1、星火书业 晨读英语美文 100 篇六级Passage 1. knowledge and VirtueKnowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humilitynor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential moti
2、ves, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of lifethese ar
3、e the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University.I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to th
4、e heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of prete
5、nse and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread o
6、f silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.Passage 2. “Packing” a Person A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exa
7、ggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the persons unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellish
8、ment, so that the person so packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively and lovely. A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze.
9、Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time. If you still enjoy lifes exuberance enough to retain self-confidence and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their r
10、iver of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life which now arrives at a complacent stage of serenity indifferent to fame or wealth. There is no need to resort to hair-dyeing； the snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful
11、scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old synchronizing with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elders company is like reading a thick book of deluxe
12、edition that fascinates one so much as to be reluctant to part with. As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity establishes its brand by the right packaging. Passage 3. Three Passions I Have Lived for Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,
13、 have governed my life:the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, fir
14、st, because it brings ecstasyecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. 00:47.70I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness 00:52.19that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness 00:57.46looks over the rim of th
15、e world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. 01:04.12I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, 01:10.02in a mystic miniature, 01:11.89the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. 01:17.90This is what I sought, and though it might seem too
16、 good for human life, 01:23.92this is whatat lastI have found. 01:28.08With equal passion I have sought knowledge. 01:32.12I have wished to understand the hearts of men. 01:36.06I have wished to know why the stars shine . 01:40.44A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. 01:45.37Love and know
17、ledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. 01:53.35But always pity brought me back to earth. 01:56.96Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. 02:01.67Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people 02:08.23a hated burden to their sons, 02:10.9
18、7and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. 02:19.28I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. 02:25.73This has been my life. 02:28.36I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again 02:32.52if the chance were offe
19、red me.00:01.43Passage 4. A Little Girl 00:05.59Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. 00:14.23With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, 00:19.37while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud 00:24.08that hovered li
20、ke a golden feather above her head. 00:28.56The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair, 00:35.01gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. 00:43.26So completely absorbed was she in watching the cloud to which her s
21、trange song or incantation seemed addressed, 00:52.40that she did not observe me when I rose and went towards her. 00:57.00Over her head, high up in the blue, 01:00.50a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy cloud was singing, as if in rivalry. 01:07.09As I slowly approached the child, 01:10.0
22、5I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, 01:16.28and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely. 01:22.19Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet, 01:27.33were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most pecu
23、liar way, 01:33.25and these matched in hue her eyebrows, 01:36.53and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat were quivering in the sunlight. 01:42.43All this I did not take in at once; 01:45.28for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up int
24、o my face. 01:53.26Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth, 01:59.06grew upon me as I stood silently gazing. 02:02.45Here seemed to me a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty. 02:09.79Yet it was not her beauty so much as the lo
25、ok she gave me that fascinated me, melted me.00:00.87Passage 5 Declaration of Independence 00:07.00When in the Course of human events, 00:10.39it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands 00:15.75which have connected them with another, 00:17.93and to assume among the powers of
26、 the earth, 00:21.22the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Natures God entitle them, 00:28.33a decent respect to the opinions of mankind 00:32.16requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 00:38.08We hold these truths to be self-evident
27、, that all men are created equal, 00:44.74that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, 00:50.21that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. 00:55.47That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, 01:00.39deriving their just powers fro
28、m the consent of the governed, 01:05.31That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, 01:10.67it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, 01:15.38and to institute new Government, 01:17.90laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such
29、form, 01:24.35as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 01:30.37Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established 01:35.51should not be changed for light and transient causes; 01:39.34and accordingly all experience has shown, 01:42.62that mankind are more
30、 disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, 01:48.64than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 01:53.89But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, 01:58.16pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them 02:03.63under absolute Despotis
31、m, it is their right, it is their duty, 02:08.88to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. 02:15.56Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; 02:20.58and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
32、02:28.49The history of the present King of Great Britain George III 02:34.00is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, 02:38.82all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. 02:45.49To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. 00:01.38Pass
33、age 6. A Tribute to the Dog00:06.08The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy.00:13.42His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful.00:20.31Those who are nearest and dearest to us,00:23.59those whom we trust with our happiness and
34、our good name,00:27.64may become traitors to their faith.00:30.70The money that a man has he may lose.00:33.77It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most.00:38.36A mans reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action.00:44.27The people who are prone to fall on their knees
35、 to do us honor when success is with us00:51.05may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.00:58.50The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world,01:05.61the one that never deserts him,01:08.45the one that never proves ungr
36、ateful or treacherous, is his dog.01:13.81A mans dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness.01:21.14He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely,01:27.93if only he may be near his masters side.01:31.75He will kiss the hand
37、that has no food to offer;01:35.15he will lick the wounds and sores that come from encounter with the roughness of the world.01:41.05He will guard the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.01:46.42When all other friends desert, he remains.01:50.13When riches take wings and reputation fal
38、ls to pieces,01:54.62he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journeys through the heavens.02:00.53If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless,02:07.09the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him,02:12.12to guard him against
39、danger, to fight against his enemies.02:16.18And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace,02:22.08and his body is laid away in the cold ground,02:25.69no matter if all other friends pursue their way,02:29.52there by the grave will the noble dog be found,02:33.35his
40、 head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness,02:39.70faithful and true even in death.00:00.42Passage 7. Knowledge and Progress00:03.71Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world?00:09.18Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place a
41、round us00:14.76and is becoming more and more manifest.00:17.49Although mankind has undergone no general improvement in intelligence or morality,00:23.40it has made extraordinary progress in the accumulation of knowledge.00:28.11Knowledge began to increase as soon as the thoughts of one individual00:34.23could be communicated to another by means of speech.00:37.85With the invention of writing， a great advance was made,00:41.89for knowledge could then be not only communicated but also stored.
