bugles高级英语第二册课文答案 paraphrase部分

2021年1月19日发(作者：ahoy)
lesson 1
1. We're 23 feet above sea level.
2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.
3. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.
4. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also
went out.
5. Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.
6. The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.
7. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he
blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.
8. Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.
9. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and
stopped.
10. Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the
hurricane.


lesson 2
1. The
burying-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 would not be 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 Senegalese 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
．
C
．
Os
．
marching
with the black soldiers
，
had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind
．


lesson 3
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
．

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
、
rulers
．

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
．





lesson 4


1. Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God
had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But
today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world.

2. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.

3.
United
and
working
together
we
can
accomplish
a
lot
of
things
in
a
great
number
of
joint
undertakings.

4. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of
progress to all our countries.

5. The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war
have far surpassed the instruments of peace.

6. We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would
continue to be in effect or in force.