現(xiàn)代大學(xué)英語第五冊精讀paraphrase答案(整理版lesson1-lesson12)

1、Unit 121. And truth is slippery, hard to establish.Truth is not easy to grasp and very difficult to prove.2. One of the more extraordinary truths about the soap opera that is the British royal…The scandals, sexual and ot

2、her, involving members of the royal family, have in recent years outshone the television serials dealing with family problems. The most remarkable fact is that the characters of these individuals who are part of the scan

3、dals are largely invented by the British press.3. The creation of character is, in fact, rapidly becoming an essential…Actually, the portrayal of fictional characters has quickly become a most important device employed b

4、y the press.4. Willing drinking the poisoned chalice of fame……these people are pleased and contented when they are in the limelight or in the newspaper headlines although such fame may be an ill omen.5. For a novelist to

5、 be thus rewritten is, I recognize, a case of the biter bit. I am aware of the fact that since I am a novelist and have used many different types of people as raw material for character creation, I myself being rewritten

6、 into someone unrecognizable to myself is a typical example of a person good at tricking others being tricked.6. In Britain, intrusion into the private lives of public figures have prompted……In Britain, as a result of ex

7、posure of private lives of famous people, certain groups of influential people have demanded the adoption of laws protecting privacy.7. But where the powerful can hide behind the law, might not a good deal… …but if the i

8、llegal activities of those influential people could be kept unknown to the public as a result of privacy protection laws, it is possible that a lot of other illegal activities could also be covered up by such laws.8. Man

9、y special-interest groups, claiming the moral high ground, now demand…Many organized groups pursuing special policy goals which assert that they are morally superior to the rest of the rest of the population are now dema

10、nding that officials should be authorized to control the content of printed matters, TV programs and films.9. Religious extremists, these days demand respect for their attitudes with growing stridency.Those who hold fund

11、amentalist religious beliefs have recently been making louder and louder demands that their conservative beliefs should be accepted without question.10. But now we are asked to agree that to dissent from those beliefs, t

12、o hold………but now we are expected to accept the view that if we express disagreement with those beliefs, if we think that those beliefs might be unsound or out of date or wrong, that they therefore could be debated, we ar

13、e showing disrespect for their beliefs, we are going beyond the bounds of decent behavior.Unit 111. My father would bring the team down Fifth Avenue at a smart trot, flicking……In order to win the war, we might have to gi

14、ve up some of the basic values and liberties we treasure most. This might be the cost we have to pay.3. Who are attempting to colonize the future with their own repressive agenda.They are planning to carry out the plan o

15、f expanding the power of law enforcement agencies at home and of striking at the “axis of evil” abroad so as to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach, such as Central Asia. Hence, the col

16、onization to the future.4. Which assumes the public is thinking in red, white and blue……… Which takes for granted that people think in a simple and uniform way while actually the feelings, thoughts and views of the Ameri

17、can people are as varied as America itself.5. We too are mired near the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid, struggling to regain……The terrorist attacks put us at the bottom of the hierarchy of human needs, trying hard to reestab

18、lish our confidence in physical safety, the lowest type of safety.6. It is something we associate with repressive regimes, not with participatory democracies.We are used to thinking that western democracies practice rule

19、 of law and individual rights and freedom are protected by law. Violation of individual rights and suppression of dissenting voices can only be found in repressive regimes.7. There was a relaxing of the rampant materiali

20、sm, along with its ugly…..,People began to put less emphasis on the pursuit of wealth and possession of worldly goods. And the other two dangerous symptoms that went with materialism, that is physical separation from oth

21、ers and irrational behavior as a result of impulse also became less serious. Materialism, together with the accompanying symptoms of separation and compulsion, had been the cause of the ruin of community in this country.

22、8. Discourages national introspection at a time when it would be most valuable.… At a time when it is highly important for Americans to look into ourselves and ask ourselves why “they hate us ”, this concept directs our

23、attention and thinking away from such analysis.9. History is a gallery of unspeakable crimes.… History records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description.10. We tend these imag

24、es like poisonous flowers in a nightmare garden.In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images, images of large scale atrocity, we still take care to keep alive these images.Unit 91. Your imagination comes to

25、 life, and this, you think, is where creation was begun.The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. But warfare for the Kiowas

26、was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than…… The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material ga

27、ins for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray