圣约翰堂英语角第一届背诵比赛(中级组)文档格式.doc

1、第四篇：Youth 青春 第五篇： Three Days to See（Excerpts）假如给我三天光明（节选） 第六篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美 中级组选背文章目录（不参加比赛，背诵有小礼物相送）Do Not Worry不要忧虑 Do Not Judge Others 不要论断人l 第一篇：If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic power

2、s, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.Love is patient; love is kind; love is no

3、t envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends. l 第二篇 ：When was the last time

4、someone hugged you? How did you feel? Something very healing and powerful happens when someone hugs you.A hug can comfort your heart and dry your tears. A hug also means that you are protected. Since hugs also relax your muscles, they can help relieve stress. A loving hug builds trust in a relations

5、hip, too.Think you dont need any hugs? A hug can make you feel special. If you are having a bad day, a hug can often cheer you up. Hugging a sick person can even give them a desire to live again.How many hugs do you need a day? Some people say that everyone needs eight hugs a day. If that seems like

6、 a lot, remember that all those hugs make you feel loved. Everyone needs that!l 第三篇：As a child, I would spend hours dreaming about my future .I imagined having a beautiful home and family with lots of children. I also dreamed of being a teacher, pianist, world traveler, baker or doctor.Dreaming moti

7、vated me to set goals that could make my dreams come true. It also encouraged me to learn new skills like painting, knitting and cooking. Without any goals or dreams, I realized that the opportunities in life were endless.A dream is something that you imagine might happen. There are no limits. Once

8、you have a dream, you can create a goal. A goal is a specific objective that you can work toward. It has a plan and time limit, so you know when you reach it. Goals turn dreams into reality. Write your dreams down and evaluate whether or not they are realistic.Perhaps you want to change something ab

9、out yourself. Maybe you want to lose weight, exercise every week or earn higher grades. You may want to read 10 books this year, finish college or travel to another country. These are specific goals.If you want to reach your goal, you must have a deadline. Then work toward that deadline. You will kn

10、ow when you reach your goal.Once you have a goal, create a strategy that will help you reach that goal. Dreams are free, but goals have a price. You must spend time, money and effort to reach them. If you want to learn an instrument, then you must take lessons and practice. It is not always easy, bu

11、t your hard work will pay off.Finally, dont give up on your goals. At times, you may get discouraged. But dont give up ! Work hard and you can reach your goal!l 第四篇：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

12、 will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; 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

13、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 wonders, the

14、unfailing appetite for 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 messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. When your aerials are down, and you

15、r spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then youve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, theres hope you may die young at 80. l 第五篇：All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified t

16、ime to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities

17、 is strictly delimited. Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each da

18、y as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are

19、those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He

20、becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but us

21、ually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The same lethargy, I am afraid, characteri

22、zes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or he

23、aring seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are

24、ill. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. l 第六篇： The love of beauty is an essential part of

25、all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will

26、be attained. Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence. The universe is its temple. It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring. It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea. It gleams from the hues of the shell and the preciou

27、s stone. And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun-all overflow with beauty. This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living

28、in the midst of it and yet remaining almost blind to it. All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature. There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumn winds, but calls for our study and admiration. The power to appreciated bea

29、uty not merely increases our sources of happiness-it enlarges our moral nature, too. Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels our cares. Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all your little perplexities and anxieties will vanish. Listen to sweet music

30、, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies will pass away. The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness. 中级组选背文章Do Not Worry不要忧虑（Matthew 6:25-34圣经马太福音6章25到34节）Mat6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about

31、 your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin,29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of t