篇一：英文朗诵稿(4篇)
Youth
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 freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempera-mental 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. 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 spring back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,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 is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages 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.
Knowledge and virtue
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command
over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life--these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and on the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.
A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple he grew. One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him
to take it home and plant it. The farmer was pleased with the gift, but when he got home he did not know where to plant it. He was afraid that if he planted the tree near the road, strangers would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree in one of his field, his neighbors would come at night and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit. Finally he planted the tree in his wood where no one could see it. But without sunlight and good soil, the tree soon died. Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a poor place."What's the difference?" the farmer said angrily. "If I had planted the tree near the road, strangers would have stolen the fruit. If I had planted the tree in one of my field, my neighbors would have come at night and stolen some of the apples. If I had planted it near my house, my own children would have taken the fruit." "Yes," said the friend, "but at least someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed everyone of the fruit, but also you have destroyed a good apple tree!" A lesson of life
everything happens for the best,”my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment." Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932.I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of
every station-and got turned down every time. In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance,”she said. I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While them was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father sad Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired. My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer. As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked a1oud,"How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?" I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?"Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game. On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: "if you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment" I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
篇二：小学英语朗诵稿
小学英语朗诵稿-把握梦想(Hold Fast To Dreams) 时间:2009-05-26 01:37来源:未知 作者:admin 点击:
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Hold Fast To Dreams
把握梦想
----by Langston Hughs
----作者：兰司敦·修司
Hold fast to dreams
把握梦想
For if dreams die
如果梦想消失
Life is a broken-winged bird
生命将是折翼之鸟
That cannot fly
无法飞行
Hold fast to dreams
把握梦想
For when dreams go
如果梦想逝去
Life is a barren field
生命将是一片荒原
Frozen with snow
大雪冰封
Hold Fast To Dreams
把握梦想
Hold fast to dreams
把握梦想
For if dreams die
如果梦想消失
Life is a broken-winged bird
生命将是折翼之鸟
That cannot fly
无法飞行
Hold fast to dreams
把握梦想
For when dreams go
如果梦想逝去
Life is a barren field
生命将是一片荒原 Hold Fast To Dreams
把握梦想
Hold fast to dreams 把握梦想
For if dreams die
如果梦想消失
Life is a broken-winged bird 生命将是折翼之鸟
That cannot fly
无法飞行
Hold fast to dreams 把握梦想
For when dreams go 如果梦想逝去
Life is a barren field 生命将是一片荒原
Frozen with snow
大雪冰封
Frozen with snow
大雪冰封
篇三：望远小学英语诗歌美文朗诵比赛方案
望远小学英语诗歌美文朗诵比赛方案
一、比赛要求和形式:
1、朗诵形式:
1) 个人朗诵 2) 小组朗诵 3) 伴舞或伴乐朗诵
2、朗诵内容:
本届朗诵比赛体现 “ 阳光阅读、快乐阅读 ”。选取的诗歌内容须是健康向上、积极进取、珍惜时间、珍爱生命、热爱学习或热爱生活的。
３、朗诵时间：
要求２分钟以上，３分钟以内。
二、评分标准和办法:
1.评分标准(满分为10分,最后保留1位小数点):
1) 仪表、服装、印象分（1.5分）：包括朗诵者的出场、退场的精神面貌，气质和整体印象。
2）思想、内容分（1.5分）：包括朗诵节目的思想、内容健康，积极向上，符合本次朗诵要求。
3）朗诵艺术效果分（7分）：包括朗诵嗓音优美，发音正确，咬、吐字清晰、标准，朗诵节奏准确、具有抑扬顿挫、富有较强的感染力和号召力。