高中英语语法填空:短文题型基础练习 Test 1

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 　61　 (depth) springs of life.

Youth 　62　 (mean) 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 　63　 (desert) our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, 　64　 to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back 　65　 dust.

　66　 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 　67　 is 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 　68　 , and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of 　69　 (pessimistic), then you've grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, 　70　 (catch) waves of pessimism, there's hope you may die young at 80.