① No one of us can cut ourselves off from the body of the community to which we belong.
② We are indirectly dependent upon the labour of others for all the necessities and comforts of our lives.
③ It should not be possible for us to enjoy them without giving something in return.
2番
① Education must not be limited to our youth but must be a continuing process through our entire lives,
② , for it is only through knowledge that we ,as a nation, can cope with the dangers that threaten our society.
3番
① If you can read rapidly and with good understanding, you will probably find it easy to remember a good deal of what you do read.
② On the other hand, if you find reading a difficult and unpleasant job, even those things that you manage to learn by reading are likely to slip from your memory within a very short time.
③ In other words, the harder and more disagreeable reading is, the less it pays
4番
① The failure of the average man is due, not to lack of ability, but to lack of ability to concentrate, to expend all his energy in the cultivation of one marked talent, instead of scattering his efforts on four or five possibilities.
5番
① In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did.
② I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
6番
① The fact that television frequently limits communication within families is already well known;
② these new developments will further lead people to live within themselves and not reach out to other people.
③ Perhaps technology itself is creating individuals who are only concerned with their own interests.
④ Machines should not be allowed to ruin our sense of social responsibility.
⑤ Whether we admit it or not, we are all here together, and share a common fate.
7番
① One lesson that life teaches as we grow older is that both our fears and our hopes are mostly illusions and are not to be taken too seriously.
② Time after time we learn that that which we fear most in life never happens, or never happens exactly as we had dreaded.
③ In addition, we have undreamed-of strength to bear the difficulty.
8番
① No matter where you go, no matter who your ancestors were, what school or college you have attended, or who helps you, your best opportunity is in yourself.
② The help you get from others is something outside of you, while it is what you are, what you do yourself that counts.
9番
① When you have lived as long as I have, you will discover, I hope, that it is not what one sees on the outside, so much as what is in the inside of a man, which makes him happy and contended, or the contrary.
10番
① If you find yourself bored by a book that well- informed people regard as important and readable, be honest with yourself and confess that probably the difficulty is not in the book but in you.
② Often a book which now seems dull or difficult will prove easy to grasp and fascinating to read when you are more mature intellectually.
