2017年6月英语四级写作练习：青春年少

 　　四级作文作为拉分的重点部分，应引起同学们足够的重视，小编找了许多作文范文来给同学们练习和提升语感。

　　范文：

　　Youth

　　Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of pink cheeks, red lips and flexible knees; it is a matter of will,a quality of imagination,a vigor¹ of the emotion,it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

　　Youth means a dispositional control of courage over cowardice,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. 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 looking forward to wonder,the endless child-like appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living.In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless² station: so long as it is receiving messages of beauty, hope, cheer,courage and power from men and from God,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 optimism,there is hope you may die young at 80.

1 vigor   

n.活力，精力，元气

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• She didn't want to be reminded of her beauty or her former vigor.现在，她不愿人们提起她昔日的美丽和以前的精力充沛。

2 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。