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23. Inaugural Address 知识点测评28：词汇：generosity The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe – the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. 现在的世界已经大不一样了。人类的手中掌握着既能消灭各种形式的人类贫困，又能毁灭各种形式的人类生命的力量。然而，我们的先辈为之奋斗的革命信念即：人的权利不是来自国家的慷慨，而是来自上帝的恩赐却仍然在全球引起争议。 知识点测评28：词汇：generosity 28.（单选题）His act of great ( )is admired by everyone. A. generate B. generation C. generous D. generosity 正确答案：D 解析：这里考查generosity以及其变形词汇的辨析和应用，根据句意generosity 在这里用作不可数名词“慷慨，大方”这层意思和用法。 23. Inaugural Address We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage – and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. 我们今天不敢忘记，我们是那第一次革命的继承人。让我们把这句话—一火炬已经传给了美国的新一代—从此时此地传扬出去，让朋友和敌人都能听到。他们在本世纪出生，经受战争的磨炼，在艰苦的和平时期经受了考验，对我们的悠久传统感到自豪，不愿意看到或者允许我国向来坚持的、今天仍然在国内外坚持的人权日渐消亡。 23. Inaugural Address Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 23. Inaugural Address But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course – both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand