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Youth Youth is not a time of life; its a state of mind; its not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; its a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; its the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for the adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than of 20.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. 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 beings heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of whats next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station: so long as it receives message of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you 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 optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80. Vocabulary supple [s?pl] adj.灵活的 vigor [v?g?] n. 活力 spring [spr??] n. 泉水temperamental [t?mpr?m?ntl] adj. 易冲动的 predominance [pr?dɑm?n?ns] n. 优势timidity [t?m?d?ti] n. 胆怯 appetite [?p?ta?t][d?z??t] vt. 遗弃 wrinkle [r??kl] vt. 使起皱纹enthusiasm [?nθuz??z?m] n. 热情 [ba?] vt. 弯腰lure [l??(r)] n. 诱惑 infinite [?nf?n?t] adj. 无限的aerial [e?r??l] n. [电讯] 天线 cynicism [s?n?s?z(?)m] n. 愤世嫉俗pessimism [p?s?m?z?m] n. 悲观 optimism [ɑpt?m?z?m] n. 乐观 Youth by Samuel Ullman Composition Imitation Teaching objectives: 1.Help students improve their?abilities?to appreciate?well-written English?essays and to write with similar sentence structures. 2. Help students taste the language of essays and get them interested in English