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2 青春青春不应以生命时间来衡量，而应由人的心态所决定；青春不仅仅意味着玫瑰色的面颊、红润的双唇、灵活的腿脚，更意味着坚强的意志、丰富的想象力和情感的活力。

青春是人心灵深处的清泉。

青春意味着一种内在气质的优势，它表现为以勇气克服怯懦，以探险克服安逸。

比起20岁的年轻人，这种优势更经常地存在于一个60岁男子身上。

没有人仅仅经历生命的若干春秋就会衰老。

我们衰老是因为我们抛弃了自己的理想。

岁月可能会弄皱我们的皮肤，但是放弃热忱之心会使我们的灵魂起满皱纹。

忧虑、恐慌、丧失自信会令我们心情沮丧，意志泯灭。

无论60岁还是16岁，在每个人的心中，都有着对未知事物的好奇，对未来有孩童般无穷无尽的欲望和对生活乐趣的追求。

在你我的心灵中都有一座无线电台，只有它能从人群和无限时空接受到美丽、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，青春就会与你相伴。

一旦你心中的天线倒下，你的灵魂就会覆盖上玩世不恭的积雪，悲观颓废的坚冰，你已经衰老了即使你才20岁。

然而只有你心中的天线依然耸立，捕捉着乐观的信号，那么即使你将在耄耋之年辞世时，仍然有望青春依旧。

4 威尼斯威尼斯是一座海天相连的迷人的城市。

它建造在117座岛屿上。

因为威尼斯城市内没有公路，所以也就没有小汽车和公共汽车，但城内有150条运河，400座桥梁。

那些名称具有历史意义的狭窄街道是用石板铺成的，但没有人行道。

街道两旁是点缀着鲜花的阳台，圣母雕像、商店招牌和灯笼。

工匠们的店铺与宫殿毗邻共存。

广场颇多，富有魅力。

用白色大理石装饰的砖桥巍然屹立着，桥下游船不断。

每年都有成千上万来自五大洲的游客到美丽的威尼斯观光。

他们总是对威尼斯的粼粼水波和波光的魅力惊叹不已，因为它可以使自己涤尽尘埃，领略徐徐拂面的清凉的海风。

但是，由于周围水面不断上升，威尼斯得天独厚的地理位置构成一种对其自身存在的威胁。

然而，威尼斯人热爱自己的城市，他们愿意留在那儿拯救威尼斯，使之不被大海所吞噬。

如今当地政府已经采取了各种措施，还有一项保护和补救威尼斯地位的计划正在审查之中。

15 美国大学如何筹措学费为什么进几十年来欧洲大学急剧衰弱呢？如何才能重振雄风呢？第一个问题的答案在于国家的角色。

美国大学的经费来自不同的渠道，不仅仅来自政府，还来自慈善家、实业家，当然，还有学生自己。

欧洲的大学主要由国家资助。

国家资助的种种局限意味着欧洲政府在不能提供必要资金的情况下强迫大学“造就”越来越多的学生，而且往往通过微观管理方式来处理大学的种种抱怨，因此不可避免地引起质量滑坡。

然而，美国模式显示，人们是愿意为优质的高等教育付费的，因为他们知道自己将从中受益。

这就是为什么美国的高等教育费用在其国内生产总值中所占比例要比欧洲高一倍的原因。

第二个问题的答案是把大学从国家的控制下解放出来。

给予大学管理内部事务的自由：比如，如果法国大学的教授都是公务员的话，怎么能与美国对手竞争人才呢？以及还要给大学为其所提供的服务收费的自由，尤其重要的是包括收取学费的自由。

2 Nails in the FenceThere once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “Y ou have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. Y ou can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. ”3 NanjingSituated in the lower reaches of the Changjiang River with a population of more than 6 million, Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province. From the 3rd century to the 13th century, eight dynasties founded their capitals here, leaving many historical relics and scenic spots.Dr. Sun Y at-sen MausoleumThis is the resting place of Dr. Sun Y at-sen, the forerunner of the Chinese Revolution. It covers an enormous area of over 130 hectares. The Memorial Hall is situated at the top of a long staircase, with a marble statue of Dr. Sun Y at-sen in it.Nanjing Changjiang River BridgeThe Chinese people had long dreamed of building bridges over the Changjiang River. This bridge was built in 1968 by self-reliance. This bridge is 6,772 metres long including the approaches. The upper deck is for vehicles and pedestrians, while the lower deck carries railway lines.Other places to see in Nanjing include Xiaoling, the tomb of Emperor Hongwu, founder of the Ming Dynasty; the Nanjing Museum, which has a collection of relics dating back to 5,000 years ago; the Memorial Hall of the Plum Blossom Villas where the delegation of the Chinese Communist Party stayed in the 1940s; Xuanwu Lake with its five small islands and Mochou Lake with its beautiful lofus flowers.4 Hong KongHong Kong, a tiny island perched on the tip of Southern China, plays a pivotal role in an increasingly globalized economy. Given its strategic location, internationally oriented business culture and excellent communications, it has become a crossroad of world trade and the nerve center of the Asia-Pacific region. Commercial links reach out to corporations in over 170 countries and regions. Its trade with the rest of Asia has increased substantially. Its container port is now the busiest, and is undergoing further expansion. Although Hong Kong’s emergence as a world financial center came in recent 20years, offshore loans account for more than half of the total loan provided by its banks. As the “Pearl of the Orient” returns once again to China’s palm, its people see her future as brighter than ever.6 Assimilation of Chinese CultureThe Chinese culture has taken in a variety of elements from other cultures in the course of its age-long development. Therefore, it’s characterized by such qualities as profoundness, intensity and melting power. That may account for the fact that alien cultures, like those of the Jewish and other nations around China, have been gradually absorbed and even assimilated by the Chinese culture throughout the history. If foreign cultures are to take root and develop in Chinese environment, they have to adapt themselves to its culture and follow its survival mechanism in the same way that the Buddhist culture of India did in its course of spreading and development in China. Even the western Christian culture also has to learn about Chinese culture like Matteo Ricci before it sets foot finally. It is impossible for a foreign culture to survive in Chinese culture if it seeks to impose itself onto the Chinese.15 Enlightenment in EducationEducation is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states “invest” in institutions of learning to get back “interest” in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, punctuated by text-booksthose purchasable wells of wisdom what would civilization be like without its benefits?So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and births but our spiritual outlook would be different. We would lay less stress on “facts and figures” and more on a good memory, on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of “college” imaginable. Among the people whom we like to call savages all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life.。