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(1)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 s
(1)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 s
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(1)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—
(2)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.
(3)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 by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
(4)Go to bed early, get up early—this is wise. Some authorities say get up with the sun: some say get up with one thing, others with another. But a lark is really the best thing to get up with. It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark: and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time—it’s no trick at all.
(5)Now as to the matter of lying, you want to be very careful about lying: otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be in the eyes to the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill finished lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young out not to lie at all. That of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary: still while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to detail—these are requirements: these in time, will make the student perfect: upon these only, may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence. Think what tedious years of study, thought, practice, experience, went to the equipment of that peerless old master who was able to impose upon the whole world the lofty and sounding maxim that "Truth is mighty and will prevail"—the most majestic compound fracture of fact which any of woman born has yet achieved. For the history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sewn thick with evidences that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie well told is immortal. There is in Boston a monument of the man who discovered anesthesia: many people are aware, in these latter days, that that man didn’t discover it at all, but stole the discovery from another man. Is this truth mighty, and will it prevail? Ah no, my hearers, the monument is made of hardy material, but the he it tells will outlast it a million years. An awkward, feeble, leaky he is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid: such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an average truth. Why, you might as well tell the truth at once and be done with it. A feeble, stupid, preposterous lie will not live two years—except it be a slander upon somebody. It is indestructible, then of course, but that is no merit of yours. A final word: begin your practice of this gracious and beautiful art early—begin now. If I had begun earlier, I could have learned how.
(6)There are many sorts of books: but good ones are the sort for the young to read. Remember that. They are a great, an inestimable, and unspeakable means of improvement. Therefore be careful in your selection, my young friends: be very careful: confine yourselves exclusively to Robertson’s Sermons, Baxter’s Saint’s Rest, The Innocents Abroad, and works of that kind.
(7)But I have said enough. I hope you will treasure up the instructions which I have given you, and make them a guide to your feet and a light to your understanding. Build your character thoughtfully and painstakingly upon these precepts, and by and by, when you have got it built, you will be surprised and gratified to see how nicely and sharply it resembles everybody else’s.
The sentence "A final word: begin your practice of this gracious and beautiful art early—begin now. " in Para. 5 is used as a(n)______.
选项
A、analogy
B、euphemism
C、hyperbole
D、irony
答案
D
解析
语义题。根据题干定位至第五段。作者在该段表达的对于说谎的态度,较为曲折难解,他首先指出了谎言可能带来的危害,随后又说谎言也不可能完全避免,因为真理容易受到攻击和埋没,而谎言倒是容易历久不衰,然而,他引用的波士顿纪念碑的事例,又恰恰说明谎言无论怎么掩饰,终究还是会被揭穿,而本段末尾提到的毁谤他人的谎言,其实是他最为不齿的行为,所以,他才说自己如果早学的话,可能现在也就学会了,可见前一句建议年轻人早点学习毁谤他人,这是作者的反语,故[D]为答案,作者并没有将此事跟其他事件进行比较,因此排除[A]“类比”;而[B]“委婉语”指的是用隐晦和婉转的方式表达自己的意思,但并不是用相反的语言表达,故排除;[C]“夸张”也是一种正向的表达,而不是从反面表达,故排除。
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