“认识自我” 纪伯伦一个雨夜，赛艾姆坐在书房的书架前，开始翻阅起旧书。他叼着支土耳其大雪茄，厚厚的嘴唇不时喷涌出一阵烟雾。柏拉图记录的他的老师苏格拉底关于“认识自我”的一段对话引起了赛艾姆的注意……赛艾姆掩卷深思，心中油然漾起一种对东西方哲人圣贤敬佩的感情。“认识你自己。”他嘟囔着苏格拉底这句名言，猛地从座椅上站了起来，展开双臂大声叹道，“对!我必须认识自我，洞察自己那秘密的心灵，这样我就抛脱了一切疑惧和不安，从我物质的人中找出我精神的人，从我血与肉的具体存在中找出我的抽象实质，这就是生命赋予我的至高无上的神圣使命!”赛艾姆像害了场热病，眼中闪烁着酷爱“认识自我”的狂热光芒。他踱到邻屋，像座塑像一样伫立在穿衣镜前，凝视着镜子里鬼一般可怕的自我，并默默地估量着自己的头形、面庞、躯干和四肢。赛艾姆的这种塑像神态持续了半小时，空灵缥缈的“认识自我”，仿佛给他灌注了一套足以揭示自我灵魂秘密的奇异、升华了的思想，并使他心里充满了理性之光。他平静地启动双唇，自言自语地说：“嗯!从身材上看，我是矮小的，但拿破仑、维克多·雨果两位不也是这般吗我的前额不宽，天庭欠圆，可苏格拉底和斯宾诺莎也是如此；我承认我是秃顶，这并不寒碜，因为有大名鼎鼎的莎士比亚与我为伴；我的鹰鼻弯长，如同伏尔泰和乔治·华盛顿的一样；我的双眼凹陷，使徒保罗和哲人尼采亦是这般；我那肥厚嘴唇足以同路易十四媲美，而我那粗胖的脖子堪与汉尼拔和马克·安东尼齐肩。“不错，我的身体是有缺陷，但要注意，这是伟大的思想家们的共同特点。更奇怪的是，我与巴尔扎克一样，阅读写作时，咖啡壶一定要放在身旁；我同托尔斯泰一样，愿意与粗俗的民众交际攀谈；有时我三四天不洗手脸，贝多芬、惠特曼亦有这一习惯；我的嗜酒如命，足令马娄和诺亚自愧弗如；我的饕餮般暴食暴饮使巴夏酋长和亚历山大王也要大出冷汗。”又沉默了片刻，赛艾姆用肮脏的指尖点了点脑门，继续发言：“这就是我!这就是我的实在。我拥有迄今为止人类历史上的伟人们的种种品质。一位拥有这么多伟大品质的青年是一定能干一番惊天动地的事业的。“睿智的实质是认识自我。伟人们把宇宙的这一伟大思想根植于我心灵深处，并激励我开始去干伟大的工作。从诺亚到苏格拉底，从薄伽丘到雪莱，我伴随着伟人们一起渡过了历史的风风雨雨。我不知道我会以什么样的伟大行动开始，不过一个兼备在白昼的劳作和夜晚的幻梦中所形成的神秘自我和真正本性的人，无疑是可以开创伟业的……是的，我已经认识了自己，而神灵也已洞鉴了我。啊!我的灵魂万岁!自我万岁!愿天长地久，诸事如愿!”赛艾姆在屋里踱来踱去，他那丑陋的脸上荡漾着欢乐的光泽，嘴里不时发出一阵像猫啃骨头时的欢快叫声。他反复吟哦着阿比·阿拉的一段诗文：尽管我是这个时代的晚辈，创业祖先的未竞之业，总会历史地压在我的肩背。过了一会儿，我们的这位赛艾姆穿着他那肮脏的衣服倒卧在乱七八糟的床上，进入了鼾声如雷的梦乡。

请扼要评价赛艾姆这一人物形象。

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Cities of Tomorrow

Middle school students combine science and imagination as they celebrate National Engineers

Week in a Future City Competition．

In the African city of Mwinda，floating farms are quite common．The city’s residents zip around in hydrogen-powered hover（盘旋的）vehicles，and renewable energy resources provide the city’s power．That’s how Jake Bowers，12，Emily Ponti，14，and Krisha Sherburne，12，imagined their future city．

The students，who attend St．Thomas More School in Baton Rouge，Louisiana，took first place

for their design last week in the 2007 National Engineer Week Future City Competition held in

Washington，D．C．The students won a trip to the U．S Space Camp in Huntsville，Alabam．

Kids from 35 middle schools across the country made it to Washington．They had teamed up

with teachers and volunteer engineer mentors（顾问，导师）to develop cities．Each team began by

creating a fictional city on SimCity 3000，a computer game that allows players to construct towns．

The students then built a tabletop model of the city，wrote an essay and presented their creation to a

panel（专门小组） of judges．This year’s theme asked students to design fuel cell powered

communities．Fuel cell technology works by using hydrogen and oxygen to produce power．The

process is environmentally friendly．

Organizers hope the competition provides a fun and educational way to spark young people’s

interest in engineering．“As the number of graduates in engineering（decreases），it’s ever more

important to encourage students to build these skills at an early age，”says John Hofmeister，

President of Shell Oill Company．Shell is a sponsor of the annual Future City contest．Judging by

this year’s competition，plenty of kids are getting the message．Some 30，000 students from more

than 1，000 schools participated in the 2006 －2007 Future City Competition．

64．What is not imagined in the three teenagers’ mind for their future city？

A．Hydrogen-powered hover vehicles．

B．The city’s power provided by renewable energy resources．

C．Floating farms．

D．Oxygen-powered floating factories．

65．Which statement is True according to the passage？

A．St．Thomas More School in Baton Rouge is in Alabama．

B．The 2007 National Engineer Week Future City Competition was held in Lounisiana．

C．The students who took first place for their design won a trip to U．S．Space Camp in

Huntsville．

D．The U．S Space Camp lies in Washington，D，C．．

66．Kids from 35 middle schools_________．

A．could use computers to help them construct their future cities

B．created a real city on Simcity 3000

C．teamed up on their own to develop cities

D．built a tabletop model of the city and presented it to their teachers for judgment

67．It can be inferred that the 2006 －07 Future City Competition_________．

A．will spark young people’s interest in living in Space Camp

B．will decrease the number of graduates in engineering

C．will encourage college students to build engineering skills after their graduation

D．was participated in by 30 students on average in each school