1、ladies and gentlemen , good afternoon! i?m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is youth. i hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it.first i want to ask you some questions:1 do you know what is youth?2 how do you master you
2、r youth?youthyouth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness ; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life .youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appeti
3、te , for adventure over the love of ease. this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . nobody grows old merely by a number of years . we grow old by deserting our ideals.years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . worry , fear , self Cdistrust bows the heart an
4、d turns the spirit back to dust .whether 60 of 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 living . in the center of your heart and my heart there?s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of
5、 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 pessimism, then you are grown old ,even at 20 , but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimi
6、sm , there is hope you may die young at 80.that?s all !thank you!my favorite color blue has always been my favorite color, and i think it will always continue to be so.i have several reasons for liking this color best. first, it is a very soothing color and makes people happy. how do people feel whe
7、n they wake up to day when the sky is a dirty grey? sad and gloomy. but when the sky is a deep blue, good cheer and joy enters our hearts.another reason why i am most partial to blue is that it is the color of oceans and rivers and lakes on a sunny day. whenever i go swimming, i feel as though i wer
8、e reborn.i have also heard that in english, the term true blue means to be faithful. as i have a great respect for the quality of faithfulness, this is one more reason for my liking blue so much. gloomy a.partial a.refined a.the generation gap i remember that when i was in my teens, i used to rebel
9、at many of the dos and donts my parents used to dictate to me. for example, when i kept on playing jazz records on the record player, my father used to condemn such music as sheer noise and replace them with disks of classical music that i always considered extremely dull.my mom and dad were also ve
10、ry particular about the friends i went out with, always quoting the maxim the one rotten apple could ruin a whole barrel of apples. when i insisted that i sleep with my pet dog peppy, they immediately said no because they thought that i would be bitten by fleas.these are just a few examples of many
11、of the things that i thought my parents were ueasonable about. today, however, i am also the father of a boy of fifteen, and i find that i, too, am pressuring my son with a lot of rules and regulations that he seems to find hard to swallow. the other day, i noticed that my sons hair was altogether t
12、oo long, so i told him to go to the barbers and get it trimmed short. ordinarily, he is fairly obedient, but this time he put his foot down.whats wrong with long hair? he said. all my buddies have long hair. and besides, its my own hair, isnt it? i dont think you have the authority to order me to cu
13、t it short, even if youre my father!when i was a boy, if i had spoken with such impertinence to my father, i know that he would have given me a good thrashing. but i suddenly realized that we are now living in a more liberal world, and that my sons insistence on wearing his hair long was merely an i
14、nstance of the generation gap that existed between us. so i relented, and so he still wears his hair long. generation n.dictate v.jazz n.condemn v.particular a.maxim n.flea n.put ones foot down.emancipator n.discourtesy n.restraint n.manliness n.opponent n.erstwhile a.inaugural a.environmental prote
15、ction elapse v. shangrila n. cherish v. civilization n. ubiquitous a. crystal-clear a. filthy a. measure n, small kindness remuneration n. apprais v.philanthropist n. orphanage n. laudable a. acclaim n. plaudit n. crippled a. atmosphere n. inconsequential a. everytime i am asked what i want to do in
16、 the future. i think a minute and say being a doctor is my dream job.doctor is an other kind of artist who does human art by fighting with diseases and making people feel good. i think it is a pleasure to try my best to bring happiness to others. it is a feeling of pride and i am fond of it. in mode
17、rn life, a mass of people work day and night to seek wealth and as a result they ignore their health. it is known that strong body is a foundation of beatific life. i dreamed to be an excellent doctor who can help them have a right to enjoy life again. curing people is a doctors holy responsibility.
18、being a doctor is my dream job, now i should study hard to gain more knowledge to reach my goal.my favourite colour is green,we can see the colour everywhere:tree leaves are green,grass is green and so on.green is also a healthy colour,during our lives,we seeing this colour more often is good for ou
19、r eyes,and why we dont called those natural food like red food,blue food or purple food? so you can understand how impotant it is.green means life,hope youth and etc.thats my favourite colour:green,i hope more and more people will like green like me. thanks for listing!everyone is attracted by beaut
20、y and beauty is powerful. but what is true beauty? perhaps you can get the answer from the following story.this morning i went to the market to buy some vegetables with my parents. on the way we all highly praised a young man in western-style clothes and leather shoes who was riding by. but he rode
21、so fast that he knocked an old lady down carelessly.instead of stopping, he pretended not to see this and rode away quickly. we were all very angry with the young man. to our happiness, a girl in plain dress ran forward at once, helped the lady up and took her home. we all praised the girl.from this
22、 we know we cannot judge a person by his appearance. a person who is dressed beautifully may not have a beautiful soul. only a person who has a beautiful soul is really beautiful.youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of
23、 the emotions : it is the freshness ; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life .youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease. this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . nobody grows old merely by a number of years . wegrow old by deserting our ideals.years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . worry ,
