高级英语 崔校平 老师博客里下的~
一至六单元哦~~
高级英语第一课Paraphrase练习
1. He told me that he had been intrigued with the "spiritual journey" of the essay, especially in Japan.
2. Unlikely as it may sound, this essay, written more than 70 years ago, is the underpinning of much Japanese productivity and the basis of many businessmen's life philosophies.
3. Many carry creased copies in their wallets.
4. Anyone worth his salt in Japanese business knows and uses this essay.
5. It is our Popeye's spinach.
6. It touches me at the core of my heart
7. If Westerners can understand Japanese reverence for it, maybe they can better understand the Japanese businessman's quest for spiritual sustenance in the midst of material abundance.
8. Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
9. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
10. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.
11. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
12. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
高级英语第二课paraphrase练习
1. Aman may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
2.It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.
3.Bookswind into the heart; the poet's verse slides in the current of our blood.
4. Agood book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts.
5. They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts.
6.Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago.
7.Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice.
8. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.
高级英语第三课paraphrase练习
1.It’s many years since we first met.
2.I was earning barely enough money to keep body and soul together.
3. Few men learn this until they are too old to make it of any consequence to a woman what they say.
4.I was startled when the bill of fare was brought, for the prices were a great deal higher than I had anticipated.
5.When my mutton chop arrived she took me quite seriously to task.
6.The smell of the melted butter tickled my nostrils as the nostrils of Jehovah were tickled by the burned offerings of the virtuous Semits.
7. It was past caring, so I ordered coffee for myself and an ice-cream and coffee for her.
8.Her eyes rested for an instant on the three francs I left for the waiter and I knew that she thought me mean.
9.Did I remember?
10。 My heart sank a little.
高级英语第四课paraphrase练习
1. Why do privates eat in the general mess and generals eat in the private mess?
2. Language is like the air we breathe.
3. Wometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asulum for the verbally insane.
4. And why, pray tell, does lisp have an s in it?
5. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
6. The insurance is invalid for the invalid.
7. The buck does funny things when does are present.
8. The dupm is so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
9. (Why is it that a woman can be a vision, but not a sight — unless your eyes hurt?) Then she can be "a sight of sore eyes".
高级英语第五课Paraphrase练习
1. Haze is a type of aerosol, a concentration of microscopic particles suspended in air, which diminishes the clearness of the atmosphere.
2. Haze particles may be either natural substances or polutants emitted by human activities.
3. The winter haze blankets an area roughly the size of North America.
4. Its density varies considerably by location and time, but it is often comparable to pollution levels occurring over medium-sized North American cities.
5. Analysis of chemical signatures revealed that most of the haze-forming pollutants do not originate in the Arctic but in industrialized regions further south on the Eurasian continent, with Russia, in particular, being the greatest source of the aerosols sampled as far away as Alaska.
6. Scientists have studied the routes that haze-forming pollutants take on their long journey to the Arctic by analyzing information on the chemical signatures, or tracers, of the aerosols along with meteorological data.
7. Although the effects of the various contaminants in the haze on flora and fauna have been studied in other regions, much remains to be learned about their impact on the fragile Arctic environment.
8. The dry, stable air mass that settles over the far north during the winter and early spring is not helpful to the deposition of aerosol particles.
9. Nevertheless, even small quantities of haze contaminants, such as pesticides and heavy metals, can disrupt the delicate ecosystems that exist tenuously in the harsh Arctic conditions.
10. As a result, snow and ice cover diminishes in the Arctic, and this cloud accelerates the warming tendency.
11. Any haze-induced warming would be in addition to any warming caused by a global greenhouse effect, which is projected to be most pronounced in the higher latitudes.
第六课Paraphrase练习
1.Before the Industrial Revolution scattered populations and steam and later petrol engines ensured easy mobility, there could have been few family reunions as we know this ceremony at the present time, with its assembling of infrequently-encountered but still familiar figures and the consequent getting up to date with the events in other people’s lives.
2. There must have been indeed a good deal of ‘dropping-in’, for if members of a family did not actually live in the same house, they were within easy walking distance of one another.
3. Present-day impressions of this important occasion are of a strange blending of formality, plain speaking with hovering dissension and a general lack of natural warmth.
4.The rarer such meetings, it would seem, the more important it was to reflect prosperity and propriety.
5.Firm attention was paid to suitable clothes and decorum while hostesses must demonstrate their ability to provide abundant meals in dignified surroundings.
6. Children eyed little-known cousins with distrust and they, together with grown-up daughters, had to entertain the company with piano-playing or recitations while their own parents beamed complacently.
7.The mask of formality gradually slipped and the natural individual, self-satisfied or envious, charitable or spiteful, assumed control.
8.But these less than perfect connections were, after all, part of oneself: unattractive and unsympathetic perhaps, rarely seen but in some indefinable way necessary.
9.The ritual of the family reunion is less rigid nowadays but, despite the availability of the private car, meetings are probably more infrequent.
10.Small families have been the fashion for more than fifty years and even uncles and aunts are in short supply.
11.There is a good chance moreover that the nearest family member lives two hundred miles away or even in another continent.
12. Few young couples even today marry without a united family blessing and a wedding affords an ideal family reunion.
13.Funerals have their own atmosphere and come nearest to Victorian tradition.
14.A feeling of guilt waits to pounce: a sudden burst of conversation or unfortunate laugh draws shocked attention.
15. The near relatives of the deceased are handled cautiously with hushed voices and patronizing solicitude.
16. Marriage, we read, is an outmoded institution.
17.Most of all we shall miss the presence with us of that little-loved, internationally-derided and very unfairly underrated mother-in-law.
