“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军演讲稿

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facing this audience on the stage, i have the exciting feeling of participating in the march of history, for what we are facing today is more than a mere competition or contest. it is an assembly of some of china's most talented and motivated people, representatives of a younger generation that are preparing themselves for the coming of a new century.

i'm grateful that i've been given this opportunity, at such a historic moment, to stand here as a spokesman of my generation and to take a serious look back at the past 15 years, a crucial period for every one of us and for this nation as well.

though it is only within my power to tell about my personal experience, and only a tiny fragment of it at that, it still represents, i believe, the root of a spirit which has been essential to me and to all the people bred by the past 15 years.

in my elementary years, there was a little girl in the class who worked very hard but somehow could never do satisfactorily in her lessons.

the teacher asked me to help her, and it was obvious that she expected a lot from me. but as a young boy, restless, thoughtless, i always tried to evade her so as to get more time to enjoy myself.

one day before the final exam, she came up to me and said, "could you please explain this to me? i want very much to do better this time. " i started explaining, and finished in a hurry. pretending not to notice her still confused eyes, i ran off quickly. nat surprisingly, she again did very badly in the exam. and two months later, at the beginning of the new semester, word came of her death of blood cancer. no one ever knew about the little task i failed to fulfill, but i couldn't forgive myself. i simply couldn't forget her eyes, which seem to be asking, "why didn't you do a little more to help me, when it was so easy for you? why didn't you understand a little better the trust placed in you, so that i would not have to leave this world in such pain and regret?"

i was about eight or nine years old at that time, but in a way it was the very starting point of my life, for i began to understand the word "responsibility" and to learn to always do my duties faithfully and devotedly, for the implications of that sacred word has dawned on me: the mutual need and trust of people, the co-operation and inter-reliance which are the very foundation of human society.

later in my life, i continued to experience many failures. but never again did i feel that regret which struck me at the death of the girl, for it makes my heart satisfied to think that i have always done everything in my power to fulfill my responsibilities as best i can.

as i grew up, changed and improved by this incident and many other similar ones, i began to perceive the changes taking place around me and to find that society, in a way, was in its formative years like mys ……此处隐藏720个字…… computer too.” the girl finished her sentence perfectly with a serious smile. indeed how cute and innocent that smile was, but how seriously my heart was hurt. i was too frightened to listen to more answers like that.

ten years ago, at their age, i had a different answer: i would spend the last day of my life gazing at the face of my dear grandmother until i inscribed every detail of it onto my mind.

when grandmother was getting old and weak, my family bought her a telephone so i could save time and the trouble of traveling to her home by making phone calls instead. later we bought her a television so she could watch modern dramas by herself. then grandma must have been, we assumed, very contented and happy.

but i never really knew how grandma felt. she silently passed away without a word one night.when i heard about her death, a chilling pain pierced my empty heart. the pain grew even sharper as i tried to remember in detail exactly how grandma looked and i failed completely! how could i remember? i had not visited her for ages—it seemed like a century! my memories of her dissolved into thin air and leaked away like water.

even though i have a telephone, can she hear me now?

even though i might be on television, can she see me now?

even though i have modern telecommunications, can she still communicate with me now?

with all these “tele”s, i was powerless.

don’t people just love the word of “tele”, which means far away. indeed this is how modern technology has changed our world. but please don’t forget this other word with “tele”: telepathy:which refers to human beings’ inborn ability to

connect to our loved ones. our minds are supposed to read each other’s minds; our hearts are supposed to feel each other’s hearts — and fulfill these without any forms of tool!

but the moment i desperately struggled to remember grandmother’s face, the telepathy between her and me had shut down forever. with the help of modern technology, i killed our telepathy.

this shall never happen again! the “tele”s are great inventions. but “telepathy” gives them the warmth of a human face. let’s harness the power of television to excite our kids to develop their telepathy with nature? so that they can read the secret language of flowers. let’s make the telephone lines provoke us to preserve our telepathy with each other, so we can connect in a warm and feeling way. let technology keep our “telepathy” alive! we need to wake up and make this happen.

i told my grandma’s story to those young kids that day. they got very quiet. they asked me for a second chance to answer the question. they had come to a new understanding – that very moment they had made to me and to our future together, a dear promise.

thank you very much!