Ⅱ Read the following passage carefully and then paraphrase the
numbered and underlined parts. ("Paraphrase" means "to explain the meaning in
your own English". )
The greatest results in life are attained by simple means, and the exercise
of ordinary qualities. The common life of every day, with its cares,
necessities, and duties, affords ample opportunity for acquiring experience of
the best kind; and(51)its most beaten paths provide the true worker with
abundant scope for effort and room for self-improvement. (52) The road of
human welfare lies along he old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they
who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the
most successful. Fortune has often been blamed for her
blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. (53)Those who look into
practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious,
as he winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators. In the pursuit
of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found
the most useful -- such as common sense, attention, application, and
perseverance. Genius may not be necessary, though even genius
of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities.
(54)The very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of
genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner
sort. (55) Some have even defined genius to be only common sense
intensifies. A distinguished teacher and resident of a college spoke of it
as the power of making efforts. John Foster held it to be the power f lighting
one’s own fire. Buffon said of genius "it is patience".
【参考答案】
Great men do not believe in the abilities of genius and they......