精读2期末考试paraphrase范围

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.

I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school,

but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that

read Bachelor of Science. (Para. 2)

I could have told him that he was now not getting training for a job in a technical

school but doing a . at a university.

3.

You will see to

it that the cyanide stays out

of

the aspirin,

that the bull doesn’t

jump the fence, or that

your client doesn’t

go to the electric chair as a result of

your incompetence. (Para. 5)

You have to take responsibility for the w

ork you do. If you’re a pharmacist, you

should

make

sure

that

aspirin

is

not

mixed

with

poisonous

chemicals.

As

an

engineer,

you

shouldn’t

get

things

out

of

control.

If

you

become

a

lawyer,

you

should make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you lack

adequate legal knowledge and skill to defend your client.

4.

Along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table,

supports your wife, and rears your children. (Para. 5)

In

addition

to

all

other

things

these

professions

offer,

they

provide

you

with

a

living so that you can support a family

—

wife and children.

5.

If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to

accept

as

a

gift

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)

If you are too anxious to make money, too ignorant to see your limitations, then

you couldn’t regard those great people’s minds as a gift to your humanity

, and thus

you can’t be a developed human.

6.

“Yes, different,” he snapped, angry with her resorting to this trick of repeating his

words so that they sounded hypocritical. (Para. 16)

“Yes, different,” he responded angrily and quickly and he hates it when she

adopts

this trick of repeating his words to make him sound false and mean.

7.

While he was at it, he decided, he might as well mop the floor. (Para. 42)

When he was doing the housework at that time of the night, he had better clean

the floor as well.

8.

He

’

d acted out of concern for her; he thought that it would be a nice gesture on

her part not to start up the conversation again. (Para. 21)

The

husband

had

shown

concern

and

care

for

his

wife,

and

he

hoped

that

she

would show her concern in return by not continuing the unpleasant conversation.

9.

Washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and

a single slap of metal on metal. (Para. 1)

With a sharp and loud noise, Washington, the neatly well-designed city of order

was thrown into a terrible confusion.

10.

Last Wednesday the elements, indifferent as ever, brought down Flight 90. And on