lesson 11. We're 23 feet above sea level.2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.6. The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.7. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.9. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.10. Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.lesson 21. The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.2. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals (by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings).3. They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name.4. Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.5. Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.6. Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.7. However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.8. If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for these trips would not be interesting)．10．life is very hard for ninety percent of the people．With hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil．11．She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community，that。

she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．12 .People with brown skins are almost invisible．13．The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．14．How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?。

15．Every white man，the onlookers，the officers on their horses and the white N．C．Os．marchingwith the black soldiers，had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind．lesson 31．And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings．(Animals and birds are not capable of conversation．)2．Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view．3．In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view．4．People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives．5.The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong．6．These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat．we call their meat beef．7．The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the、rulers．8．The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more．9．The phrase，the King’s English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes．The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people．10．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．11．There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent．For example，the word “dog”is a symbol representing a kind of animal．We mustn’t regard the word “dog”as being the animal itself．12．Even the most educated and literate people do not use standard，formal English all the time in their conversation．lesson 41. Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world.2. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.3. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.4. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.5. The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.6. We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.7. before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place 8. Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war.9. So let us start once again (to discuss and negotiate)and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness. 10. Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.11. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country's cause).12. Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability.lesson 71. As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had of- ten travelled through the region.2. But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and wretched this whole region was.3. This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lot appear as a ghastly, saddening joke.4. The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.5. The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright. / All the houses they built looked like bricks standing upright.6. These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope.7. When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a rotten egg.8. Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time. / Even in a steel town, old red bricks still appear pleasing to the eye.9. I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.10. They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they become almost fiendish and wicked. When one looks back at these houses whose ugliness is so fantastic and bizarre, one feels they must be the work of the devil himself.11. It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like.12. People in certain strata of American society seem definitely to hunger after ugly things; while in other less Christian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.13. These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind.14. They put a penthouse on top of it, painted in a bright, conspicuous yellow color and thought it looked perfect but they only managed to make it absolutely intolerable.15. From the intermingling of different nationalities and races in the United States emerges the American race which hates beauty as strongly as it hates truth．lesson 101. At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2. In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.3. The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.4. In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.5. The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.6. Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7. The young people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended.8. These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.9. The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.10. (Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.11. It was only natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds and writings extremely opposed war, Babbittry and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.lesson 121. The fate of an American is complicated and hard to understand.2. They were uneasy and uncomfortable in Europe as I was.3. They were all trying to find their own special individualities.4. I don't think I could have accepted in America my Negro status without feeling ashamed.5. Europe can also have a very frustrating or disabling effect.6. It is easier in Europe for people of different social groups and occupations to intermingle and have social intercourse.7. In Europe a good waiter and a good actor are equally proud of their social status and position. They are not jealous of each other and do not live in fear of losing their position.8. I was born in New York but have lived only in some small areas of the city.9. The reconsideration of the significance and importance of many things that one had taken for granted in the past can be very painful, though very valuable.10. The life of a writer really depends on his accepting the fact that no matter where he goes or what he does he will always carry the marks of his origins.11. American writers live in a mobile society where nothing is fixed, so they do not have a fixed society to describe.12. Every society is influenced and directed by hidden laws, and by many things deeply felt andtaken for granted by the people, though not openly spoken about.lesson 141. Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people.2. New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion)of America.3. Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual performance of Johnny Carson now replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California.4. New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourists.5. A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety (because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition).6. The chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited.7. At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems proudly and haughtily to darken the night sky.8. But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.9. In both these roles of banking and communications head- quarters, New York starts or originates very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created by people in other parts of the country.10. The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.11. Authors writing long serious novels earn their living in the meantime by also writing articles for popular magazines.12. Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.13. (If you tell a New Yorker about the vigor of outdoor pleasures, he will reply that) he prefers the unhealthy turmoil and animated life of a city.14. Those who failed in the struggle of life, the down-and-outs, are not hidden away in slums or ghettoes where other people can't see them.15. New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.。