Paraphrase Unit1 1. My plan was to keep my ears open and my mouth shut and hope no one would notice I was a freshman. I planned to be observant and silent so that nobody would notice that I was a freshman. 2. Popularity was not so important: running with the crowd was no longer a law of survival. It didn’t matter whether you were widely liked or not: you did not have to follow other people so as to be accepted by everybody else. 3. This was my big chance to do my own thing, be my own woman----if I could get past my preoccupation with doing everything perfectly. College offered a great chance for me to do my own thing and have my own style so long as I could give up the attempt to be perfect in everything. Unit2 1. He didn’t realize how hard his maxim hit. It often returns to haunt and rebuke me by raising the critical problem of priorities. He did not realize how much impact his works had on me. They often come to my mind and make me think of the important problem of priorities, and this is always the time I feel quite uneasy. 2. But in the light of time’s perspective their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the important tasks pushed aside. But as time passes, the urgent things gradually lose their seemingly importance, and at the same time we suffer from a sense of loss as we recall the important tasks that are left undone. Unit3 1. Food to my countrymen is one of the ecstasies of life, to be thought about in advance; to be smothered with loving care throughout its preparation; and to have time lavished on it in the final pleasure of eating. Food to us Chinese is one of the greatest joys in life: It is thought about befor...
