现代大学精读3paragraph

unit1/Bob Hartman/ 2/us Anna Quindlen 3/new zealand Katherine Mansfield 4/Gilbert Highet 5/Rachel Carson--writer,scientist,ecologist 8/Russell Baker

4/Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.
---When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.
5/However, these matters are questioned and in some cases rebelled against.
---However, people often doubts about these matters and sometimes oppose them.
7/Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy.
→ Perhaps if a person works really hard at reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.
8/Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion.
→Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.
9/I realized that while my satisfaction in the sheer act of reading had not abated in the least, the world was often as hostile, or as blind to that joy as had been my girl friends.
→I realized that while my joy in reading had not weakened a bit, the world was just as blind or hostile to my joy as my girlfriends had been.
11/She shivered, hearing the boatman's song break out again loud and tragic, and seeing…
-- She was very sensitive to art and music and she felt excited as the man was describing the beautiful picture.
12☆He thought everybody lived far too elaborately, expensively, anxiously.
---He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure.
13☆He was not the first to inhabit such a thing. But he was the first who ever did so by choice, out of principle.
---He was not the first man who had lived in such a storage jar. But he was the first to do so because he wanted to.
14☆But he taught chiefly by example.
---Diogenes also taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting example for others to learn from .
15☆Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances: only so can you live a free life.
---Only when you live without artificial and false conventions and avoid complex lives can you live a free life.
16☆In order to procure a quantity of false, perishable goods he has sold the only true, lasting good, his own independence.
---People get only some false and easily spoiled material goods at the cost of their own everlasting independence.
18☆He knew that of all men then alive in the world only Alexander the conqueror and Diogenes the beggar were free.
---Alexander thought that he was free because he had absolute power and Diogenes was free because he didn’t need any power.
19☆In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a background of pines.
---In autumn, the oak, maple and birch trees turned yellow, red or brown, making a bea

utiful show of colors against the dark green of pine trees.
20☆On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound.
---The morning air used to vibrate with the singing of birds, but there was now no sound.
21☆Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight.
---When we think of the long history of life on earth, the degree living things affect their environment has been insignificant.
22☆The rapidity of change follows the impetuous pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.
---Man is changing nature rapidly while nature adjusts to the changes slowly.
23☆The chemicals are the synthetic creations of ☆
man’s inventive mind, having no counterparts
in nature.
---Man’s creative power Man-made products Nature does not produce such chemicals
25☆Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a
large number of poisons on the surface of the earth
without making it unfit for all life?
---Such a number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surely make it unfit for all living things.
27☆Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape and holds the species within bounds by the built-in checks and balance
---Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanism of itself.
28☆Such a system set the stage for explosive
increases in specific insect populations.
---Such a way of farming creates favorable conditions for the rapid increase of particular insects.
29☆Thus it is no accident that our most troublesome insects are introduced species.
---That’s why the most troublesome insects in our country are not native but introduced from other places.
37☆The orbits of her mind rarely touched present interrogators for more than a moment.
---She could hardly respond to the questions put to her at present because her mind was constantly wandering.

39☆These hopeless end-of-the–line visits with my mother made me wish I had not thrown off my own past so carelessly.
---Those last visits made me wish I had valued my past more, and had paid more attention to the world she represented.