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Unit 12 1. Truth is not easy to grasp and very difficult to prove. 2. The scandals, sexual and other, involving members of the royal family, have in

recent years outshone the television serials dealing with family problems. The most remarkable fact is that the characters of these individuals who are part of the scandals are largely invented by the British press.

3. Actually, the portrayal of fictional characters has quickly become a most important

device employed by the press.

4. …these people are pleased and contented when they are in the limelight or in the

newspaper headlines although such fame may be an ill omen.

5. I am aware of the fact that since I am a novelist and have used many different types

of people as raw material for character creation, I myself being rewritten into someone unrecognizable to myself is a typical example of a person good at tricking others being tricked.

6. In Britain, as a result of exposure of private lives of famous people, certain groups of

influential people have demanded the adoption of laws protecting privacy.

7. …but if the illegal activities of those influential people could be kept unknown to the

public as a result of privacy protection laws, it is possible that a lot of other illegal activities could also be covered up by such laws.

8. Many organized groups pursuing special policy goals which assert that they are

morally superior to the rest of the rest of the population are now demanding that officials should be authorized to control the content of printed matters, TV programs and films.

9. Those who hold fundamentalist religious beliefs have recently been making louder

and louder demands that their conservative beliefs should be accepted without question.

10. …but now we are expected to accept the view that if we express disagreement with

those beliefs, if we think that those beliefs might be unsound or out of date or wrong, that they therefore could be debated, we are showing disrespect for their beliefs, we are going beyond the bounds of decent behavior.

Unit 11 1. My father caused the horses to move quickly down the road, hitting their hind part

with a light, quick blow. The bells rang lightly and quickly, but not necessarily harmoniously, over the snow, which in turn threw back a brightness that was like the sound of bells.

2. I was puzzled ad a little boy over the horses’ indifference towards their dead friend,

whose hide had now turned into my father’s overcoat. It was hard for me to understand why the horses did not know or care that the overcoat came from the hide of their friend. And the same man had also put a metal bar in their mouths to control them.

3. On our way, from time to time, we would come across a car moving slowly and

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carefully over the packed snow. It had difficulty climbing up hills, which were slippery with the snow, so it was often pulled up by a horse. The clumsy automobile was out of place and the high ranking officials sitting inside it just wanted to show off.

The smell of quite a number of big and strong animals was very strong. At the same time, since the barn was filled with animals, it was also warm,. Pigs were uttering deep, gloomy, and sonorous sounds…

With so much content and life in it, the rich odor of the barn appealed to my father much better than mild fresh air, which, according to him, was weak and lacked substance.

My aunt had been baking some bread for the purpose of making the oven ready for the cooking of the meat. As she passed by, I could smell the most delightful of all smells –that of the freshly baked bread.

During the confinement, since there was nothing for them to do or eat, they helped themselves freely to carrots, and now they were fed up with carrots.

It was a state of confusion because various dishes were kept going. It would be against the holy purpose and elated mood of Christmas to refuse any food passed to you.

The men overate themselves to such a degree that they could not move about and had to sit there, suffering from eating to te full capacity of their stomachs.

… the cardinals were deeply and vividly red, so when they swooped down on the feeder, they were like drops of blood out of the sky.

Unit 10 1. In or memory , the pre-september 11 world was peaceful, happy and safe

(overlooking the fatc that this was not the case) and will talk about hose days with a feeling of deep respect and love which can only be found in talking about dead people.

2. In order to win the war, we might have to give up some of the basic values and

liberties we treasure most. This might be the cost we have to pay.

3. They are planning to carry out te plan of expanding the power of law enforcement

agencies at home and of striking at the “axis of evil ” abroad so as to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach, such as Central Asia. Hence, the colonization to the future.

4. … which takes for granted that people think in a simple and uniform way while

actually the feelings, thoughts and views of the American people are as varied as America itself.

5. The terrorist attacks put us at the bottom of the hierarchy of human needs, trying

hard to reestablish our confidence in physical safety, the lowest type of safety.

6. We are used to thinking that western democracies practice rule of law and

individual rights and freedom are protected by law. Violation of individual rights and suppression of dissenting voices can only be found in repressive regimes.

7. People began to put less emphasis on the pursuit of wealth and possession of worldly

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goods. And the other two dangerous symptoms that went with materialism, that is physical separation from others and irrational behavior as a result of impulse also became less serious. Materialism, together with the accompanying symptoms of separation and compulsion, had been the cause of the ruin of community in this country.

… at a time when it is highly important for Americans to look into ourselves and ask ourselves why “they hate us ”, this concept directs our attention and thinking away from such analysis.

… history records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description.

In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images, images of large scale atrocity, we still take care to keep alive these images

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The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.

The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.

Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event. They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the treatest moment of their history.

Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on foot, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.

In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.

Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes one see far and broadens one’s horizon.

They would not yet change the direction shouthward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they did not want to lose sight of the mountains so soon.

I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, add which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.