晨讀英語美文100篇六級Three Days to See

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.44]Passage 86 Three Days to See [00:07.08]Most of us take life for granted. [00:10.03]We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. [00:18.82]The days stretch out in an endless vista, [00:22.58]so we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. [00:29.76]The same lethargy characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. [00:36.43]Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. [00:44.24]I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf [00:52.61]for a few days at some time during his early adult life. [00:57.16]Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; [01:01.75]silence would teach him the joys of sound. [01:05.16]When walking the woods, I, who cannot see, [01:09.54]find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. [01:14.34]I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. [01:18.19]I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, [01:23.37]or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. [01:26.23]In the spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud [01:32.03]—the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter’s sleep. [01:37.52]I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, [01:41.47]and discover its remarkable convolutions; [01:45.18]and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. [01:49.86]Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, [01:53.36]I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. [02:00.65]I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush thought my open finger. [02:08.10]To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is [02:13.36]more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. [02:17.33]To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, [02:23.19]the action of which streams through my finger tips. [02:27.12]If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, [02:31.37]how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. [02:35.44]Suppose you set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes [02:42.47]if you had only three more days to see. [02:45.55]If with the oncoming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, [02:53.77]how would you spend those three precious intervening days? [02:58.91]What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon? [03:02.99]I, naturally, should want most to see the things [03:08.00]which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. [03:11.95]You, too, would want to let your eyes rest on the things that have become dear to you [03:18.15]so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.

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