新编英语教程7下课文(anewenglishcourselevel7unit7-14texti)

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representative of the people he serves. He, too, believes in good intentions and is astounded and offended when they are not taken for the deed. He has never, himself, done anything for which to be 新编英语教程 7 (Unit 714 Text I) ants05 4 hated which of us has? and yet he is facing, daily and nightly, people who would gladly see him dead, and he knows it. There is no way for him not to know it: there are few other things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. He moves through Harlem, therefore, like an occupying soldier in a bitterly hostile country。 which is precisely what, and where, he is, and is the reason he walks in two’s and three’s. And he is not the only one who knows why he is always in pany: the people who are watching him know why, too. Any street meeting, sacred or secular, which he and his colleagues uneasily cover has as its explicit or implicit burden the cruelty and injustice of the white domination. And these days, of course, in terms increasingly vivid and jubilant, it speaks of the end of that domination. The white policeman, standing on a Harlem street corner, finds himself at the very center of the revolution now occurring in the world. He is not prepared for it naturally, nobody is and, what is possibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few white people are, to the anguish of the black people around him. Even if he is gifted with the merest mustard grain of imagination, something must seep in. He cannot avoid observing that some of the children, in spite of their color, remind him of children he has known and loved, perhaps even of his own children. He knows that he certainly does not want his children living this way. He can retreat from his uneasiness in only one direction: into a callousness which very shortly bees second nature. He bees more callous, the population bees more hostile, the situation grows more tense, and the police force is increased. One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. Before the dust has settled or the blood congealed, editorials, speeches, and civilrights missions are loud in the land, demanding to know what happened. What happened is that Negroes want to be treated like men. From: J. Clifford and R. DiYanni, pp. 4547 新编英语教程 7 (Unit 714 Text I) ants05 5 Unit Nine Roots of Freedom Edith Hamilton 1 Freedom39。 s challenge in the Atomic Age is a sobering are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with are we going to do with one of our most precious possessions,freedom?The world we know ,our Western world,began with something as new as the conquest of space. 2 Some 2,500 years ago Greece discovered that there was no were great civilizations,splendid empires,but no freedom ,Babylon,Nineveh, were all tyrannies,one immensely powerful man ruling over helpless Greece,in Athens, a little city in a little country,there were no helpless masses,and a time came when the Athenians were led by a great man who did not want to be obedience to the ruler was what the leaders of the empires insisted said no,there must never be absolute obedience to a man except in must be willing obedience to what is good for ,the great Athenian statesman,said:We are a free government,but we obey the laws,more especially those which protect the oppressed,and the unwritten laws which,if broken bring shame. 3 Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed,and the unwritten,which must be obeyed if free men live must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be intolerable except to hermit in the Athemans never thought that a man was free if he could do what he man was free if he was make yourself obey what you approved was were saved from looking at their lives as their own private one felt responsible for the welfare of Athens,not because it was imposed on him from the outside ,but because the city was his pride and his creed of the first government in the world was liberty for all men who could control themselves and would take responsibility for the was the conception that underlay the lofty reach of Greek genius. 4 But discovering freedom is not like discovering atomic cannot be discovered once for people do not prize it, and work for it,it will vigilance is its was a change that took place unnoticed though it was of the utmost importance,a spiritual change which perated the whole had been the Athenians39。 pride and joy to give to their they could material benefits from her never entered their had to be a plete change of attitude before they could look at the city as an employer who paid her citizens for doing her work. Now instead of men giving to the state,the state was to give to the people wanted was a government which would provide a fortable life for them,and with this as the foremost object,ideas of freedom and selfreliance and responsibility were obscure to the point of was more and more looked on as a cooperative business p ossessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share. 5 She reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one men insisted on being free from the burden of selfdependence and responsibility for the mon good,they would cease to be free. Responsibility is the price every man must pay for is to be had on no other terms. Athens,the Athens of Ancient Greece,refused responsibility,she reached the end of freedom and was never to have it again. 6 But,the excellent bees the permanent,Aristotle said. Athens lost freedom forever,but freedom was not lost forever for the world. A great American statesman,James Madison,in or near the year 1776 to:The capaci。