圣约翰堂英语角第一届背诵比赛(中级组)Word文档格式.doc

1、I Need a Hug 我需要拥抱第三篇：Discovering Your Life Purpose实现人生目标第四篇：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

2、 gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, 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,

3、 I gain nothing.Love is patient; love is kind; love is not 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 a

4、ll things.Love never ends. l 第二篇 ：When was the last time 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

5、 relieve stress. A loving hug builds trust in a relationship, 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

6、 that everyone needs eight hugs a day. If that seems like 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 teache

7、r, pianist, world traveler, baker or doctor.Dreaming motivated 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

8、that you imagine might happen. There are no limits. Once 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 t

9、hey are realistic.Perhaps you want to change something about 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 hav

10、e a deadline. Then work toward that deadline. You will know 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

11、must take lessons and practice. It is not always easy, but 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

12、 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 e

13、xists 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

14、 is in every human beings heart the lure of wonders, the 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 l

15、ong as you are young. When your aerials are down, and your 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 time 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 t