21世纪大学英语读写教程第四册Reading-Aloud

life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read , a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was,” What’s your alma matter?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man ...

我经常思考阅读为我打开了的新远景，我当时在狱中就知道，阅读已永远改变了我的人生历程。正如今天我明白，阅读能力唤醒了在我内心潜伏已久的对于活跃思想得渴望。我当然不是在追求任何学位，因为学位只是大学附于学生一种地位象征的方式。我通过自学所受到的教育使我每读到一本新书就更加意识到正在折磨美国黑人的聋、哑、盲。不久前，一位英国作家从伦敦打来电话问了我几个问题，其中之一是，“你的母校是哪？”我告诉他：“是书。”在任何一个空闲的 15 分钟里，你都会发现我在学习一些我觉得可能有助于黑人的东西。

Unit 6

EQ is not the opposite of IQ. Some people are blessed with a lot of both, some with little of either. What researchers have been trying to understand is how they complement each other, how one's ability to handle stress, for instance, affects the ability to concentrate and put intelligence to use. Among the ingredients for success, researchers now generally agree that IQ counts for about 20%, the rest depends on everything from class to luck to the neural pathways that have developed in the brain over millions of years of human evolution.

情商不是智商的对立面。一些人有幸两者都拥有很多，一些人则每一样都拥有很少。研究者们一直试图理解的是它们如何互补；比如，一个人对付压力的能力如何影响其集中思想和发挥才智的能力。研究者

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们大多同意，在成功的要素中智商约占 20；其余则取决于多种因素，从所属的阶级到运气到在人类进化的几百万年中已在大脑中形成的神经通道。

Unit 7

As a child, I identified so strongly with my mother that I thought my father was just a long-term house guest with spanking privileges. She and I are bookish, introverted worriers. My father is an optimist who has never had a sleepless night in his life.

Like most fathers and sons, we fought. But there was no cooling-off period between rounds. It was a cold war lasting from the onset of my adolescence until I went off to college in 1973.I hated him. He was a former navy fighter pilot with an Irish temper and a belief that all the problems of the world-including an overprotected son who never saw anything through to completion-could be cured by the application of more discipline.

小时侯，我和母亲特别亲，而认为父亲只是一个长期住在我家并享有打孩子屁股特权的客人。母亲和我爱读书，性格内向，多愁善感。父亲则很乐观，一生中从来没有睡不着觉的时候。 像大多数父子一样，我们常斗气。但在各个回合之间却没有休战期。这是一场冷战，从我的青春期开始一直持续到 1973 年我离家去上大学。我恨他。他以前是一名海军战斗机驾驶员，脾气火暴，他坚信世界上所有的问题----包括宠爱有加、做事一向虎头蛇尾的儿子----都能通过严隶法纪来解决。

Unit 8

Now it must be obvious what all has to do with you. Eventually like the rest of us you must be on one side or the other. You must be an Athenian or a Visigoth. Of course it is much harder to be an Athenian for you must learn how to be one you must work at being one whereas we are all in a way natural-both Visigoths. That is why there are so many more Visigoths than Athenians. And I must tell you that you do not become an Athenian merely by attending school or accumulating degrees. My father-in-law was one of the most committed

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Athenians I have ever known and he spent his entire adult life as a dress cutter on Seventh Avenue in New York City. On the other hand I have known physicians lawyers and engineers who are Visigoths of unmistakable persuasion. And I must also tell you, as much in sorrow as in shame, that at some of our great universities perhaps even this one there are professors of whom we may fairly say they are closet Visigoths. And yet, you must not doubt for a moment that a school after all is essentially an Athenian idea. There is a direct link between the cultural achievements of Athens and what the faculty of this university is all about. I have no difficulty imagining that Plato Aristotle or Democritus would be quite at home in our classrooms. A Visigoth would merely scrawl obscenities on the wall.

现在，所有这一切与你的关系一定很清楚了。你终将同其他人一样，必须站在一方或另一方。你必定要么是雅典人要么是西哥特人。当然，成为名雅典人要难得多，因为你必须学习如何成为雅典人，你必须要付出努力，而从某种意义上说我们天生都是西哥特人。这就是为什么西哥特人比雅典人要多得多的原因。我还必须告诉你，仅仅通过上学或者拿到几个学位是不会成为雅典人的。我的岳父是我所知道的最坚定的雅典人之一，他成年之后一直是纽约第七大街上的一名裁缝。相反，我认识的一些医生、律师和工程师却是十足的西哥特人。我还必须既痛心又惭愧地告诉你，在我们一些名牌大学，也许甚至就在这一所，有一些教授，我们可以公正地说，是些隐蔽的西哥特人。然而，你决不可对学校产生怀疑，学校的本质毕竟体现了一种雅典人的观念。雅典的文化成就和这所大学的教员所从事的工作之间有着直接的联系。不难想象，在我们的教室里，柏拉图、亚里士多德或者德谟克利特会感到很自在。西哥特人将只会在墙壁上涂写一些淫秽的话。

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