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He was a man of fifty, and some, seeing that he had gone both bald and grey, though he looked older. But the first physical impression was deceptive. He was tall and thick about the body, with something of a paunch, but he was also small-boned, active, light on his feet. In the same way, his head was massive, his forehead high and broad between the fringes of fair hair; but no one’s face changed its expression quicker, and his smile was brilliant. Behind the thick lenses, his eyes were small and intensely bright, the eyes of a young and lively man. At a first glance, people might think he looked a senator. It didn’t take them long to discover how mercurial he was. His temper was as quick as his smile; in everything he did his nerves seemed on the surface. In fact, people forgot all about the senator and began to complain that sympathy and emotion flowed too easily. Many of them disliked his love of display. Yet they were affected by the depth of his feeling. Nearly everyone recognized that, though it took some insight to perceive that he was not only a man of deep feeling, but also one of passionate pride.Passage 2Love Your Life热爱生活Henry David Thoreau/享利.大卫.梭罗However mean your life is, meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. Passage 3We had brought all our food with us and sat upon the shore in the shadow of a piece of the cliff. A row of heavy clouds lay along the horizon almost unchangeable, with their sumit-lines and the parts of the mass just below them steeped in sunlight. The level opaline water differed only from a floor by a scarcely perceptible heaving motion, which broke into the faintest of ripples at our feet. O still was the great ocean, so quietly did everything lie in it, that the wavelets which licked the beach were as pure and bright as if they were a part of the mid-ocean depths. About a mile from us, at one o’clock, a long row of porpises appeared, showing themselves in graceful curves for half-an –hour or so, till they went out farther to sea off Fairlight Some fishingboats were becalmed just in front of us. Their shadows slept, or almost slept, upon the water, a gentle quivering along showing that it was not complete sleep, or if sleep, that it was sleep with dreams.It was a day as fresh as grass growing up and clouds going over and butterflies coming down can make it. It was a day compounded from silences of bee and flower ad ocean and land, which were not silences at all, but motions, stirs, flutters, risings, fallings, each in its own time and matchless rhythm. The land did not move, but moved. The sea was not still, yet was still. Paradox flowed into paradox, stillness mixed with stillness, sound with sound. The flowers vibrated and the bees fell in separate and small showers of golden rain on the clover. The seas of hill and the seas of ocean were divided, each from the other’s motion, by a railroad track, empty, compounded of rust and iron marrow track on which quite obviously, no train had run in many years. Thirty miles north it swirled on away to further mists of distance, thirty miles south it tunneled islands of cloud-shadow that changed their continental positions on the sides of far mountains as you watch. Passage 5The Internet Superhighway ---ClareThe Internet has come a long way from its origins as a research network. Today，users routinely listen to radiobroadcast across the net，download short videos from the World Wide Web and access information from thousands of government and private databases．But the fortuitous success and growth of the Internet has severely strained the functional limits of the Internet protocol as well as the underlying router networks．Of even greater concern are the new applications in tire offing which require far more facility than the network now provides. Internet commerce, gigabyte file transfer, live video transmission, secured email/data and voice/video conferencing are just a few of the applications that Internet service providers are coming out with. The smorgasbord promises to choke an already overloaded network. Simply adding bandwidth to the Internet backbones is not an answer. It will only raise the cost of admission for everyone.Fortunately，there is a way to clear up the Internet current bandwidth bottleneck while providing a rich platform for tomorrow's services．The solution is ATM．To see how ATM can facilitate the evolution of the Internet，we will look at the challenges the Internet currently faces and consider how ATM can play a role in overcoming them.Before users start conducting business on the Internet and sending mission critical data across it，the network's reliability will have to march that of telephone circuits. The current "best efforts" approach yields an environment which is too unstable for mission critical data. Random congestion on router backbones can cause IP packet discards whenever the volume of traffic exceeds the bandwidth capacity a -- phenomenon experts facetiously refer to as"pump and pray networking".The ability of ATM networks to separate mission critical traffic from Internet noise via virtual circuit is the first step in identifying non-discardable traffic as it transits the network．The second step is using ATM's Available Bit Rate service class-a system in which network switches continuously update end stations oil the available network bandwidth ABR thereby allows end device to maximize the usage of network resources without the risk of congestion．Business users of the Internet are assured safe passage of their data．Because these virtual circuits are able to match the reliability of leased lines，service providers are able to charge a premium for such facilities，while keeping regular access Inexpensive．Passage 6Since the 1960s, many talented white musicians have chosen blues music as their primary vehicle of expression - using as their models the great black players of the past and present.The battle rages.Purists insist that blues is an African-American cultural expression, inaccessible in essence to the white practitioner. The opposition points to the universal spectrum of feelings - from sadness to joy - that blues expresses.What remains indisputable is the historical fact that the blues was developed entirely by the Black American, who over the years incorporated African elements of melody, rhythm, and phrasing with the European inventions of diatonic harmony and form. Both audience and player alike were predominantly Black for that gestation period. The modern White player came later - to "discover" the authentic music and recast it. Some incorporated it with rock & roll, pop, folk, and country music, while others faithfully covered gems of the classic blues repertory. Regardless of the color or nationality of the players who have been involved, it is universally acknowledged that blues is Black music.It is a myth that the Black man has abandoned blues music in favor of the more modern genres of R&B, soul, and rap. Although the blues does not occupy the place in Black culture that it once did, Black artists continue to practice the music both within their own culture and in larger venues all over the world. Although it is a fact that the rise of the White player in blues has created a new worldwide audience for the music, many feel that he has again - as in jazz and rock & roll - garnered far more than his fair share of the profit and the glory in the process. Some of these new players claim equal "ownership" of the music, and there is no denying that among their ranks are many excellent musicians of diverse cultures who have become devoted students and advocates of the authentic African-American styles. It must be stressed, however, that virtually all of the significant and original contributions to the stylistic genesis of this music have been and are being accomplished by the Black player.To develop the fullest appreciation of this genre, the listener is encouraged to first fully explore and enjoy the works of the African-American blues musician.9. 黛玉吐真情（《红楼梦》小说节选之二）曹雪芹著第三十四回情中情因情感妹妹错里错以错劝哥哥这里宝玉昏昏默默，只见蒋玉菡走了进来，诉说忠顺府拿他之事；又见金钏儿进来哭说为他投井之情。