突然要比赛英文朗诵,我要找一份英文朗诵稿.生词不要太多,时间大约4分钟的样子.

突然要比赛英文朗诵,我要找一份英文朗诵稿.生词不要太多,时间大约4分钟的样子.

我初三的时候朗诵过的文章 初二也没有关系啦
Youth
by Samuel Erman
Youth is not a time of life,it is a state of mind,it is not a matter of rosy cheeks,red lips and supple knees,it is a matter of the will,a quality of the imagination,a vigor of the emotions,it is the fresh-ness of the deep spring of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for advent-ure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.Nobody grows merely by a number of years; we grow old by deserting our ideas.
Years may wrinkle the skin,but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry,fear,self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16,there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders,the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of the living.In the center of your heart and my heart,there’s a wireless station:so long as it receives messages of beauty,hope,cheer,courage and power from men and from the infinite,so long as you are young.
When the aerials are down,and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessi- mism,then you've grown old,even at 20,but as long as your aerials are up,to catch waves of optimism,there’s hope you may die young at 80.