北师大版（2020新教材）高一英语必修第一册 Unit 3 Lesson 2 Special occasions 补充材料 (1).docx

1、 Additional listening of looking to the future with hope while saying farewell with both joy and, perhaps, nostalgia. It is a jumble of emotions for all of us and a field-day for a psychologist! Enjoy all those feelings: its hard to imagine youll have an experience quite like this again. So, there i

2、s a wonderful Yale tradition that I would like to honor right now: So, may I ask all of the families and friends here who are today to rise and recognize the outstanding and graduating members of the Class of 2019? And now, may I ask the Class of 2019 to consider all those who have supported your ar

3、rival at this milestone, and to please rise and recognize them? Thank you! In September 1974, Kingman Brewster, then president of Yale, spoke to members of the Class of 1978, seated right where you are now. He told them, “Many of us have just been on a ten-year trip of moral outrage: anti-Wallace, a

4、nti-War, and anti-Watergate. We have been so sure about what we were against that we have almost forgotten how difficult it is to know what we are for and how to achieve it.” Does this sound familiar? Today, perhaps more than ever, it is easy to know what youre against. And its far more difficult to

5、 say what youre for. What were against is going to be different for each of us. Maybe youre against border walls and Im against guns; your neighbor is against trade wars and your cousin is against abortion. For some, capitalism is the problem, while others fear the specter of socialism. By this poin

6、t, I bet all of you are against sitting in old buildings with no air conditioning, listening to a long speech! So, Ill get to the point How many of you have ever seen a Marx Brothers movie? Right, pretty good. So, although Im not mistaken for Groucho Marx as often since I shaved my moustache, II sti

7、ll dodo have a weakness for his humor. And one of Grouchos best performances, of course, is when he plays a college president. (It is a funny role!) So, in the opening scene of the movie Horse Feathers, Groucho, the new president of Huxley College, is told that the trustees have “a few suggestions”

8、for him. Then he breaks into this song: “I dont know what they have to say Additional listening violence around the world and in our own backyards; the fraying of the social fabric. “The falcon cannot hear the falconer,” and we wonder if the center can hold. I understand the impulse toward negativit

9、y. Like many of you, I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the challenges we face, by the injustices that call out for our condemnation. Yet it is precisely because our challenges are so great that outrage is not enough. Pointing out what is wrong is merely the beginning, not the end, of our work. Additio

10、nal listening made art and music; excelled in athletics; launched companies; and served your neighbors and the world. You have created a vibrant, diverse, and exciting community. Take these experiences with you and draw on them when you need encouragement. Remember a class that surprised you; a conv

11、ersation that inspired you; a professor who believed in you. And take care to avoid what Toni Morrison calls “second-rate goals and secondhand ideas.” “Our past is bleak. Our future dim,” Morrison writes. “But if we see the world as one long brutal game, then we bump into another mystery, the myster

12、y of beauty, of light, of the canary that sings on our skulls.” Being for something is a search for those mysteries, for that light: it is an act of radical optimism, a belief that a more perfect world is within reach and that we can help build it. What are you for? You may well turn that question b

13、ack to me. What are you for, Peter Salovey? I am for the transformative power of a liberal education one that asks you to think broadly, question everything, and embrace the joy of learning. I am for the American Dream in all its rich promise the idea that opportunities are shared widely and that ac

14、cess to education is within reach for the many, not the few. I am for the robust and free exchange of ideas, as essential to the mission of a great university as it is to the health of our democracy. Additional listening we did do not shut them out or silence them; a world where showing empathy and

15、understanding is considered the true hallmark of success, of a life well-lived. That is what I am for. Yales mission says, in part, that we are “committed to improving the world today and for future generations.” That commitment does not end at graduation. Soon you will leave Yale and, as Robert Pen

16、n Warren, who studied and taught at Yale, wrote, “You will go into the convulsion of the world, out of history and into history.” Indeed, youll go into history and make history. Looking around me today, I think of the generations of Yale graduates who have come before you. Individuals who have been

17、for something. There are many names we know and others that would be less familiar presidents and world leaders, artists and business executives, scholars and scientists. Like them, I know you will heed the call to leadership and service and leave your mark on every realm of human endeavor. That is

18、Yales mission that is what Yale is for. As members of the Yale community, what do we believe? We believe that facts and expertise, applied with creativity and wisdom, can transform the world. We believe that education and research save lives and make life more meaningful. We believe that diversity o

19、f thought and diversity indeed are essential to human progress. We believe, most of all, in the boundless potential of human ingenuity; that together, we can solve great challenges and bring light and truth to a world in great need of it. On Monday, tomorrow, during your commencement ceremonies, I w

20、ill confer on you all the “rights and responsibilities” of a Yale degree. Yours is a great responsibility. You will have to know what you are for. What are you for? “Surely in the light of history,” Eleanor Roosevelt said, “it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not t

21、o try.” Yale has prepared you, as a scholar and a human being, to try; to face challenges with courage and determination. And I trust you are leaving Yale with a sense of your own responsibilities to one another, to the planet, and to our shared future. Additional listening there are no words to was

22、te: As a young Bob Dylan sang in 1965, “He not busy being born is busy dying.” We must give life to new ideas, imagine new ways of being in the world, new answers to the problems that vex us and our neighbors. Now is the time. Members of the Class of 2019, please rise: We are delighted to salute you

23、r accomplishments, and we are proud of your achievements. Remember to give thanks for all that has brought you to this day. And go forth from this place with grateful hearts, paying back the gifts you have received here by using your minds, your voices, and your hands to imagine and create the new worlds you wish to see. What are you for? Congratulations, Class of 2019! Thank you. Thank you.