Paraphrase
Unit 9
1.The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. After heated debate and compromises, the Constitution was finally adopted by the Constitutional Convention and 39 out of 55 delegates signed the document.
But the “ three-fifths ” clause and the twenty years allowed for the slave trade showed the slave issue was not solved, so the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement, of the Constitution. 2.But it also comes from my own story.
My personal background and
my success story ,rising from rags to
riches ,also teaches me the importance of unity.
3.But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts-that out of many,we are truly one.
Through my experience in the United States, I am deeply rooted with the idea
that America is not a total of adding everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.
4.Through the first year of this campaign,against all predictions to the contrary,we saw how hungry he American people were for this message of
unity.
In spite of all predictions that I would fail in the campaign,we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign,which showed that the American people were eager to unity and change.
5.Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens,we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. People were encouraged to judge me in terms of race and color , raising the question of whether the United State would fare better with a black president. However , we won great victories even in some states which are more conservative and more racially biased.
6.We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the
south Carolina primary.
The week before the Democrats were to select their delegates to the national convention in South Carolina ,racial tension which seemed insubstantial in the past before more frequent and more intense.
7.On one end of the spectrum,we’ve heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action;that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.
At one end of the entire range of opinion, there are people who say that I decided to run for presidency only because the desires of native liberals in achieving racial harmony without making great effort and I wanted to prove that black and white should have equal opportunity.
8.I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.
It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is impossible for me to repudiate the black community.
Unit 11
1.Your imagination comes to life,and this,you think,is where Creation was begun. The landscape makes your imagination vivid, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.
2.But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival,and they never understood the grim.unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.
Warfare was important for the Kiowas more because they fought out of their habit,character and nature than for the sake of survival.Therefore,they never figured out why the US Cavalry kept attacking them so fiercely and cruelly.
3.My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten
years...
My grandmother was born eight or ten years after that event,so she did not suffering the humiliation of being put into a stone corral.
4.It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.
They moved toward the south and east,where the sun rises,and also toward the beginning of a new era,which led to the greatest moment of their history.
5.They acquired horses,and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.
They got horses,and galloping on horseback made them free to move,thus liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.
6.Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.
Far in the distance,there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes it possible to see far into the distance and admire the scene.
7.I was never sure that I had the right to hear,so exclusive were they of all mere custom and company.
I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, and which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.
8.Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room,she seemed beyond the reach of time.But that was illusion;I think I knew then that I should not see her again.
In this way she was completely and inexplicably moved to another state in the dancing light among the shadows of her room,and it seemed that she would live forever.But that was a false idea,I realized the fact that this was going to be my last time to see her.
9.The women might indulge themselves;gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude.
The women who usually stayed at home and served their men ,might have a chance to enjoy themselves by gossiping with the other women on such occasion as a reward for their servitude.
Unit 12
1....but as I looked out over the bow,the prospects of a good catch looked bleak.
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