初二英语听力：口语测试练习材料.pdf

初二英语听力：口语测试练习材料 Advice to Youth 忠告年轻人 Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one ’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends — and I say it beseechingly, urgingly — Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don ’t, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment. 1 被告知将要在此演讲，我询问应该说什么话才合时宜。他们说 我演讲的内容应该适合年轻人——具有教育意义， 或者能提出些善意 的忠告。正好，我脑中有一些想法，一直希望能表达出来，对年轻人 进行教育 ;因为在年轻时，这些事情最能深扎心底，最为持久，最为 珍贵。首先，我要告诉你们，我年轻的朋友——我恳切地说，父母在 世时，永远遵从他们的要求， 从长远来看这是法则， 因为你不这样做， 他们也会迫使你去做。大部分父母认为，他们比你明白事理，一般来 说，相信这一点会比照自己的判断行事更奏效。 Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn ’t mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone b