大学英语四级作文训练题及范文

　　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 vigor 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.① In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it is receiving messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from God, you are young.②

　　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.

　　词汇斟酌

　　imagination n. 想象力，幻觉

　　dispositional a. 有某种性情的

　　cowardice n. 怯懦 胆小

　　appetite n. 胃口，食欲

　　enthusiasm n. 热情，积极性

　　wrinkle n. 皱纹;v. 起皱

　　aerial n. 天线

　　cynicism n. 愤世嫉俗，玩世不恭

　　pessimism n. 悲观，悲观主义

　　optimism n. 乐观，乐观主义

　　电脑科技的发展体现在社会生活的方方面面，教育作为创造智慧的第一生产线也受到了这种普遍趋势的影响。笔记本电脑已经悄悄进军大学校园。

　　Laptops Enter into Campus

　　Laptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them everywhere. They connect people to their work place. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.

　　Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program allowing students to study schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are a part of a $10 million computer program at Westlake. Students with laptops will also have access to the Internet.① In addition, they will be able to use e-mail to “speak” with their teachers, classmates, or families.② However, the most important part of the program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it anywhere they like!

　　Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher education officials are studying how laptops can help students.

　　At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff uses the computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, “He ere we are in the middle of Virginia and we’re giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything.”

　　词汇斟酌

　　?laptop n. 膝上型电脑，便携式电脑，笔记本电脑

　　?workable a. 可使用的

　　?desktop n. 桌上型电脑

　　?portable a. 手提的，便携的