现代大学英语第五册精读paraphrase答案(整理版lesson1-lesson12).doc

Unit 12 1. And truth is slippery, hard to establish. Truth is not easy to grasp and very difficult to prove. 2. One of the more extraordinary truths about the soap opera that is the British royal… 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. The creation of character is, in fact, rapidly becoming an essential… Actually, the portrayal of fictional characters has quickly become a most important device employed by the press. 4. Willing drinking the poisoned chalice of fame… …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. For a novelist to be thus rewritten is, I recognize, a case of the biter bit. 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, intrusion into the private lives of public figures have prompted…… 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 where the powerful can hide behind the law, might not a good deal… …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 special-interest groups, claiming the moral high ground, now demand… 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 demandi