晨读英语100篇.doc

晨读英语100篇Passage 1. knowledge and Virtue00:28.00Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another;00:32.05good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility,00:36.97nor is largeness and justness of view faith.00:41.35Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound,00:46.05gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.00:54.15Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.01:01.59It is well to be a gentleman,01:04.11it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste,01:09.14a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,01:13.19a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life01:17.24these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge;01:22.05they are the objects of a University.01:25.45I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them;01:30.69but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness,01:37.37and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate,01:42.18to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them.01:49.18Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not;01:54.44they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run;02:02.10and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy,02:08.66not, I repeat, from their own fault,02:11.84but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not,02:18.94and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim.02:25.84Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk,02:32.18then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge02:38.75and 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 exaggeration, 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 embellishment, 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. 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 river 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 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 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 00:05.91Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:00:14.00the longing for love, the search for knowledge, 00:17.28and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. 00:21.44These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, 00:27.13in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, 00:31.41reaching to the very verge of despair. 00:34.36I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy 00:39.17ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life 00:44.97for 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 the 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. 1:17.90This is what I sought, and though it might seem too 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 knowledge, 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, 02:10.97and 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 offered me. Passage 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 like 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 strange 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, 01:10.05I 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 peculiar 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 into 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 look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me. Passage 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 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, 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 from 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 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 tra