Create a paraphrase of the following sentence from "the cold equations: " (10 points) there could be no alternative—but it required a few moments of conditioning for even an eds pilot to prepare himself to walk across the room and coldly, deliberately, take the life of a man he had yet to meet.

Paraphrasing involves re-writing the statements of a writer in another form while retaining the original information in the statement. 
The statement given above can be paraphrased thus:
The deed has to be done, no doubt about that, but a period of acclimatization was needed even for him, an EDS pilot, to totally hardened his heart in order to bring himself to brutally murder a stranger.

Your answer should be “b”