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UNIT 12. Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others lives.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends forthey are not deeply absorbed in each others lives.6.They are cattle in the fields,but we sit down to beef.These animals are called cattle when they are alive and fed in the fields; but when wesit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef. 8.English had come royally into its own.The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more. 10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. 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.UNIT 22.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies likeanimals(by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings)4.A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lightening speed. Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quicklygives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.6.every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. Every one of these poor Jews looks on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which theycould not possibly afford.8. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings 10.for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless,backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. 12.People with brown skins are next door to invisible. 14.How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?UNIT 32.This much we pledge-and more.We promise to do this much and we promise to do more.4. .our last best hope in an age where the instrument of war have far outpaced the instruments of pace. The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the tools to wage war have far surpassed and exceeded the tools to keep peace.6.before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipeout mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.8.So let us begin anew,remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. Let us start over again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.10.each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to theircountry (by fighting and dying for their countrys cause).UNIT 42.Fads, I submit,are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shows a complet lack of reason.4.All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them.Whereve you been?All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you dont know?6.With one omission,Polly fitted these specifications perfectly. Except for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all the other requirements.8.In fact,she veered in the opposite direction. In fact, she went in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.10.Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing,resolution waning. His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat.) Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope,but I decided to give it one more try.14. I was not Pygmalion;I was Frankenstein,and my monster had me by the throat.UNIT 62.New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends. New Yor now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion)of American and that it is a place where people can escaped from uniformity andcommonness.4.it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction. New York is regainning somewhat its status as a city that attract tourists.6.Natures pleasures are much qualified in New York. Being a large and crowded city with many tall buildings, etc., the chance to enjoy the pleasures of natrues is very limited in New York.8.But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated. But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.10.The television generation grew up in the insistent presence of hype. The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.12.Broadway,which seemed to be succumbing to be the tawdriness of its the environment,is astir again. Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.14.The place constantly exasperates,at times exhilarates. New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.UNIT 72.their high calls rising like the swallows crossing flights over the music and the singing. The shouting of the children could be heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying by overhead.4.Given a description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions.After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.6.They were mature,intelligent,passionate adults whose lives were not wretched. They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of intense feelings but they were not miserable people.8.the faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the ways of the city. The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets of the city.10.Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment. The habits of the child are so crude and uncultured that it wont be able to appreciate kind and tender treatment.12.It is the existence of the child,and their knowledge of existence,that make possible the nobility of their architecture,the poignancy of their music,the profundity of their science. The existence of the child and their knowledge of its existence is the reason that makes their buildings grand and impressive, their music moving and their science intelletually deep.
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