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Unit 9
1.The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. After heated debate and compromises, the Constitution was finally adopted by the Constitutional Convention and 39 out of 55 delegates signed the document. But the \"three-fifths〞 clause and the twenty years allowed for the slave trade showed the slave issue was not solved, so the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement, of the Constitution. 2.But it also comes from my own story.
My personal background and my success story ,rising from rags to riches ,also teaches me the importance of unity.
3.But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts-that out of many,we are truly one.
Through my experience in the United States, I am deeply rooted with the idea that America is not a total of adding everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.
4.Through the first year of this campaign,against all predictions to the contrary,we saw how hungry he American people were for this message of unity.
In spite of all predictions that I would fail in the campaign,we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign,which showed that the American people were eager to unity and change.
5.Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens,we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. People were encouraged to judge me in terms of race and color , raising the question of whether the United State would fare better with a black president. However , we won great victories even in some states which are more conservative and more racially biased.
6.We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the
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south Carolina primary.
The week before the Democrats were to select their delegates to the national convention in South Carolina ,racial tension which seemed insubstantial in the past before more frequent and more intense.
7.On one end of the spectrum,we’ve heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action;that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.
At one end of the entire range of opinion, there are people who say that I decided to run for presidency only because the desires of native liberals in achieving racial harmony without making great effort and I wanted to prove that black and white should have equal opportunity.
8.I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is impossible for me to repudiate the black community. Unit 11
1.Your imagination comes to life,and this,you think,is where Creation was begun. The landscape makes your imagination vivid, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.
2.But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival,and they never understood the grim.unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.
Warfare was important for the Kiowas more because they fought out of their habit,character and nature than for the sake of survival.Therefore,they never figured out why the US Cavalry kept attacking them so fiercely and cruelly. 3.My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years...
My grandmother was born eight or ten years after that event,so she did not suffering the humiliation of being put into a stone corral.
4.It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.
They moved toward the south and east,where the sun rises,and also toward the
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beginning of a new era,which led to the greatest moment of their history. 5.They acquired horses,and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.
They got horses,and galloping on horseback made them free to move,thus liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.
6.Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.
Far in the distance,there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes it possible to see far into the distance and admire the scene. 7.I was never sure that I had the right to hear,so exclusive were they of all mere custom and company.
I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, and which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.
8.Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room,she seemed beyond the reach of time.But that was illusion;I think I knew then that I should not see her again.
In thisway she was completely and inexplicably moved to another state in the dancing light among the shadows of her room,and it seemed that she would live forever.But that was a false idea,I realized the fact that this was going to be my last time to see her.
9.The women might indulge themselves;gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude.
The women who usually stayed at home and served their men ,might have a chance to enjoy themselves by gossiping with the other women on such occasion as a reward for their servitude. Unit 12
1....but as I looked out over the bow,the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. …but as I looked out over the bow, I could see there was notpossible to catch a large amount of fish.
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2....about the tunnel he was digging through time.
...about the ice core sample marked by annual layers, which can show the different degrees of population from year to year.
3.Industry meant coal,and later oil,and we began to burn lots of it-bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide The development of industry means the use of large amount of coal and later petroleum as fuels to generate power. When coal and oil are burned they emit carbon dioxide into the air which keeps more heat near the earth. When the level of carbon dioxide emission in the air becomes high, heat will find it difficult to get through it to go into higher altitudes. Thus the temperature of the earth gets warmer. 4.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Thinking about how a series of events might happen as a consequence of the thinning of the polar cap is not just a kind of practice in conjecture :It has got practical value. 5.Acre by acre,the rainforest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef.. Gradually trees in the rainforest are burned and the land is cleared and turned into pasture where cattle can be raised quickly and slaughtered so that the beef can be used in hamburgers. 6....which means are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard. Since miles of forest are being destroyed and the habitat of these rare birds no long exists,thousands of birds which we have not even had a chance to see will become extinct. 7.And why do other images,though sometimes equally dramatic,produce instead a kind of paralysis,focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient,less painful distraction? And why do other symbols, though sometimes no less surprising, only cause a kind of loss and inactivity and we concentrate our attention not on ways to deal with them but, instead on some other distractions which are easy and less painful to handle? 8.This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium 4 / 8 . that determines the pattern of winds,rainfall,surface temperatures,ocean currents and sea level. The global climate balance determines the the pattern of winds,rainfall,surface temperatures,ocean currents and sea level.Once this state of balance is broken,winds,rainfall,and ocean currents will become abnormal; surface temperatures and sea level will rise. 9.So far,however,we seem oblivious of the earth’s natural systems. So far, we seem unaware that the earth’s natural systems are delicate. 10.They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced. They are signs and indications showing that there exists a much greater and more serious problem than we have ever encountered. Unit 13 1.I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world,which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else except an occasional relaxation with poetry or music,have lost interest for me even to the extent of a bored distaste. I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world that I devoted all my attention, time and energy to them and only occasionally did I allow myself a little rest by reading poetry or listening to music. 2.Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out. Or maybe my suppressed inclination has been called out under Laura’s unintentional influence. 3.Dismissive as a Pharisee,I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. I was as careless of others as a Pharisee and I viewed with contempt all those who lived a less practical life than my own and regarded them as impractical inhabitants on the moon. 4.A hard materialism was my creed, accepted as a law of progress; any ascription of disinterested motives aroused not only my suspicion but 5 / 8 . my scorn. I firmly believed in materialism which in my opinion represented the law of human progress.When people said they did things out of unselfish motives, I suspected them and viewed them with contempt. 5.And now see how I stand,as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water colors of sunsets! Just imagine how I have changed now. Here I stand, sentimental and sensitive, like an old unmarried woman painting a water-color picture of sunset. 6. I want my fill of beauty before I go. I want to enjoy beauty as much as I can before I die. 7...no longer what people believe me to be,a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on a ocean-going liner,but a liberated being,bathed in mythological waters,an Endymion young and strong,with a god for his father and a vision of the world inspired from Olympus. At this moment I am not a middle-aged journalist that people believe me to be spending a holiday on an ocean-going liner. I have now become a liberated person, bathed in magic waters, and I feel I like Endymion, a young and strong man who had a god for his father and gifted with the power to see the world inspired by the gods at Olympus. 8.All weight is lifted from my limbs; 1 am one with the night... I feel that I am weightless and totally absorbed by the night and united with the night. 9.Thus,I imagine,must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution. Therefore ,I imagine devoted religious people must feel as clean and pure as I do now when they leave the solemn confessional after gaining pardon of their sins. 10.So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's Character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, 6 / 8 . like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome. In this way I let myself freely imagine what the innermost part of Laura's Character presents.She looks so severe outwardly,but inwardly she is full of tenderness -tenderness like delicate flowers waiting for the daring to discover them. 11.We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. We should all learn from the albatross and also know how far we can allow ourselves to go. 12. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance. Here I am born anew ,completely differently from the past. 13....the Pacific alone dwarfs all the continents put together. The pacific Ocean alone is much larger than all the continents combined. 14.. I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been. The storm that lasted two days has made me extremely excited and happy, but above all ,I love these idle days in which I throw off all the qualities,perspectives, values and everything else that made me as what I was :I am born anew. Unit 14 1.\"I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.〞 \"I think the Red Army men will be surrounded and captured in very large numbers〞 2.Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U. S. A. Hitler was hoping that if he attacked Russia ,he would win the support of capitalist and Right Wing in Britain and the US. 3.Winant said the same would be true of the U.S.A. Winant said the United States would adopt the same attitude; 7 / 8 . 4.If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. I would say a word in favor of anyone who is attacked by Hitler ,no matter how bad ,how wicked or evil he had been in the past. 5.\"It is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.〞 The Nazism has no lofty and righteous principle or goal ,and cares only its ambition to conquer the western emisphere and to enslave the other peoples. 6. \"I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.〞 I see the German bombers and fighters flying in the sky attacking the Russian army.They were once beaten by the British Royal Air Force,and now are happy because they think their new enemy in Russia is much easier and safer to conquer. 7. \"We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and resources.’ \"We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of our resources.〞 8.Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain. Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the fight against Nazi Germany when we have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful. 8 / 8 因篇幅问题不能全部显示，请点此查看更多更全内容