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1、2精读paraphraseUnit1（28）共九十三个。1 I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. (Para. 1)P: I had just completed my graduate studies and began teaching at the University of Kansas City2 ,New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a numb

2、er of things.P: Though I was a new teachen ,I knew I could tell him what a university was for,but I couldnt. 3 I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at eh end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Scien

3、ceP: I could have told him that he was now not getting training for a job in a technical school but doing a B.S. at a university.4 It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history

4、.P: The B.S. certificate would be an official proof that the holder had special knowledge of pharmacy, but it would also be a proof that he/ she had learned / absorbed some profound ideas of the past5. I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasnt going to be around long enough

5、for it to matter. P:I didnt actually say all this to him, because I didnt think he would stay at college very long, so it wouldnt be important whether or not he knew what university education was for6. Nevertheless, I was young and I had a high sense of duty and I tried to put it this wayP: Instead

6、of telling him the importance of an all-around education, I tried to convince him from a very practical point of view7. . You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesnt jump the fence, or that your client doesnt go to the electric chair as a result of your incompe

7、tence. P: You have to take responsibility for the work you do. If you re a pharmacist, you should make sure that aspirin is not mixed with poisonous chemicals. As an engineer, you shouldnt get things out of control. If you become a lawyer, you should make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to

8、death because you lack adequate legal knowledge and skill to defend your client.8.Along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children.P: In addition to all other things (such as satisfaction) these professions offer, they provid

9、e you with a living so that you can support a family: wife and children.9. . They will be your income, and may it always suffice10. Those professional skills will be rewarding for your career and we hope that there may always be opportunities of further learning.11. Will the children ever be exposed

10、 to a reasonably penetrating idea at home?P: Will your children ever hear you talk about something profound at home?12.Will you be presiding over a family that maintains some contact with the great democratic intellectP: Will you be head of a family who brings up the kids in a democratic spirit?13 W

11、ill there be a book in the house?P: Will you be reading serious books (not just popular fiction)?14 Will there be a painting a reasonably sensitive man can look at without shuddering?P: What kind of pictures will you put up in your house? Will you have a painting in your house that shows some taste

12、on your part?十五： to put you in touch with what the best human minds have thoughtP：to expose you to / make you understand the ideas, opinions and thinking of the best philosophers, scientists, writers and artists in human history. 十六. If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosoph

13、y, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of mans development we call history then you have no business being in college. Paraphrase ：If you dont want to improve your mind and broaden your horizon by studying a little literature, philosophy and the fine arts and history, you shouldnt b

14、e studying here at college17. You are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button Neanderthal. Paraphrase： You will soon become an uneducated, ignorant person who can only work machines and operate mechanical equipment18：Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of su

15、ch life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through them without making contact. Paraphrase ：A number of such push-button savages get college degrees. We cannot help that. But even with their degrees, we cant say that these people have received a proper co

16、llege education. It is more accurate to say that they come through college without learning anything.19：No one gets to be a human being unaided.Paraphrase：No one can grow up to be a civilized person without the help of others. 20：There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself ev

17、erything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human. Paraphrase： To become a civilized person, you need to acquire the knowledge and develop the culture a civilized society needs. One lifetime is too short to create an environment for him to become civilized.21：You know more because they lef

18、t you what they knew, because you can start from what the past learned for you. P:All human knowledge has been accumulated by people living in the past and has been passed on to us. You learn all this before you do any original research, or any research of your own. 22: As this is true of the techni

19、ques of mankind, so it is true of mankinds spiritual resourcesP: This is the way we learn and develop the techniques of mankind. This is also how we inherit and advance mankinds spiritual resources. 23: For a great book is necessarily a gift; it offers you a life you have not the time to live yourse

20、lf, and it takes you into a world you have not the time to travel in literal time. P: Because a great book is something given to us to enrich our lives. It presents to you a kind of life you dont have a chance to experience yourself, and it describes for you places you dont have time actually to vis

21、it. 24: A civilized mind is, in essence, one that contains many such lives and many such worldsP: Basically, a cultured and educated person should know about such great variety of lives and worlds2五：If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift

22、to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. (Para. 12)P：If you are too anxious to make money, too ignorant to see your limitations, then you couldnt regard those great peoples minds as a gift

23、to your humanity, and thus you cant be a developed human。2六：He might have said that no one would ever manage to become human if they hadnt read about itP：He might have added that a person wouldnt deserve to be called a human being if they hadnt read about it. 27：A university has no real existence an

24、d no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include. P：No matter who you are, a specialist or a common person, if the university cannot make you maintain contact with the best civilization of the

25、history that you should know it cannot be called university, and has no reason to exist. 28：The faculty, by its very existence, says implicitly: “We have been aided by many people, and by many books, in our attempt to make ourselves some sort of storehouse of human experience.” (Para. 14) Paraphrasi

26、ng: The existence of the faculty of the literal arts college itself says clearly: In our effort to make out faculty a place where our students can experience variety of life they do not have time to live themselves, we get a lot of help from many people and books, present and past.Unit3（13）1，And roo

27、t crops especially are hard to tell apart, when store-bought, from our own.P:It is really hard to recognize the difference of root crops we buy from stores and those we grow. 2，As it is, though, I cannot deny that when April comes I find myself going out to lean on the fence and look at that miserab

28、le plot of land, resolving with all my rational powers not to plant it again. P:However, in reality, I have to admit that when April comes I leaned on the fence and look at this patch painfully and reasonably made up my mind not to garden any more. 3,But inevitably a morning arrives when, just as I

29、am awakening, a scent wafts through the window, something like earth-as-air, a scent that seems to come up from the very center of this planet. P:But inevitably just as I am waking up in a morning, a pleasant smell floats up and pour in though the window. It smells like earth and it seems to rise fr

30、om inside the earth.4,the worms are deliciously worming their way through the melting soil.P:The birds start to cry really loudly. We are thinking the same thing: the soil is becoming soft and the delicious worms are moving across the soil.6. But black plastic looks so industrial, so unromantic, tha

31、t I have gradually moved over to hay mulch. (Para 4)Paraphrase:But black plastic looks so unnatural (because it is made in factories) and ugly that I have gradually shifted to hay mulch.7. Keeping a garden makes you aware of how delicate, bountiful, and easily ruined the surface of this little plane

32、t is. Paraphrase:If you keep a garden, it will help you realize how generous the land of the earth is to us and how easily damaged it is.9. I suppose if you loaded the soil with chemical fertilizer these differences would be less noticeable, but I use it sparingly and only in rows right where seeds are planted rather than broadcast over the whole area. (Para 5)Paraphrase:I suppose if you use a large quantity of chemical fertilizer on the soil, these differences would not be so obvious (would be c