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1、Confessions of a Miseducated Man,General Comprehension,Answer the following questions with the information from the text.,“These notes are in nature of a confession. It is the confession of a miseducated man.” What is a confession? Are there any differences between a miseducated man and an uneducate
2、d man?,Confession means statements of ones past misconception or wrong thinking. An uneducated person has received no formal education from school while a miseducated person has received formal education but is educated in the wrong way.,Detailed Comprehension,Paraphrase the following sentences with
3、 a special focus on the italicized parts.,These notes are in nature of a confession. It is the confession of a miseducated man.,These lines I have written down here are similar to a confession, the statements from a person who was educated in a wrong way.,I have become most aware of my lack of a pro
4、per education whenever I have had the chance to put it to the test.,Whenever I have had the chance to find out how good my education was, I have always been disappointed to realize that I was extremely short of a proper education.,Detailed Comprehension,Paraphrase the following sentences with a spec
5、ial focus on the italicized parts.,The test is a simple one: am I prepared to live and comprehend a world in which there are 3 billion people? Not the world as it was in 1850 or 1900, for which my education might have been adequate, but the world today.,I guess that my education would have been enou
6、gh if the world had been in 1850 or 1900 . Now there are 3 billion people in the world today and it develops in the fast pace. With my present education, am I able and willing to live and catch up with the changing world?,And the best place to apply that test is outside the country especially Asia a
7、nd Africa?,And the best place to carry out that test is to go and live in a foreign country, especially Asia and Africa.,Detailed Comprehension,Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.,Not that my education was a complete failure.,It was not that my education
8、was a complete failure. I did not mean that my education was completely useless.,General Comprehension,Answer the following questions with the information from the text.,“It prepared me very well for a birds-eye view of the world.” (paragraph 3) What does a birds eye view of the world tell people?,A
9、 birds-eye view of the world refers to a very general view of the world, a view that lacks depth and subtlety. Such view of the world can only give you a general and superficial impression of the world.,Detailed Comprehension,Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized
10、parts.,Geography had instructed me in differences of terrain, resources, and productivity.,Geography had taught me about differences in the type of land (plains, hills, deserts, etc.); the kind of resources (such as land resources, mineral resources, fish resources, etc); and in the level of economi
11、c development (whether it is developed or underdeveloped; industrialized or agricultural).,General Comprehension,Answer the following questions with the information from the text.,“Comparative culture had instructed me in the differences of background and group interests.” (paragraph 3) What does “g
12、roup interests” mean?,It refers to interests of ethnic, social, political groups.,“Anthropology had instructed me in the differences of facial bone structure, skin color and general physical aspect.” (paragraph 3) What does anthropology deal with?,It is the science that deals with the origins, physi
13、cal and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.,General Comprehension,Answer the following questions with the information from the text.,“ or that some people were vegetarian by religion or others by preference.” (paragraph 3) What does “by reli
14、gion or by preference” mean?,“By” here means “according to their different religions and preference.,Translate “I was not surprised at the fact that some people lived in mud huts and others in bamboo cottages; or that some used wood for fuel and others dung; or that some enjoyed music with a five-no
15、te scale and others with twelve; or that some people were vegetarian by religion and others by preference.,有人住土棚子里，也有人住在竹楼中； 有人用木柴当燃料，而有人却烧牲口的粪便；有人欣赏五音阶的音乐，其他人却喜欢十二音阶的音乐；有人坚持素食是出于宗教信仰，另外一些人吃素则是出于偏爱。对于这一切我都不再感到奇怪。,Detailed Comprehension,Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the i
16、talicized parts.,But my education failed to do was to teach me that the principal significance of such differences was that they were largely without significance.,However, my education couldnt tell me that seemingly significant differences of cultures, living styles etc., actually mean nothing.,然而我所受过的教育没有教给我的是：这些差异的最重要的意义就是他们实质上没有多大意义。,Detailed Comprehension,Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.,The differences were all but wiped out by the s
