1.I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. (Para. 1)
… I had just completed my graduate studies and began teaching at the University of Kansas City
2. You are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button Neanderthal. (para.9)
Paraphrasing: You will become an uneducated person who can only work machines and operate mechanical equipment, not knowing anything about literature, philosophy, history, or art
3. There is a human instinct at work here, a kind of back-breaking make-believe that has no reality. (para.1)
Paraphrasing: Perhaps gardening is human nature. We like to exert ourselves year after year working in the garden, believing this year’s harvest will be better, just like we can always revive hope after repeated failures.
4. And the sun means business…(para.2)
Paraphrasing: The sun shines more brightly and it’s getting warmer
5.She is an outspoken, truthful woman, or she was until she learned better. (para.8)
Paraphrasing: She used to be a woman who spoke her mind and who was always straightforward in her speech, but now she has learned from experiences that it is not wise to do so。
6. Leave it to God to have picked the proper occupation for the only creature capable of such self-delusion. (para. 11)
Paraphrasing: God has done His job properly and chosen the right occupation for mankind, because only man can “deceive” themselves willingly, only man can regain hope after repeated failures, believing in new and better possibilities
7. I could tell she was having difficulty. (para.30)
Paraphrasing: I could see that she was having difficulty finding a suitable way to break the news.
8. In short, my education protected me against surprise. (para.3)
Paraphrasing: In a word, the education I had had taught me enough about the differences among people so that I wouldn’t feel surprised at what I saw, no matter how different they might be.
9.
Life is a rare occurrence among…that occupy space.(para.8)
Paraphrasing: (So far we’ve not yet found any sign of life in outer space.) Human life may well be the only life form in the universe, so it is more than precious ( It thus implies that the respect for the only and precious life is the very basis on which we build the future world community
10. My education had by-passed the similarities. (para.4)
Paraphrasing: The education I had had did not teach me/avoided with the similarities among peoples.
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