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　　It is human nature that all of us should be fond of beauty. Everybody wasborn with a heart for beauty.

　　Today in China,with the rising of our living standard, people's requirementof beauty has been heIghtened accordingly. Some people spare no money or energyon beautiful clothes, fashionable hair styles,the decoration of their houses andeven the improvement of their looks. But it seems to me,all these are more orless confined to the beauty in appearance,or rather,the outward beauty.

　　In my opinion,we shouldn't only pay attention to beautiful appearance andneglect the beautification of the mind and what we are after should be theperfect unity of the outward beauty and the inner beauty. As we all know,so faras objects and animals are concerned,there is only beautiful appearance to bementioned, but to us humanbeings, although the outward beauty really matters,the inner beauty is much more important. This was confirmed by a famous Russianwriter in words much like this: "A person is

　　not lovely for being beautiful but beautiful for being lovely. "

　　Here, I'd like to quote two typical instances and I'm sure, my dearfriends,from them you'll find out what real beauty is.

　　Recently I learned from the radio an unpleasant incident about a well knownsinger. She is very charming with a sweet beautiful voice and very famous forsinging the song."Devotion of Love". Not long ago,she was invited to ZhejiangProvince to give performance. The moment she was to appear on the stage,shesuddenly asked for more reward. Worse still,after her request was satisfied, shedidn't begin to sing at once. Instead,she took her time to count all the moneypiece by piece. Thus she kept the audience waiting for half an hour. So when sheat last showed up and started to sing "Devotion of Love",a man rose up from hisseat and shouted at her,"You don't have any devotion of love. You are notqualified to sing this song ! "Hearing this, the singer stopped singing andbegan to shout abuses with her finger pointed at the man. At this time the wholeaudience burst into an uproar.

　　How disappointed her keen listeners were when they learned this! It is thesinger herself who spoiled her beautiful image in the eyes of others.

　　Now, I'm coming to another true story. It's about a poor, ordinary lookingold woman. She was a widow without any children, living barely from hand tomouth by picking odds and ends from rubbish heaps. However,she took in more thanten homeless orphans successively and managed to bring them up. Every day shelabored from morning till night. In order to earn as much money as possible toraise the children and to keep them in school,she even went to a hospitalregularly to sell her blood. She got so weak for the loss of blood that shesometimes fell in a faint on her way home. Responsibility is a Badge of Honourfor Youth.