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UNIT 1 2. Conversation is not for making a point. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view. 4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives. People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed in each other’s lives. 6.They are cattle in the fields,but we sit down to beef. These animals are called cattle when they are alive and fed in the fields; but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef. 8....English had come royally into its own. The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more. 10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class. UNIT 2 2.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact. 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) 4.A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lightening speed. 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. 6...every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. Every one of these poor Jews looks on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings 10...for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless,backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. 12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. 14.How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? UNIT 3 2.This much we pledge---and more. We promise to do this much and we promise to do more. ...our last best hope in an age wher