现代大学英语精读3复习课件.pptVIP

Lesson 2 Para. 8 Newlyweds, he figured, were the best prospects. Para. 25 He also realized that when a computer is down, the customer wants it back up and working right away. Para. 25 So Dell guaranteed next-day on-site service for his products. Para. 30 There’s too much of an entitlement attitude nowadays. Lesson 3 Sentence Paraphrase 1 As if one’s humanness were a blueprint for instinctive, reflexive reactions to situations, like the rest of the animal kingdom. (Para. 2) As if the fact we are human were a kind of detailed plan which determines how we react to situations. This reaction is instinctive and natural just like with all animals, insects, birds. something you do when you react to a situation without thinking Sentence Paraphrase 2 … without which we are merely gigantic ants instinctively filling out our biologically determined destiny. (Para. 4) … without these qualities, we cease to be human and will be just like big ants which live out their lives in a way that is determined by their natural instincts. metaphor fulfill one’s destiny Sentence Paraphrase 3 … there is something extra special about the human mind that leads us… to take that extra step past some action that makes sense on only the basis of “survival of the fittest,” or “survival of the me.” (Para. 5) … there is something special about the human mind which can make us go beyond selfish actions, actions that can only be explained by the need for survival. Sentence Paraphrase 5 Yet, if all giving is simple motivated by the expectation of eventually getting, where does our special “humanness” come in? (Para. 6) to be the reason why someone does something Yet, if we give simply because we wish to get something in return, then what has that got to do with our “humanness”? Where would our “humanness” lie? to be involved Sentence Paraphrase 10 So many people espouse values about sex, abortion, honesty, etc., until the dilemma is theirs. (Para. 19) support