高中生背什麼英語文章

① 哪個有英語的經典美文（適合高中生背的）和經典例句等聽力 閱讀理解及數學題

各大新華書店都有你需要的，英文美文選100篇，名字大概是這樣記不清了，裡面的文章非常好，有經典的詩歌，有著名作家的短文，散文，政治家的演講，甚至有名人家書， 將軍的宣戰書什麼的，我當時是愛不釋手。

數學題的話，去買GRE數學真題就行了，裡面的數學題很好也不難，高中生拿來練也可以的。

當年讀初高中，最喜歡的一套英文讀物是《瘋狂英語》，涵蓋的比較廣，編輯也比較用心

② 適合背誦的英語短文，有針對性的

你可以買一本<<高中生/四級必背作文100篇>>哦.

給你推薦一些
英語四級作文必背範文

1、致辭：

Directions: Write a speech on the opening of a conference of no less than 120 words. In your speech, you should:

1） 進行自我介紹，

2） 詳細介紹大會內容，

3） 結束語。

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Beijing! To begin with, I would like to make a brief introction to myself. I am the president of Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd.

The following is my introction to the conference. First, it is my great honor to be here with all of you and declare open the Conference of International Trade Cooperation. Second, on behalf of our company, I would like to express my heartfelt welcome to all the guests and delegates. Last, I believe our cooperative efforts are sure to be proctive.

I wish all of you enjoy yourselves ring this conference and hope the above information will help you. If you have any question for me, please feel free to ask at any time. Thank you for your attention.

2、求職信/求學信：

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter applying for a position of a company. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:

1. 申請職位，

2. 簡要介紹自己的情況，

3. 期待回信。

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am senior from the Department of Business Administration of Beijing University. I am writing the letter in purpose of applying for admission into your esteemed institution/your recently advertised position for a staff member.

I am sure that I am qualified for it. First, enclosed with this letter is my resume, which further details my previous academic qualifications and work experience. Second, not only do my qualifications and experience make me a perfect candidate for it, my cheerful personality is well suited to studying in your prestigious university/working as a staff member. Last, my hobbies include sports and music.

Words fail me when I try to express my heartfelt gratitude to the help you rendered me. Your prompt and favorable attention to my inquiry would be highly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Li Ming

3、邀請信：

Directions: You want to invite some friends to a party. Write an invitation letter to them indivially:

1） 邀請參加晚會，

2） 說明舉辦晚會的原因，

3） 將安排哪些活動。

Dear Wangcai,

I am greatly honored to formally invite you to participate in Mr. Old Fish』s wedding ceremony with Ms. Fujiwora to be held at Beijing Grand Hotel from 8 to 10 p.m. on April 1, 2007.

As you are a close friend of us, we would very much like you to attend the celebration and share our joy. The occasion will start at seven o』clock in the evening, with the showing of their wedding ceremony. This will be followed by a dinner party. At around ten, we will hold a small musical soiree, at which a band will perform some works by Bach and Strauss.

If you do not have any prior appointment on April 1, we look forward to the pleasure of your company.

Yours sincerely,

Li Ming

4、個人簡歷

Directions: Write of resume of yourself of no less than 120 words. In it, you should:

1、說明姓名、地址、聯系方式、求職目標，

2、教育背景、工作經歷、資歷，

3、所獲獎勵、特長，以及個人資料。

RESUME

Li Ming

P. O. Box 237, Beijing University

5, Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871

Tel: 62768888 Email: [email protected]

Career Objective: A position with management potential in the

banking business specializing in international corporate financing

Ecational Background:

Sept 2003 to Beijing University

July 2007 Major in International Business Management

Main courses include English,

computer,Business Management, Accounting, International Commercial Law

Work Experience:

July 2006 to Bank of China

June 2007 Internship, Secretary to Deputy Manager of Marketing

Draft business correspondence

Schele deputy manager』s appointments

Qualifications: University graation certificate and

bachelor degree to be conferred upon graation (2007)

College English Test Band 4 June 2005

Honors & Awards: Twice awarded scholarship by Beijing

University 2005& 2006

Special Skills: Familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel

Ability to work independently

Outstanding Organizational skills

Experience: President of Student Union 2003－present

Personal Data: Date of Birth: Sep. 17, 1984

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Unmarried

5、告示：

Directions: The Students』 Union of your department is planning a Chinese Speaking Contest. Write an announcement which covers the following information:

1) 比賽目的、時間、地點，

2) 參賽者的要求，

3) 裁判和獎勵的細節。

You should write about 120 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the end of the announcement.

Chinese Speaking Contest

December 22, 2007

To improve students』 ability to speak Chinese and enrich after-class activities, the Students』 Union of Department of Chinese Language and Literature is organizing a school-wide Chinese speaking contest to be held on Saturday next week (29 December) at the Students』 Auditorium. Those who are interested in taking part in it may sign up with the monitor of their classes before Tuesday next week. Five professors will be invited to be judges. The first six winners will be given awards. Everybody is welcome to be present at the contest.

The Students』 Union

Department of Chinese Language and Literature

6、就業

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Jobs for Graates. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below:

1、 大學生難找工作，

2、 原因很多，

3、 解決的辦法。

Job hunting has always been a headache for college students. Though many graates are employed right after graation, some are not. Most serious of all, some still have no idea where to go working even a long time after graation.

The reasons for this phenomenon are various. On the one hand, a few years ago colleges and universities enrolled so many students in popular majors, such as economy, finance and so on that the number of graates was greater than the need in the market. On the other hand, most graates would rather stay in large cities without suitable job to do than go to the country.

I reckon this problem can be solved if both colleges and students take measures. First, they should research the market and develop special skills to suit its need. Second, students』 attitude towards employment should be changed. They should go to small cities and country. There they can also give full play to their professional knowledge. In a word, if we pay much attention, the situation can be improved.

7、考試

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic My Views on Examinations. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below:

1、 大學都用考試來衡量學生的成績

2、 考生可能帶來的副作用

3、 我對考試的看法

In most colleges and universities the examination is used as a chief means of deciding whether a student succeeds or fails in mastering a particular subject. Although it does the job quite efficiently, its side effects are also enormous.

To begin with, examinations lower the standards of teaching. Since teachers are often judged by examination results, they are reced to training their students in exam techniques. No subjects can be taught successfully merely through being approached with intent to take examinations. In addition, the most undesirable effect is that examinations encourage bad study habits. As the examination score is the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is driven to memorize mechanically rather than to think creatively.

In fact, few of us admit that examinations can contribute anything really important to the students』 academic development. If that is the case, why cannot we make a change and devise something more efficient and reliable than examinations?

8、讀後感：

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic My Favorite Novel. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below:

1、 我最喜愛的小說是···

2、 該小說的內容

3、 我為什麼喜愛

My favorite novel is Around the World in Eighty Days which is written by Jules Verne. The author was born in France and devoted himself to literature and wrote several scientific romances, which gained him the name——Father of Modern Science Fiction.

This is a book of science fiction which tells us an exciting story about an English gentleman, Mr. Phileas Fogg, who makes a bet with his clubmates and manages to travel around the world in eighty days. It gives us a vivid description of the many difficulties and incidents which happen on his journey.

From this story, we can see the author』s deep love for the sea, travel and adventure, which played a vital role in his life. We are also astonished and convinced by his fertile imagination and scientific and geographical knowledge.

9、難忘的人：

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The most unforgettable Person I ever Know. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below:

1、 我生活中最難忘的人是······

2、 為什麼他（或她）令我難以忘懷

3、 結論

In my life I have met a great many people who are really worth recalling. But perhaps the most unforgettable person I ever know is my English teacher.

What frequently brings back memories of my school teacher is his special qualities. First and foremost, he gave us the greatest gift a teacher can offer—an awakening of a passion for learning. He not only led us to an appreciation of the beauty and perfection of English language and literature, but also aroused our great interest in exploring something deeper in this field. Furthermore, I was attracted by his lively wit. I remember that we students always anticipated his class with great eagerness because his lecture were humorously delivered, never failing to provoke chuckles or loud laughs.

Although it is nearly two years since I attended his last class, he is the talk of our old classmates, and I know part of him has already stayed in my heart.

10、論說文框架：

Owing to the speedy economic development, the number of people who…has considerably increased/declined. It is universally acknowledged that … plays a crucial role in modern society.

Due attention has to be paid to the issue of…. With the reform and opening－up in recent decades，people in mounting numbers have come to realize the significance of …. If we let this situation continue as it is, we do not know where humans will be in the forthcoming future.
Accordingly, it is imperative for us to take drastic measures. To begin with, we should appeal to the authorities to make strict laws to …. In addition, we should cultivate the awareness of people that … is essential to us. Only in this way can we reverse this disturbing trend illustrated above.

③ 求適合高一學生背誦的英語美文，每篇50個字就行，越多越好，謝謝！！！

01 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 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. 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 st.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being』s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you』ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there』s hope you may die young at 80.

譯文： 青春

青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想像，炙熱的戀情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒苟安。如此銳氣，二十後生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，並非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。

歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。

無論年屆花甲，擬或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號，你就青春永駐，風華常存。 、

一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實已垂垂老矣；然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。

05 Ambition

It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.

Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!

There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one』s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.

譯文： 抱負

一個缺乏抱負的世界將會怎樣，這不難想像。或許，這將是一個更為友善的世界：沒有渴求，沒有磨擦，沒有失望。人們將有時間進行反思。他們所從事的工作將不是為了他們自身，而是為了整個集體。競爭永遠不會介入；沖突將被消除。人們的緊張關系將成為過往雲煙。創造的重壓將得以終結。藝術將不再惹人費神，其功能將純粹為了慶典。人的壽命將會更長，因為由激烈拼爭引起的心臟病和中風所導致的死亡將越來越少。焦慮將會消失。時光流逝，抱負卻早已遠離人心。

啊，長此以往人生將變得多麼乏味無聊！

有一種盛行的觀點認為，成功是一種神話，因此抱負亦屬虛幻。這是不是說實際上並不豐在成功？成就本身就是一場空？與諸多運動和事件的力量相比，男男女女的努力顯得微不足？顯然，並非所有的成功都值得景仰，也並非所有的抱負都值得追求。對值得和不值得的選擇，一個人自然而然很快就能學會。但即使是最為憤世嫉俗的人暗地裡也承認，成功確實存在，成就的意義舉足輕重，而把世上男男女女的所作所為說成是徒勞無功才是真正的無稽之談。認為成功不存在的觀點很可能造成混亂。這種觀點的本意是一筆勾銷所有提高能力的動機，求取業績的興趣和對子孫後代的關注。

我們無法選擇出生，無法選擇父母，無法選擇出生的歷史時期與國家，或是成長的周遭環境。我們大多數人都無法選擇死亡，無法選擇死亡的時間或條件。但是在這些無法選擇之中，我們的確可以選擇自己的生活方式：是勇敢無畏還是膽小怯懦，是光明磊落還是厚顏無恥，是目標堅定還是隨波逐流。我們決定生活中哪些至關重要，哪些微不足道。我們決定，用以顯示我們自身重要性的，不是我們做了什麼，就是我們拒絕做些什麼。但是不論世界對我們所做的選擇和決定有多麼漠不關心，這些選擇和決定終究是我們自己做出的。我們決定，我們選擇。而當我們決定和選擇時，我們的生活便得以形成。最終構築我們命運的就是抱負之所在。

06 What I Have Lived For

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness---that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what---at last---I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always it brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

譯文： 我為何而生

我的一生被三種簡單卻又無比強烈的激情所控制：對愛的渴望，對知識的探索和對人類苦難難以抑制的嶼。這些激情像狂風，把我恣情吹向四方，掠過苦痛的大海，迫使我瀕臨絕望的邊緣。

我尋求愛，首先因為它使我心為之著迷，這種難以名狀的美妙迷醉使我願意用所有的餘生去換取哪怕幾個小時這樣的幸福。我尋求愛，還因為它能緩解我心理上的孤獨中，我感覺心靈的戰栗，仿如站在世界的邊緣而面前是冰冷，無底的死亡深淵。我尋求愛，因為在我所目睹的結合中，我彷彿看到了聖賢與詩人們所嚮往的天堂之景。這就是我所尋找的，雖然對人的一生而言似乎有些遙不可及，但至少是我用盡一生所領悟到的。

我用同樣的激情去尋求知識。我希望能理解人類的心靈，希望能夠知道群星閃爍的緣由。我試圖領悟畢達哥拉斯所景仰的「數即萬物」的思想。我已經悟出了其中的一點點道理，盡管並不是很多。

愛和知識，用它們的力量把人引向天堂。但是同情卻總把人又拽回到塵世中來。痛苦的呼喊聲回盪在我的內心。飢餓的孩子，受壓迫的難民，貧窮和痛苦的世界，都是對人類所憧憬的美好生活的無情嘲弄。我渴望能夠減少邪惡，但是我無能為力，我也難逃其折磨。

這就是我的一生。我已經找到它的價值。而且如果有機會，我很願意能再活它一次。

④ 高中必背英語經典美文

給一位青年的忠告advice to a young man
Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest. Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it is because they quit work at six in the evening, and do not go home until two in the morning. It』s the interval that kills, my son. The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumbers, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.
謹記，我的年輕人，你們必須工作.不管你是使鋤頭還是用筆，也不管是推手推車還是編記賬簿，也不管你是種地還是編輯報紙，是拍賣師亦或是作家，都必須有一份工作，並為之努力奮斗.如果仔細觀察周圍的人，你就會發現，那些工作最努力的人最有可能安享晚年而無須去工作.不要害怕超負荷的工作會縮短你的壽命，不足三十歲的年齡，你的承受能力遠不止如此.如果說真的有人過早送命，那完全是因為他們在晚上六點結束工作，卻要在外流連到凌晨兩點才歸家.我的年輕人，正是晚上六點到凌晨兩點的這段時間的生活毀了他們自己.工作會增加你的食慾，工作會使你安然入睡，工作將會使你心滿意足地享受假日.
There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even it simply speaks of them as 「old So-and-So』s boy」. Nobody likes them; the great, busy world doesn』t know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make a st in the world. The busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you.
有的年輕人不工作，但世界並不會因他們自豪。它不知道他們的姓名，甚至簡單地將他們概括為「老令人討厭者的男孩 」 。沒有人喜歡他們;偉大，繁忙的世界不知道他們在那裡。因此，找出哪些你想成為和做的，脫下你的外衣，把粉塵拋在世界上。越是繁忙的你越是少受傷害，甜蜜將成為您的睡眠，光明和幸福著您的假期，更好地滿足你的意志世界。

⑤ 尋找適合高中生背誦的英語文章

新概念英語2,我們高中老師讓我們一直堅持在背的!還不錯! 另外,還有一個美國黑人領袖寫的那篇著名演講詞----<<我有一個夢想>>----也不錯哦!

⑥ 有哪些適合高中生閱讀的英文散文可以推薦

我覺得高中提高閱讀就是選擇自己喜愛的領域找原版書看。一定不要名著，因為詞太難而且不太常用，當然死磕的大神可以堅持。
我推薦幾本我愛看的。
首先入門選擇

學生首選 ，口語化 簡單易懂也很有趣。重點是你有同感。
flat tire（原來車胎破了沒氣可以這樣表達）

⑦ 求適合高中生背誦的英語美文

Life is Like a Cafeteria A friend』s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe.
一個朋友的祖父從東歐到美國來。
After settling down at Ellis Island,
在埃利斯島安頓下來後
he went into a cafeteria in lower Manhattan to get something to eat.
他去曼哈頓一家抵擋的自助餐廳吃飯
He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order.
他在一張空桌子邊坐下，等待侍者拿來菜單。
Of course nobody did
沒有人來招呼他
Finally, a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him
最後，一位女士拿著滿滿一托盤食物走過來坐在他對面。
and informed him how a cafeteria worked.
並告訴他自助餐廳怎樣進餐的。
"Start out at that end," she said.
"Just go along the line and pick out what you want.
At the other end they』ll tell you how much you have to pay."
她說：「著手去做吧，去要你想要的東西，在餐廳的另外一端會有人告訴你該付多少錢。」
"I soon learned that』s how everything works in America,"
the grandfather told a friend.
他對一個朋友說：「接著我很快了解到這就是美國人的工作方式」
"Life』s a cafeteria here.
生活就像自助餐
You can get anything you want
你可以去要你想要的任何東西
as long as you are willing to pay the price.
只要你能付得起他們的價格
You can even get success,
你也可以想要成功
but you』ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you.
但是如果你什麼都不做等著別人能把它送到你身邊的話是永遠都不可能得到的
You have to get up and get it yourself."
你必須勤勞，必須自己去追求它。

⑧ 推薦些高中生用來背誦的英語文章，沒親身背過上網復制過來的繞道！

新概念英語，第二第三冊的文章都可以用來背
其中包含所有高中涉及的語法
單詞我不能保證，因為我沒堅持下來
如果四本你都學過了，英語絕對不是問題

⑨ 請問有什麼英語美文值得高中生去背誦的

看你這個「英語美文」的范圍咯，
要是考試類的，就新概念，我們學校高中就上新概念英語（人教版只是看下單詞和閱讀語法），應付高考都沒問題，4冊都有4級內容了。
要是想讓你的語感特好，說實話，看英語報紙是最好的。21St Century,Daily China，都是不錯的（個人經驗，其他就確實沒時間看了）。既有時事又是很標準的運用。
如是單純想要語法用詞上的美感，就看那個英語廣場的那個雜志，就是專收美文的。

⑩ 適合高中生背誦的一篇英語短文

YOUTH 塞繆爾·厄爾曼 Samuel Ullman

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 st.

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.