新编英语教程7课后paraphrase答案

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课后paraphrase 答案（Unit 1，2，3，4，5，9，10） Unit1

1. The differences for which language gets blamed may not be due so much to words as to communications on other levels beginning with English intonation (which sounds affected to many Americans) and continuing to ego-linked ways of handling time, space, and materials.

(11. 2-5)

Some people complain about the English language for its being so different in the two countries. These differences, however, may have resulted not from the words people use, but rather from individual linguistic habits, which are displayed in the adoption of a particular intonation (English intonation sounds unnatural to Americans), and extend down to the way people look at the world.

2. One of the basic reasons for this wide disparity is that in the United States we use space as a way of classifying people and activities, whereas in England it is the social system that determines who you are. (11. 7-9)

One of the important factors that has contributed to such a big difference is that the place where one lives, to Americans, can present a symbol of one’s status or activity, while in England, the class one belongs to identifies one’s position in society.

3. As a consequence, the English are puzzled by the American need for a secure place in which to work, an office. (11. 41 -43) ’.

As a result，it is hard for the English to figure out why Americans invariably feel it is necessary to find themselves a

space, such as an office, where they may work without being disturbed.

4. It took some time but finally we were able to identify most of the contrasting features of the American and British problems that were in conflict in this case. (11. 59-60)

It was not until some time later that we managed to discover the major differences that had frustrated both sides in the above story.

5. They have in effect internalized a set of barriers, which they erect and which others are supposed to recognize. (11. 66-67)

They have virtually built up, for themselves, a wall, which may keep them safe from disturbance when necessary and which, they assume, others should be able to perceive and respect.

Unit2

1. The most intensive study I ever made of tourists was at Torcello, where it is impossible to avoid them. (11. 1-2)

Since tourists can be seen almost everywhere at Torcello, I decided to observe them closely.

2. Torcello which used to be lonely as a cloud has recently become an outing from Venice.

(11. 9-10)

Torcello was at one time an island scarcely visited by people, but today it has grown to be a

magnet for tourists from Venice.

3. Byzantine art is an acquired taste and probably not one in ten of the visitors has acquired it. (11. 14-15)

To appreciate Byzantine art, one needs to cultivate a particular sense of beauty, but few of the tourists to Torcello have been so equipped.

4. As they are obliged, whether they like it or not, to live in

public during the whole summer, they very naturally try to extract some financial benefit from this state of affairs.

(11. 29-31)

They have no choice but to come into contact with the tourists throughout the summer, and it is not hard to imagine why they should try to earn some money out of this opportunity.

5. The priest organizes holy processions to coincide with the arrival of the steamer.

(11.43-44)

The priest arranges for the religious pageant to begin the moment the ship arrives.

Unit3

1. In a way, of course, the subway is the living symbol of all that adds up to lack of status in New Y ork. There is a sense of madness and disorientation at almost every express stop. (11. 1-3)

In New York’s underground transportation system, one finds many examples of what is low-class behavior in New York. The subway is disorganized and people move about wildly at each express stop.

2. Your tactile sense takes a crucifying you never dreamed possible. (11. 7-8)

You are being bumped撞击, shoved挤,推and prodded刺或戳amidst the crowd more than you ever expected

3. Also beggars. And among the beggars New York's status competition is renewed, there in the much despised subway. On the Seventh Avenue IRT line the competition is maniacal. Some evenings the beggars ricochet off one another between stops, calling one another-s and -s and telling each other to go find their own-car. (11. 19-23)

In New York’s much-hated subway, beggars compete against each other, which demonstrates New York’s status competition. On the Seventh Avenue IRT line, the competition grows so fierce that it borders on craziness. Some evenings when beggars spot one another between stops, they fight against each other, curse one another, and warn one another to stay away from where they are.

4. So today he does much better. He seems to make a living. He is no idler, lolly gagger or bum. He can look with condescension upon the states to which men fall. (11. 45-47)

Since he has perfected this strategy, he makes ends meet today --- people tend to give him money; he really is not a bum --- he has a job. He is now in a position to look down upon others who have unfortunately become bums.

5. Everyone stares at him briefly, at his congealed Wheatena-and-lint carcass, but no one breaks stride; and who knows how long it will be before finally two policemen have to come in and hold their breath and scrape him up out of the gloom and into the bosom of the law,’ from which he will emerge with a set of green fatigues, at least, and an honorable seat at night on the subway bench. (II. 57-62)

People briefly look at his body, which is covered with lint and dirt, but walk right on by him. No one knows how long it will be before two policemen spot. They will have to hold their breath from his stench恶臭, 臭气when they take him to the police station. They will give him a set of green work clothes which will make him more presentable像样的；中看的--- presentable enough to have a seat on the subway at night next to other presentable people.

Unit4

1. Part of the intricacy of co-ordination in using language lies in the different constraints operating in speech and writing. (11. 1-3)

What makes the use of a language complicated can partly be explained by the fact that there are many restrictions upon the spoken and written forms (of the language).

2. The stylistic range of English is wide and ultimately the gradations are infinite. (H. 4-5) The ways of expressing thoughts through the use of the English language vary so much that it is practically impossible to classify them neatly.

3. It may seem paradoxical to lay such stress on being conventional in the use of English when we may well feel that the big prizes go to people who are original and unconventional in their English. (11. 9-11)

It probably sounds contradictory that while we seem to be so particular about the accepted rules that govern the formal use of the language, some are trying to encourage people to be creative in their application of the English language.

4. Without a norm, it is difficult to recognize or practise originality. (1. 18)

It is in no sense easy for us even to tell what creativeness really is or how creativeness is to be achieved, unless we have some criterion to base our judgment on.

5. ... we may not feel any of htat distaste that constitutes reaction to a cliché

We may not think it at all disagreeable or offensive, which is typical of our feeling about a cliché.

Unit5

1. To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior. (11.

9-11)

When confronted by the Santa Ana, one has to believe, willingly or unwillingly, that people's acts are controlled by natural forces.

2. That was the kind of wind it was. (1.. 23-24)

That was the type of impact brought about by the wind. 3. I did not know then that there was any basis for the effect it had on all of us, but it turns out to be another of those cases in which science bears out folk wisdom. (11.24-25)

I was not able to figure out at that time how such an impact could have been possible, but it is yet one more instance where science has proved man's instinctive wiseness in his hypothesis that anything can happen in a natural calamity like this.

4. Just to watch the front-page news out of Los Angeles during a Santa Ana is to get very close to what it is about the place. (11. 57-58)

Read the cover page of any newspaper about Los Angeles when it has been hit by a Santa Ana, and you will be able to understand/will not fail to imagine what has become of the city.

5. It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination.

Only those who have lived in Los Angeles can possibly picture how vividly people feel about a Santa Ana.

Unit9

1. We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it. (11. 1-2)

We are living in a world which is quite unfamiliar to us, and we have no idea as to how to adapt ourselves to this new environment.

2. They were saved from looking at their lives as their own private affair. (11.—22-23) They were spared from perceiving that the purpose of their living in this world was to satisfy themselves only/their personal needs.

3. What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the foremost object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were obscured to the point of disappearing. (11. 36-38)

People expected that their government would offer them material comforts; with this major objective achieved, other goals like democracy, self-dependence and social obligations seemed almost of no concern for them.

4. She reached the point when the freedom she wanted was freedom from responsibility.

(11.41-42)

Freedom started to disappear when Athenians wanted to get away from responsibility for the common welfare.

5. But, “the excellent becomes the permanent,\" Aristotle said.

However, Aristotle remarked that whatever people viewed as superior would exist forever.

Unit10

1. For me, the pace is wrong for contemplation of either ideas or vistas. (11. 3-4)

As far as I am concerned, the rate at which I jog just will not allow me to think deeply or enjoy the view around me.

2. From the listless looks of some fellow trotters, I gather I am not alone in my unenthusiasm. (11.7-8)

The languid (疲倦的) faces of my fellow joggers have convinced me that I am not the only one who has not developed

an interest in jogging.

3. Weekend worship is less compulsory. (11. 30-31)

People no longer feel it obligatory to go to church over the weekend.

4. It is our modern irreligion, our lack of confidence in any hereafter, that makes us anxious to stretch our mortal stay as long as possible. (11. 37-39)

Today, our faith in an afterlife has diminished, and this encourages our desperate efforts to live longer in this world.

5. Like a hairshirt or a bed of nails, the more one hates it, the more virtuous it makes one feel. (11. 57-58)

Like the acceptance of a penance as a way of attaining virtue, one is even more prepared to embrace jogging, the more it proves itself to be boring-