【導(dǎo)讀】intellect,adelicatetaste,acandid,equitable,dispassionatemind,anobleand

　　

【正文】 cus 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. SelfEsteem Selfesteem 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。it entails a sense of personal efficacy and a sense of personal is the integrated sum of selfconfidence and is the conviction that one is petent to live and worthy of selfesteem and selfimage are developed by how we talk to of us have conscious and unconscious memories of all the times we felt bad or wrong—they are part of the unavoidable scars of is where the critical voice gets has a critical inner with low selfesteem simply have a more vicious and demeaning inner say that almost every aspect of our lives—our personal happiness, success, relationships with others, achievement, creativity, dependencies—are dependent on our level of more we have, the better we deal with selfesteem is important because when people experience it,they feel good and look good, they are effective and productive,and they respond to other people and themselves in healthy, positive, growing who have positive selfesteem know that they are lovable and capable,and they care about themselves and other do not have to build themselves up by tearing other people downor by patronizing less petent background largely determines what we will bee in personalityand more importantly in do feelings of worthlessness e from?Many e from our families,since more than 80% of our waking hours up to the age of eighteenare spent under their direct are who we are because of where we?ve build our own brands of selfesteem from four ingredients:fate, the positive things life offers, the negative things life offersand our own decisions about how to respond to fate, the positives and the fate nor decisions can be determined by other people in our own one can change can control our thinking and therefore our decisions in life. Passage 15. Struggle for Freedom It is not possible for me to express all that I feel of appreciation for what has been said and given to accept, for myself, with the conviction of having receivedfar beyond what I have been able to give in my can only hope that the many books which I have yet to writewill be in some measure a worthier acknowledgment than I can make , indeed, I can accept only in the same spiritin which I think this gift was originally given—that it is a prize not so much for what has been done, as for the I write in the future must, I think,be always benefited and strengthened when I remember this accept,too, for my country,the United States of are a people still young and we know that we have not yet e to the fullest of our award, given to an American, strengthens not only one,but the whole body of American writers,who are encouraged and heartened by such generous I should like to say, too, that in my countryit is important that this award has been given to a who have already so recognized your own Selma Lagerlof,and have long recognized women in other fields,cannot perhaps wholly understand what it means in many countriesthat it is a woman who stands here at this I speak not only for writers and for women, but for all Americans,for we all share in should not be truly myself if I did not, in my own wholly unofficial way,speak also of the people of China,whose life has for so many years been my life also,whose life,indeed, must always be a part of my minds of my own country and China, my foster country, are alike in many ways,but above all, alike in our mon love of today more than ever, this is true,now when China39。s whole being is engaged in the greatest of all the struggles,the struggle for have never admired China more than I do now,when I see her uniting as she has never before,against the enemy who threatens her this determination for freedom,which is in so profound a sense the essential quality of her nature,I know that she is —it is today more than ever the most precious human —Sweden and the United States—we have it country is young—but it greets you with a peculiar fellowship,you whose earth is ancient and free. Passage 16. Passing on Small Change The pharmacist handed me my prescription,apologized for the wait,and explained that his register had already asked if I would mind using the register at the front of the told him not to worry and walked up front,where one person was in line ahead of me,a little girl no more than seven, with a bottle of medicine on the clenched a little green and white striped coin purse closely to her purse reminded me of the days when, as a child,I played dressup in my grandma?s ?d march around the house in oversized clothes,drenched in costume jewelry and hats and scarves,talking “grownup talk” to anyone who would remembered the thrill one day when I gave a pretend dollar to someone,and he handed back some real coins for me to put into my special purse.“Keep the change!”he told me with a the clerk rang up the little girl?s medicine,while she shakily pulled out a coupon, a dollar bill and some watched her blush as she tried to count her money,and I could see right away that she was about a dollar a quick wink to the clerk,I slipped a dollar bill onto the counter and signaled the clerk to ring up the child scooped her uncounted change into her coin purse,grabbed her package and scurried out the I headed to my car, I felt a tug on my was the girl, looking up at me with her big brown gave me a grin, wrapped her arms around my legs for a long momentthen stretched out her little was