence. 5. We want to make clear to the Communist powers that Americas are the Americas of the Americans. Do not attempt to penetrate into this area. 6. ... before the world is destroyed by a nuclear war launched in a preemptive attack or caused by accident. 7. Yet both sides attempt to get an edge in the nuclear arms race so as to break the mutual deterrence which has so far prevented the outbreak of a nuclear war. 8. To be ready to negotiate and establish friendly relations does not mean that we are weak or afraid. Declarations of sincere intention have to be tested by actions. 9. Let the two sides use the fruits of science for the benefit of humanity rather than using high-tech weapons to kill and destroy. 10. There have been occasions for each generation of Americans to be called upon to fight and die for their country. Lesson nine 1. This is perhaps because they only have places of birth, but not places where they feel at home and which they identify themselves with. But these girls are strongly influenced by their hometown, and the influence stays with them forever even after they leave their hometown, 2. The brown girls try hard to repress their emotions and passions. However, these natural human emotions cannot be wiped out totally. Sometimes they will emerge and burst out. And they will develop, become stronger and stay with them. So whenever and wherever this funk bursts out, the brown girls will do their best to stifle it. 3. 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 (girls like Pecola) were ignorant and uncomprehending. They Paraphrase did not ask question why their lives were so 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. 7. As the girls were growing into young women, they had never worn girdles to make their figure look slimmer, and thus more elegant; and when the boys grew up, they just began to wear their caps with the bills turned backward to indicate that they had become adults.