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uld forget his own name.4)No doubt, had sb. taken a more … (adj.) look/view at sth., sb. would have done sth. else.某人對某事的反思毋庸置疑,如果人類用更具前瞻性的方式審視對大自然的開采,他們就不會遭受資源短缺了。通常后面的事更明顯或更易懂,所以將兩件事進行類比,以解釋為何第一件事是不可能的或不具有所說的特征。There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day.3)No more … than… 意為“不能… , 就像不能…一樣”。 they trained horses, stocked furnaces, made tires, stood on assembly lines, welding parts onto refrigerators or lubricating car engines.In the evenings and on weekends:they labored equally hard, working on their own small tract of land, fixing brokendown cars, repairing broken shutters and drafty windows. 2) The bodies of the men I knew were twisted and wounded in ways _visible______ and _invisible_______. (Para. 2)Visible ways:Heavy lifting had given many of them spinal problems and appalling injuries. Racing against conveyor belts had given some ulcersome had broken ribs and lost fingers.Their ankles and knees ached from years of standing on concrete. Some had partial vision loss as the glow of the welding flame damaged their optic receptors. Invisible ways:All around us, the fathers always seemed older than the mothers. Men wore out sooner, being martyrs of constant work.3)What did they do when men worked as soldiers? (Para. 3)Tips:When the shooting started, many of them would die for their patriotism in fields and forts of foreign outposts. This was what soldiers were for – they were tools like a wrench, a hammer or a screw. 4)What caused the author to be puzzled after he entered college? (Para. 5)Tips:The author was puzzled at women’s claim that men enjoy greater joys and more privileges. This was because he knew from his own experiences that men did much harder work and suffered much more than women.5)What kind of examples the author used to defend for men? (Para. 5)Tips:The right to work five days a week, 12 months a year, for 30 or 40 years, wedged in tight spaces in the textile mills, or in the coal mines, struggling to extract every last bit of coal from the rockhard earth? The right to die in war? The right to fix every leak in the roof, every gap in the fence? The right to pile banknotes high for a rich corporation in a city far away? The right to feel, when the layoff came or the mines shut down, not only afraid but also ashamed? 6)Why did the author envy women? (Para. 6)They were interested in art or music or literature, and enjoy a sense of ease. They did not have to go to war. The space of their paratively lightweight work seemed expansive. ? They clipped coupons, went to see n