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And conversation is an activity found only among human beings.

Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or points of views.

In fact , people who are good at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his ideas.

People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not close friends for they are not deeply absorbed in each other’s private lives.

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The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.

These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feed in the fields , but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meet beef.

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The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it hard for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers. English received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.

The working people often mock the proper and formal language of the educated people.

10. As the early Saxon peasants , the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class. 11. There is always a great danger , as Carlyle put it , that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they

are supposed to represent. 1.

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. 4.

They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name. 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. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited. Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford. However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.

If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings. No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas

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 Senegales 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 there had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind．

1..Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to claim all men were created equal and God had endowed them with certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. However ,today this issue has not yet been settled 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 large number of joint undertakings.

4.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.

5.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in force.

6.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release,overwhelm mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident

7.Yet both groups of nations are attempting to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power that restrains each group from launching mankind;s final war.

8.So let us start once again , bearing in mind that being polite is not a sign of weakness.

9.Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.

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10.Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country by frighting and dying for their country’s cause.

11.Let us lead the country we love , knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not. 1. 2. 3.

He is a nice enough young fellow,you know , but he is empty-headed. A passing fashion or craze ,in my opinion, shows a complete lack of reason.

I should have known that raccoon coats would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s,came back. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know? My brain, which is precision instrument, began to work at high speed. Except for one thing(intelligence)Polly had all the other requirements.

She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time. In fact, she went in the opposite direction,that is , she was not intelligent but rather stupid. If you were no longer involved with her, others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.

10. His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat and then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the

coat grew stronger and his resolution not to abandon Polly became weaker. 11. To teach her to think seemed to be a rather big task.

12. One must admit the outcome did not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time. 13. There is a limit to what any human being can bear .

14. I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly ultimately rejected

me and ruined my plan.

15. Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic which was overwhelming me.

1.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 hometowns or their families.

9. The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmaker shy pocritically 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 were filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and \12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives

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