Study the following sentences carefully and then paraphrase them in English:Unit One Your College Years1.… identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited from parents),shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events. (2)Who we are is determined by three things: first, our genes, or what our parents have given us, our legacy; second, environment, and third, luck or opportunities.2.These religious, moral, and ethical values that are set during the college yearsoften last a lifetime. (7)These values that are established during the college years often last a lifetime. It is believed that our character or basic moral principles are formulated during this period of time.3.These are exciting times yet frustrating times. Probably nothing can make studentsfeel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.It is difficult for a college student to make a clear role of being a man or a woman in the future because they feel excited and confused about their sexual roles. They may feel happy and unhappy, without much hope for the future.4.Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the waythey are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with. (5) When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.5.It may be heightened by their choice to purse a college education. (3)If they choose to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents.6.While students are going through an identity crisis, they are becomingindependent from their parents yet are probably still very dependent on them. This independence/dependence struggle is very much part of the later adolescence stage.They have been away from their parents and become independent, but somehow they can not be completely independent from their parents because they still need their parents to provide the money to support their life and study.Unit 3 A Dill Pickle1.She shivered, hearing the boatman's song break out again loud and tragic, andseeing…She was very sensitive to art and music and she felt excited as the man was describing the beautiful picture.2.… although at the time that letter nearly finished my life. I found… and I couldn'thelp laughing as I read it.To write such a break-up letter was very difficult for Vera. The letter reminded them of the heart-broken feeling and it finished both the man and the woman. But he trivialized the letter, and even mocked the letter, which hurt Vera deeply.3.His was the truer.That memory about the ridiculous scene gradually disappeared. After all, it was a wonderful afternoon. His memory was the truer one. They did have a good time on that whole afternoon.4.… she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long within her bosom stir,stretch itself, yawn, prick up its ears, and suddenly bound to its feet, and fix its longing, hungry stare upon those faraway places.Her strong desire to go to those places held so long in her bosom now awoke. The desire became stronger and stronger. She was burst with her desire.5.He let it go at that.He didn't pursue the matter, showing once again how self-centered he was. Under normal circumstance, a man would be dying to know what had happened to the woman to force herself to part with her beloved piano.Unit 4 Diogenes and Alexander1.Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities andextravagances: only so can you live a free life. (4)Only when you live without artificial and false conventions and avoid complex lives can you live a free life.2.In order to procure a quantity of false, perishable goods he has sold the only true,lasting good, his own independence. (4)People get only some false and easily spoiled material goods at the cost of their own everlasting independence.3.The other great philosophers of the fourth century B.C., such as Plato andAristotle, taught mainly their own private pupils. (6)Other Greek philosophers of the time, such as Plato and Aristotle, gave lessons only to their own pupils.4.Diogenes took his old cask and began to r oll it up and down. “When you are all sobusy,” he said, “ I feel I ought to do something!” (9)When the Corinthians were busy preparing for the coming war, Diogenes rolled his cask up and down to ridicule their silly behavior.Unit 5 Silent Spring1.There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live inharmony with its surroundings. (1)Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things seemed to co-exist peacefully with their environment.2.In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed andflickered across a background of pines.In autumn, the oak, maple and birch trees turned yellow, red or brown, thus making a beautiful show of colors against the dark green of pine trees.3.The chemicals are the synthetic of man's inventive mind, creations having nocounterparts in nature.Nature does not produce such things as chemicals. They are man-made, the result of man's creative power.4.The whole process of spraying seems caught up in an endless spiral.The more insecticides are sprayed, the less effective they will become in destroying the “pests” then more deadly chemicals will be developed to kill them.This process will go on endlessly.5.Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape and holds the species withinbounds by the built-in checks and balances.Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself.Unit 8 In My Day1. She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure out of an inconceivable futureand promptly dismissed it. (Para.4)She looked steadily at me and could not recognize me because I was much too big for the son in her mind. She simply could not imagine the distant future when her little Russell would be that tall and big. Therefore, she immediately put that thought out of her mind.2.…she tripped on the stairs and tumbled down, ending at the bottom in the debrisof giblets, hot gravy,and battered turkey. (para. 15)As she was running upstairs with the turkey, she stumbled, fell down, and landed at the bottom of the stairs. The turkey flew from her platter to the ground, with its giblets, hot gravy all over the place.3.For ten years or more the ferocity with which she had once attacked life had beenturning to a rage against the weakness, the boredom, and the absence of love that too much age had brought her. (Para.32)For many years, she once attacked life with fieceness, but now it was gone. In its place was an uncontrollable anger. she was angry about her declining health, her boredom and her loneliness.4.I …had written her with some banal advice to look for the silver lining, to counther blessings instead of burdening others with her miseries. (Para.33)In a letter I had advised her to make a special effort to appreciate the good things in her life and not to worry those who came to see her by complaining about her unhappiness and suffering.5.If a parent does lift the curtain a bit, it is often only to stun the young with someexemplary tale of how much harder life was in the old days. (Para.40)If a parent tells the children something about his or her past, it often turns out to be a moral lesson about how hard life was for him or her, which does not make sense to the children.6.Instinctively, I wanted to break free, and cease being a creature defined by hertime. (Para.48)When my mother was young, I was her future. But I didn’t like it. I wanted to be free and independent. I wanted to live my own life and did not want to live my life by my mother’s standards.7. We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went intotheir making...（Para. 49）We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went into their making…We all come from the past, and children ought to know what made them what they are today, to know that life is a continuous process, it is like a human cord made of many people starting from a long time past continuing to the present day, a nd it can not be separated or understood just by one person’s life.。