到目前为止,我们学了元音，辅音，双元音和辅音连缀的发音，还学了单词，短语和句子朗读时的重音重读，音的同化，失去爆破，连读，停顿和节奏等现象，最后介绍了语调在各种句中的使用。在朗读下列阅读材料时，我们应将学过的那些技能融为一体，根据不同的体裁和需要进行融会贯通的综合操练更要按照小说、散文、诗歌、演讲、致辞、电影配音、新闻播报等不同文体及其内容的要求，运用正确的语气和情感进行朗读，做到“以情带声”，“以声传情”。
12.1 致 辞
材料1～5是不同类型的致辞，朗读者应根据其不同内容的需要，采用不同的语气和情绪，或充满感激，或情真意切，或热情洋溢，让观(听)众感受到你的真情实意。
1. Words can't express how grateful I am to you all. I am truly honored by the kindness and attention you have shown me today.
2. So instead of concluding my speech with the customary “Good-bye”, allow me to say: “Good luck and much happiness!”
3. It is my great pleasure to welcome this evening Mr. Allen, who has just arrived from America and will be spending several weeks in Beijing
4. On behalf of everyone gathered here tonight, I would like to say how happy we are to see you again, Mr. White.
5. It is my special pleasure to welcome our new staff member, Mr. Tony White, who has come here from Australia. Mr. White will be working mostly in our day-time classes, and he has also consented to take some of our evening classes. He will be with us here for at least two years. One of the goals of our school, in addition to teaching English, is to promote understanding and cooperation between the young people of our two countries. By having dedicated people like Mr. White, who are willing to sacrifice the comfort of their friends in their own country to come to a strange and unknown country, we feel we are very lucky and that our goals will be all the more easily realized. Mr. White, the other faculty members and the rest of the staff of the school join with me in extending to you our sincerest welcome. We are indeed happy to have you here, and we wish you all the best during the time that you are with us. Thank you.
注释:
1) consent: 同意
2) dedicated: 富有献身精神的
12.2 散 文
散文往往通过某些生活片段、社会局部或细小、平凡的事与物、人与情来表现作者的思想感情及其人生体验。散文的表达，从总体上讲应细腻、自然、内在、真切。因此，在朗读散文时，要注意细腻表达：一是感觉上的具体细腻；二是语言用声的细腻，即除了要注意各种感官和情感的细微体验外，语言用声也不宜太强、太高、太实。散文表达以语缓气舒为主，语言舒展，声音轻柔，气息绵长，用声松弛，从而将内心情感和所描绘的景色、叙述的事情表现得从容，淋漓尽致。
6. Fifty years ago when I was a small child, my father arranged for me to spend two summer vacations at a ranch in South Dakota. He thought it would be good for me, and he was right. It taught me a great deal about the importance of independence. The people who lived there were practically self-sufficient. They raised sheep for wool, wove it into fabric, and built their cabin from logs. The place was so isolated that the owner's daughter, who must have been in her early twenties, said that she had never been away from home or seen a train.
注释:
ranch : 大牧场
self-sufficient: 自给自足的
fabric: 织物;布
7. Christmas is really a wonderful time of the year, and there is something in this holiday to appeal to everybody. For myself, I love the pretty decorations that can be seen everywhere. See how wonderful this room looks with all the bright reds and greens everywhere. I know of a fact that my friend over there, Mr. Tom. appreciates Christmas food the most, especially the roast turkey that can be had during the season. And Miss Jane over there likes Christmas because of all the presents she gets from her boy friends.
注释：
appeal to：引起…的兴趣
decoration:装饰物
12.3 小 说
小说的演播有较高的难度，因为它既需要有较高的叙述能力，又需要有丰富的人物语言造型本领，使人听起来既清楚又生动。要演播好一部小说，首先要正确理解作品，把握好它的基调；其次要抓住作品的风格，并以其特有的韵味形成基本语气，融入到演播基调中，体现在声音形式上，形成独特的韵味和恰切的演播样式，完美地进行表达；再次要驾驭叙述语言和表现人物语言。
8. The Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
注释:
1) 本篇选自于查尔斯·狄更斯的名著《双城记》。
2) epoch: 时代; 时期
3) incredulity:不轻信; 怀疑
4) superlative:最好的; 最高的
9. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary. She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralized each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions. She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind – or rather that cold accretion called the world; which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.
12.4 诗 歌
诗歌是一种具有韵律，句子分行排列，词语高度精练，能创造主、客观和统一意境的独特的文学体裁，具有集括性、跳跃性和音乐性的特征。诗歌的音乐性表现在它的节奏和韵律上。诗歌的感情起伏强烈，有韵律和节奏，音调和谐动听，形成律动的美感，从而唤起听众相应的情绪，引起共鸣。因此，诗歌朗诵对技巧的要求非常高，技巧的运用也非常丰富。在朗诵诗歌时，我们应充分理解消化诗歌所要表达的内涵，根据诗的意境和情感运动情况，注意调整语流速度和声音抑扬，把作者的真情实感表达得淋漓尽致。
10. To His Love
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd:
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
11. The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler，
long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other，as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that，the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh，I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
12. To Water Song ·Mid-Autumn
Su Shi
‘Bright moon, when wast thou made?'
Holding my cup, I ask of the blue sky.
I know not in Heaven's palaces.
What year it is this night.
I long to ride the wind and return;
Yet fear that marble towers and jade houses,
So high, are over-cold.
I rise and dance and sport with lipid shades;
Better far to be among mankind.
Around the vermilion chamber,
Down in the silken windows,
She shines on the sleepless,
Surely with no ill-will.
Why then is the time of parting always at full moon?
Man has grief and joy, parting and reunion;
The moon has foul weather and fair,
waxing and waning. In this since ever there has been no perfection.
All I can wish is that we may have long life,
That a thousand miles apart we may share her beauty.
(Translated by Robert Kotewall)
水调歌头·中秋
苏轼
明月几时有？ 把酒问青天。不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？ 我欲乘风归去，又恐琼楼玉宇，高处不胜寒。起舞弄清影，何似在人间。
转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠。不应有恨，何事长向别时圆？ 人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。但愿人长久，千里共婵娟！
13. Sonnet from the Portuguese(XIV)
Elizabeth Barret Browning
If you must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
‘I love her for her smile…her look…her way
Of speaking gently, …for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day' --
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee, --and love, so wrough,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, --
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
12.5 演 说
演说是演说者在特定的时境内，依据意美以感心的内部语言，运用音美以感耳的有声语言，结合行美以感目的态势语言，借助物美以感人的道具语言，四者溶为一炉，浑然一体，面向听众，传递信息，进行宣传鼓动，让其知，令其信，动其情，促其行的一种传播工具和交际工具。演说的内容必须立场正确，内容翔实，事例精当，词句精练；演说者要做好充分的登台演讲的心理准备，控制怯场心理，在演说的时候尊重观众，仪表大方，注意用好话筒，做到语音悦耳，语速适中，节奏鲜明，语调动听，把感情充分地表达出来。
14. Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
15. Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a large sense, we cannot dedicate— we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take Increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people , shall not perish from the earth.
16. Address to the Young Democratic Club
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I, for one, do not believe that the era of the pioneer is at an end; I only believe that the area for pioneering has changed. The period of geographical pioneering is largely finished. But, my friends, the period of social pioneering is only at its beginning. And make no mistake about it – the same qualities of heroism and faith and vision that were required to bring the forces of Nature into subjection will be required – in even greater measure – to bring under proper control the forces of modern society.
You ought to thank God tonight if, regardless of your years, you are young enough in spirit to dream dreams and see visions – dreams and visions about a greater and finer America that is to be; if you are young enough in spirit to believe that poverty can be greatly lessened; that the disgrace of involuntary unemployment can be wiped out; that class hatreds can be done away with; that peace at home and peace abroad can be maintained; and that one day a generation may possess this land, blessed beyond anything we now know, blessed with these things – material and spiritual – that make man's life abundant. If that is the fashion of your dreaming then I say:“ Hold fast to you dream. America needs it.”
17. Inaugural Address
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it.
I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.And so, my fellow American: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
18. I have a dream
Martin Luther King
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I have a dream today.
I have a dream that the state of Alabama will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and Mountain shall be made low, the rough place will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing we will be free one day.
19. Remarks in Beijing University
Bill Clinton
The new century is upon us, all our sights are turned for the future. Now your country has known more millennia than the United States has known centuries. Today, however, China is as young as any nation on earth. This new century can be the dawn of a new China. You can be proud of your ancient greatness, proud of what you are doing, prouder still of the tomorrows to come. It can be a time when the world again looks to China for the vigor of its culture, the freshness of its thinking, the elevation of human dignity that is apparent in its works. It can be a time when the oldest of nations helps to make a new world. The United States wants to work with you to make that time a reality. Thank you very much.
20. A Future of Excellence and Prosperity for All
Tung Chee-hwa
Every society has to have its own values to provide a common purpose and a sense of unity. Most of the people of Hong Kong are Chinese, some are not. For a long time, Hong Kong has embraced the Eastern and Western cultures. We will continue to encourage diversity in our society, but we must also reaffirm and respect the fine traditional Chinese values, including filial piety, love for the family, modesty and integrity, and the desire for continuous improvement. We value plurality, but discourage open confrontation; we strive for liberty, but not at the expense of the rule of law; we respect minority views, but are mindful of wider interests; we protect individual rights, but also shoulder collective responsibilities. I hope these values will provide the foundation for unity in our society.
21. A Speech After America Was Under Attack By Terrorists
George W. Bush
"Good evening:
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors.
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America resolve.
America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.
And no one will keep that light from shining.
22. After it enters the WTO, China will actively participate in international competition and global division of work on a wider scope. This will help develop China's advantageous industries, enhance China's international competitiveness, and provide favorable conditions for accelerating China's economic restructuring. Of course, China's WTO entry will also bring about buffets to some trades and enterprises in varying degrees. However, China has already accumulated a fairly solid material foundation and experiences to cope with market competition over the past 20-odd yeas of reform and opening-up, and has constantly increased its international competitiveness and ability to resist risks. China is confident that it can deal with all challenges.
12.6 影视台词或配音
影视台词和配音是许多文艺爱好者都非常喜欢的一种艺术创作。如果说影视编剧是一度创作，演员的表演是二度创作的话，那么台词和配音就是三度创作。读台词和配音时，其声音的运用、表演、台词的处理以及口气，甚至于细小、独特的说话习惯、口型的状态等等都要帖合于原片中的人物，而不可根据自己的理解和感受另行创作。配音演员不仅仅是被动地对台词，而且要将整个人物的精神风貌、行为目的、人物性格、气质、人物身份、人物关系、人物的情感、思维、交流反应以及神情、动作等内容，从内到外一并融进台词中并反映出来，使所配的人物准确、贴切、生动，富有魅力。
23. Titanic
(Rose and Jack are alone in the room)
Rose: Jack, this is impossible. I can't see you.
Jack: I need talk to you.
Rose: No, Jack, no Jack, I'm engaged, I'm marrying Cal. I love Cal.
Jack: Rose, you're no picnic…alright you're a spoiled little brat even, but under that, you're a most amazingly astounding wonderful girl woman that I've ever known and…
Rose: Jack, I…
Jack: No, wait. Let me try to get this out. You may. I am not an idiot. I know how the world works. I've got ten boxes in my pockets. I have nothing to offer you. Rose. I know that. I understand. But I'm too involved now. You jump, I jump, remember? I can't turn away without knowin' you'll be alright.
Rose: Well, I'm fine, I'll be fine. Really.
Jack: Really? I don't think so. They have got you trapped. Rose, and you're goin' to die if you don't break free. Maybe not right away, ‘cause you're strong. But sooner or later the fire that I love about you, that fire gonna be burn out.
Rose: It's not up to you to save me, Jack.
Jack: You're right. Only you can do that.
Rose: I'm going back.. Leave me alone.
(Rose went out and slammed the door.)
24.The Love Letter
Janet: You won't believe this, but George has a crush on me.
Helen: Really?
Janet: Yes. Do you think of a drink? So he comes to that shop today, and we are standing, we're talking at that counter. You know that counter always breaking, how it falls through sometimes. So we got to get that thing fixed. So I say, ‘We got to get that thing fixed. ‘ and he says, ‘Oh, I'll help you.' And I say, ‘Really?' and he says, ‘Sure, Anything for you, Janet.' ‘Anything for you, Janet,' he says.
Helen: And?
Janet: So, then. That's not enough, I know, but then he puts the smoke detector on the counter and everything. And he looks at me and he puts the manuals in front of me, you know. And he looks at me and he says, Make sure you read the manuals,' and he kind of, he blinked, like a wink. Not a blink, but more like a …kind of a sexy … not anything like I'm doing, I'm sure, but kind of a … Anyway, and then, and then, he gives me this.(Janet shows Helen the love letter.)
Janet: OK, ‘Do you know how in love with you I am?' blah, blah, ‘I'm on fire.' ‘I'm on fire.' Get it? He is a fire man.
Helen: Em, I don't think George could write a letter like this.
Janet: Neither did I. Then read that. I think well man is … hot. He's got his passion. He's just brewing inside, dying to get out…
Helen: It's not yours.
Janet: You know, Helen, I come over and share this with you. Why can't you be happy for me? Why can't you just be excited that I get something, that I would get a letter…
Helen: It’s mine.
Janet: What?
Helen: It’s mine.
Janet: I just found it, so I ...I’m sorry. I, um, well, who?
Helen: I don’t know.
Janet: What do you mean? Where have...where did you get it?
Helen: In the mail.
Janet: In the house here?
Helen: In the bookstore.
12.7 新闻播音
播音是运用有声语言和副语言(体态语、形象)通过广播电视传媒所进行的一项创作活动。而新闻播音是指广播电台、电视台发布的新闻通过播音员的有声语言传送出来的播音创作。新闻对客观事物的反映是概述的，要求准确、及时，以体现出新闻的真实性和时效性。要播好新闻，播音员必须具有新闻敏感，注意长期积累，了解宣传背景，把握方针政策。播音员在新闻备稿和播稿中要注意寻找和把握新闻的新鲜点，即新闻稿件中的新闻事实及其具有现实意义的关键内容；新闻播音要注意把握好分寸感，既不能不够，也不能过火；新闻播音还具有表态性，即播音员在报道新闻事实时，必须鲜明地表达出自己的态度。
新闻播音真、快、新的特点，使得新闻语言表现出自己的特色：字音准确，音色纯正；声音明快，语言干净；语义连贯，语句流畅。总起来说，新闻播音的语言以叙述、报告为主，以实声为主。
25. VOA News
China has officially announced President Clinton would make a state visit in late June, saying his trip would help to further improve ties between the two countries. VOA's Stephany Ho reports relations between China and the US have been troubled by sensitive issues, including Tibet, human rights and Taiwan.
26. VOA News
German police have arrested a former Nazi officer accused of being involved in the war time deaths of at least 70,000 people. The 78-year-old suspect was not immediately identified. Officials say he was arrested at his home in southern Germany on Tuesday. Prosecutors say the low-ranking former secret police officer has admitted personally killing 500 people over two days back in 1943. They think he was involved in the killing of tens of thousands of people, most of them Jews in Poland and Ukraine during the war.
27. VOA News
People who don't eat enough foods that are rich in Vitamin B6 maybe putting themselves at an increased risk of developing coronary artery disease. That's the suggestion of a new study that appears in this week's American Heart Association Journal Circulation. VOA's Jessica Bermon reports.
“The study carried out at 19 centers in 9 European countries measured Vitamin B6 levels in 750 heart disease patients and an equal number of healthy people. Investigators led by cardiologist Kelin Robinson of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio found low B6 levels in 20% of the participants. And those with low levels of the nutrient were nearly two times as likely to suffer heart disease or stroke than those with normal levels. An accompany in editorial called for more study, warning that it's too soon to say whether low B6 levels contribute to heart disease. Jessica Bermon, VOA news, Washington.”
28. CRI News
A Chinese enterprise has been fined more than 1.68 million yuan, or 210 thousand US dollars, for discharging industrial wastewater into a local lake.
The Guizhou Fertilizer plant in southwest China was found guilty of causing the sudden death of more than two million kilograms of fish in the nearby lake Hongfeng. Investigators say the death of the fish was due primarily to the plant's industrial wastewater discharge.
Five local fish breeders had brought the lawsuit against the fertilizer plant.
29. CRI News
China's draft resolution on human rights has won majority support at the ongoing 96th Inter-Parliamentary conference in Beijing, and become the basis of a conference resolution.
Delegates to the conference reached a consensus on the need to guarantee an individual's human rights, including free access to food. The draft, as presented by the Chinese delegation, includes a comprehensive statement on these issues.
The parliamentarians, representing 21 countries, agree that the human rights, especially the rights of women and children.
The draft calls on all countries to strengthen mutual understanding through dialogue, and to settle differences over human rights through peaceful negotiations.
注释：
Inter-parliamentary conference：议会间会议
30. FM: Sino-US Co-operation Vital to World Peace
(China Daily, March 7, 2002)
Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said yesterday that China and the United States are committed to developing a “constructive and co-operative relationship,” which is essential to global peace, stability and security.
President Jiang Zemin and US President George W.Bush agreed to advance relations in their two meetings – one in Shanghai last October and the other in Beijing last month.
Tang made the remarks at a press conference yesterday at the Fifth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress.
“I want to emphasize that Taiwan question remains the most sensitive and most important core issue in Sino-US relations,” he said.
Since US President Richard M. Nixon, all US presidents have made serious commitments to adopt the one-China policy and observe the three China- US joint communiques. President Bush also made such commitments during his two visits to China, Tang said.
He urged the United States to “match its words with deeds” by abiding by the commitment it made.
Tang said the upcoming visits to the United States by Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Vice-President Hu Jintao this year will offer an opportunity to further improve and develop Sino-US relations.
He expressed China's willingness to work with the United States to narrow differences, expand common ground, increase bilateral exchange and promote co-operation.
The Taiwan question can be handled appropriately so long as the US keeps its commitments and observes the three Sino-US joint communiques.
Tang again expressed China's opposition to the United States' ‘Taiwan Relations Act.'
“The ‘Taiwan Relations Act' is only a document of the United States, and China has opposed it from the very beginning,” he said.
Tang said he hopes to push a constructive and co- operative (Sino-US) relationship” adding that ‘constructive' means the two countries have common views and interests in addition to differences, and that such co-operation should not be temporary or simply issue- based.
The two countries should continue long-term co-operation by treating each other with sincerity and maintaining common ground while shelving differences.
Turning to the increasing US military presence in Asia, Tang said that a new concept of security has recently appeared in Asia, the core of which is security through mutual trust and development through co-operation.
Stressing that the new concept of security represents the direction of international relations, Tang hopes that US Asian security policy will conform to the needs of Asian peoples and adapt to on- going changes in the region.
注释：
1) a press conference：记者招待会
2) communique ：公报
3) abide by 信守
4) bilateral exchange：双边交流
