【正文】 d 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 the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk,then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledgeand human reason to contend against those giants, Passage 2. “Packing” a PersonA person, like a modity, needs going too far is absolutely little exaggeration, however, does no harmwhen it shows the person39。he will lick the wounds and sores that e from encounter with the roughness of the will guard the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a all other friends desert, he riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces,he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journeys through the fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless,the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of acpanying him,to guard him against danger, to fight against his when the last scene of all es, and death takes the master in its embrace,and his body is laid away in the cold ground,no matter if all other friends pursue their way,there by the grave will the noble dog be found,his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness,faithful and true even in death.Passage 7. Knowledge and ProgressWhy does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world?Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around usand is being more and more mankind has undergone no general improvement in intelligence or morality,it has made extraordinary progress in the accumulation of began to increase as soon as the thoughts of one individualcould be municated to another by means of the invention of writing， a great advance was made,for knowledge could then be not only municated but also made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries:the growth of knowledge followed a kind of pound interest law,which was greatly enhanced by the invention of this was paratively slow until, with the ing of science,the tempo was suddenly knowledge began to be accumulated according to a systematic trickle became a stream。and I am caught, blankly, in his — the day flows away through the sink when I wash my hands,wears off in the bowl when I eat my meal,and passes away before my daydreaming gaze as reflect in can feel his haste now, so I reach out my hands to hold him back,but he keeps flowing past my withholding the evening, as I lie in bed, he strides over my body, glides past my feet, in his agile moment I open my eyes and meet the sun again, one whole day has bury my face in my hands and heave a the new day begins to flash past in the can I do, in this bustling world, with my days flying in their escape?Nothing but to hesitate, to have I been doing in that eightthousandday rush, apart from hesitating?Those bygone days have been dispersed as smoke by a light wind,or evaporated as mist by the morning traces have I left behind me?Have I ever left behind any gossamer traces at all?I have e to the world, stark naked。be the walls only plain, and I am first thing in one39。so did the exhausted laborers in the that lived or grew was oppressed by the glare。 —then silence now at length the city is asleep, and we can see the belated moon looks over the roofs, and finds no one to wele moonlight is lies here and there in the squares and the opening of the streets—angular like blocks of white marble.Passage 13. Peace and Development: the Themes of Our TimesPeace and development are the themes of the times.People across the world should join hands in advancing the lofty cause of peace and development of peaceful environment is indispensable for national,regional and even global peace or political stability there would be no economic progress to speak has been fully proved by both the past and the today’s world, the international situation is, on the whole, moving towards , conflicts and even local wars triggered by various factors have kept cropping up,and tension still remains in some this has impeded the economic development of the countries and regions concerned,and has also adversely affected the world responsible statesmen and governments must abide by the purposes of the UN Charterand the universally acknowledged norms governing international relations,and work for a universal, lasting and prehensive should be allowed to cause tension or armed conflicts against the interests of the are still in this world a few interest groups,which always want to seek gains by creating tension here and is against the will of the majority of the people and against the trend of the enormous market demand can be created and economic prosperity promotedonly when continued efforts are made to advance the cause of peace and development,to ensure that people around the world live and work in peace and contentmentand focus on economic development and on scientific and technological hope that all of us here today will join hands with all other peaceloving peopleand work for lasting world peace and the mon development and prosperityof all nations and regions.Passage 14. SelfEsteemSelfesteem is the bination of selfconfidence and selfrespect—the conviction that you are petent to cope with life’s challengesand are worthy of is the way you talk to yourself about has two interrelated aspects。 and I feel that I am not different it is in the city!It is late, and the crowd is step out upon the balcony, and lie in the very bosom of the cool,dewy night as if you folded her garments about lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black lamps are still burning up and down the long go by with grotesque shadows, now foreshortened,and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing,while a new one springs up behind the walker,and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a iron gates of the park shut with a jangling are footsteps