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Unit 3 Book 4 The Rainbow of Knowledge 1. Difficult Sentences 1) (LL. 1~2) For more than ? of my life — 39 of my 50 years — I’ve either studied or taught in a school or a college in New York. What might people think of the author since he has spent more than ? of his life either studying or teaching? (=People might think that the author would know more than the average person, and that he would feel confident in his knowledge and understanding of life.) Translate this sentence into Chinese. (=我这辈子四分之三以上的时间（50年中有39年）是在纽约的中小学或大学里度过的，不是在上学，就是在教学。) 2) (LL. 3~6) You might think, then, that after all this time I’d have some grasp of the situation, that I’d actually know things — that I’d have some positive sense of assurance, of certainty, about knowledge and about life. Why does the author use the modal verb “might” here? (=The modal verb “might” here is used to show that it is possible that someone may think this way, but the author is not quite sure about it.) How do you understand the part “I’d have some positive sense of assurance, of certainty, about knowledge and about life”? (=I’d have full confidence in terms of understanding knowledge and life.) 3) (LL. 8~9) To say that the more I know, the more I know I don’t know is, of course, contradictory. What does the author think of the statement “the more I know, the more I know I don’t know”? (=He thinks it is a self-contradictory statement — a paradox.) Have you ever felt “the more I know, the more I know I don’t know”? Please cite your personal experiences to illustrate your point. (=Open-ended.) 4) (LL. 19~22) As it grows, so does its circumference. And if that growing blackness represents knowledge, then as it grows, so does the awareness of what remains unknown. As one’s knowledge grows, what will happen to him according to the author? (=According to the author, as one’s knowledge grows, his awareness of what he still doesn’t know increases, too. In other words, the more he knows, the more