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Part I. Paraphrase the following sentences or sentence fragments. 1. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections of to the middle-aged 2. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure 3. with a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the festival of summer came to the city Omelas 4. the riders exercised their restive horses before the race 5. by the very fact of production, he has risen above the animal kingdom 6. work became the chief factor in a system of inner-worldly asceticism, an answer to man’s sense of aloneness and isolation 7. the country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills 8. it reduced the whole aspiration of a man to a macabre and depressing joke 9. the Fiesta appears to have sunk without a trace 10. it was the automotive equivalent of the International Style 11. and yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe 12. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. 13. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives. 14. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. 15. let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors 16. The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable. 17．Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit 18. each town had its fast set which prided itself on its unconventionality 19.? their high calls rise like the swallows’ crossing flights over the music and singing 20.? the riders exercised their restive horses before the race 21.? all are expressions of the creative transformation of nature by man’s reason and skill 22.? work became the chief factor in a system of inner-worldly asceticism, an answer to man’s sense of aloneness and isolation 23.? boy and man, I had been through it often before 24.? when