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洪晔：南京大学选手，第九届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军。演讲稿：The Doors that Are Open to Us
Good morning ladies and gentlemen:
The title of my speech today is “The Doors that Are Open to Us ”.The other day my aunt paid me a visit.She was overjoyed.“I got the highest mark in the mid-term examination!” she said.Don't be surprised!My aunt is indeed a student;to be exact, a college student at the age of 45.Last year, she put aside her private busine and signed up for a one-year, full-time management course in a college.“This was the wisest decision I have ever made,” she said proudly like a teenage girl.To her, college is always a right place to pick up new ideas, and new ideas always make her feel young.“Compared with the late 70s,” she says, “now college students have many doors.” My aunt cannot help but recall her first college experience in 1978 when college doors began to be re-opened after the Cultural Revolution.She was aigned to study engineering despite her desire to study Chinese literature, and a few years later, the government sent her to work in a TV factory.I was shocked when she first told me how she(had)had no choice in her major and job.Look at us today!So many doors are open to us!I believe there have never been such abundant opportunities for self-development as we have today.And my aunt told me that we should reach our goals by grasping all these opportunities.The first door I see is the opportunity to study different kinds of subjects that interest us.My aunt said she was happy to study management, but she was also happy that she could attend lectures on ancient Chinese poetry and on Shakespearean drama.As for myself, I am an English major, but I may also go to lectures on history.To me, if college education in the past emphasized specialization, now, it emphasizes free and well-rounded development of each individual.So all the fine achievements of human civilization are open to us.The second door is the door to the outside world.Learning goes beyond clarooms and national boundaries.My aunt remembers her previous college days as monotonous and even calls her generation “frogs in a well.” But today, as the world becomes a global village, it is important that our neighbors and we be open-minded to learn with and from each other.I have many fellow international clamates, and I am applying to an exchange program with a university abroad.As for my aunt, she is planning to get an MBA degree in the United Kingdom where her daughter, my cousin, is now doing her master's degree in biochemistry.We are now taking the opportunity to study overseas, and when we come back, we'll put to use what we have learnt abroad.The third door is the door to lifelong learning.As new ideas appear all the time, we always need to acquire new knowledge, regardle of our age.Naturally, my aunt herself is the best example.Many of my aunt's contemporaries say that she is amazingly up-to-date for a middle-aged woman.She simply responds, “Age doesn't matter.What matters is your attitude.You may think it's strange that I am still going to college, but I don't think I'm too old to learn.” Yes, she is right.Since the government removed the age limit for college admiions in 2001, there are already some untraditional students, sitting with us in the same clarooms.Like these people, my aunt is old but she is very young in spirit.With her incredible energy and determination, she embodies both tradition and modernity.The doors open to us also pose challenges.For instance, we are faced with the challenge of a balanced learning, the challenge of preserving our fine tradition while learning from the West, and the challenge of learning continuously while carrying heavy responsibilities to our work and family.So, each door is a test of our courage, ability and judgment, but with the support of my teachers, parents, friends and my aunt, I believe I can meet the challenge head on.When I reach my aunt's age, I can be proud to say that I have walked through dozens of doors and will, in the remainder of my life, walk through many more.Poibly I will go back to college, too.Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.魏香君：复旦大学选手，第九届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛亚军。
演讲稿：Prepared Speech
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience.Today I would like to begin with my personal experience.Before getting enrolled in college, I had been bombarded with suggestions.“Take courses of different subjects.Broaden your horizon.” my high school teacher advised.“Dive into campus activities.Have fun!” a friend said.She was well seasoned in Student Union affairs.“Work hard.Get as many A's as poible.Make your transcript look good!” my cousin offered.By the way, she was a senior busy hunting for a job.As for my mom, she simply said, “Take care.Don't be too hard on yourself.”
Composed but hopeful, I eagerly set out for an exciting life at college.Yet very soon, as I pondered these golden rules, I was overwhelmed and bewildered.Such advice all made perfect sense.Yet I couldn't figure out what should top my priority list.My first semester at college was stimulating in a somewhat anarchic way.I rushed from library to club, from claroom to tennis court, “enjoying”, as it were, the freshne of being a freshman at the expense of my sleep.Little by little, however, I became overtaxed and eventually fell victim to the “Yu Men” syndrome-“Yu Men” being streful misery.Literally, I was overwrought from the preures of work and life at college.I wanted to experience and excel.I wanted everything.Emotionally, I was like an insatiable kid whose hand had got stuck in the candy jar with way too many sweets.Luckily I didn't suffer for too long from my “get-everything” malaise.Recently, Mr.Tom Freston, president of the media company MTV came to my school.His talk inspired me.He proudly told us that the average age of his employees is only 28.What's the secret behind the succe of his young team? “Sagacity,” he told us, “In other words, being conscious of what one is doing and what one is able to do.”
Exactly!As a freshman about to be a sophomore, I realize now that our time and stamina don't allow us to extend ourselves in all directions.So the moral responsibility of college education is to teach students the art of making important choices.No matter how hard the growing pains are, mastering this art is at the heart of every undergraduate's succe, whether in school now or in life later on.So I am learning to make such choices.Joining this competition, for instance, has been one.I've wanted to fully experience this contest, to make friends, to discover what my age peers believe and to stretch myself in new and unexpected ways.I imagine this is true for most contestants here today.But to do so, we've chosen to set aside pleasures, such as watching TV series “Friends” and karaoke evenings, so we could invest more time in more reading, speaking, and study.Yet this competition, by forcing us to take charge of our decisions, has surely helped us define our values, find out what we're capable of doing, and learn what best suits our individual development.I believe this knowledge of one's own caliber is the most valuable, integral and longest lasting leon for students in this increasingly competitive world.As for the challenges and opportunities for us, they will be determined by how adequately our education trains us to gain a clear perception of ourselves, and thereby to make sensible choices that follow.College education, as British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said, “should be energizing as the poet of our dreams and the architect of our purposes.” Such purpose, self-discipline and vision all hinge on the art of choice-making.As I look back on the advice received those very first days on campus, I no longer feel perplexed, because I now have my own guideline: Make choices that lead to a clearer vision of who I am, what I can do, and how I may best tap my potential.The horizon is now wide but distinct.And the taste already feels sweet.Thank you!钟雨柔：清华大学选手，第九届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛季军。
演讲稿：Prepared Speech
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.At present, my fellow students and I have before us great personal and educational opportunities.At the same time, we are running into a variety of challenges.Today's college education provides us with opportunities for bringing out the creativity and talent that we have within us.This is nurtured both by our learned profeors, and by the growing dimension of knowledge sources, such as the World Wide Web and multimedia sources.Our educational experience is being transformed both within and beyond the traditional claroom.However, challenges still exist.At the end of every semester, students in my university are required to fill out a questionnaire as a review of the previous semester.The questions usually cover a broad range of college life, from curriculum adjustment to canteen service.And almost every time, the questionnaire includes one eential question, that is: As a college student, what are your major challenges? And almost every answer includes two aspects: studying and profeional.These two challenges will remain our preoccupations as long as we live in such a competitive world.A series of challenges in our studies start from almost the beginning of our freshman year.We may wonder whether we've chosen the right major.We may wonder if the extracurricular activities add credits to our studies.We may work our heads off to get a glorious A, because B is already mediocre and C is almost unacceptable.Later on we may be competing with our hardworking, intelligent peers, including our best friends to get into an ideal graduate school.All of these sound so familiar and they have somehow made our college education so goal-obseed that we sometimes fail to fully enjoy our educational experience.Apart from challenges in learning, there are also profeional challenges.The competitive world today has also brought about the “Knowledge Economy,” which requires the effective use of knowledge for economic and social development, and also requires skilled and multi-oriented students with a marketable vocational sense.Therefore, sophisticated calculations upon the value of a university degree are being made.Graduate employability statistics are being scrutinized.Programs like resume writing and interview skills are seen as a must.Again as I've said above, when profeional concern dominates our college education, we may lose the eence of our educational experience.Indeed, facing these two challenges, how can students manage to be what the employers seek and at the same time to enjoy a valuable, insightful and rewarding educational experience?
For me, the solution to the problem lies in what can be called an “Educational Synthesis”.I remember attending a lecture by Profeor Tu Weiming, director of Harvard Yenching Institute.In his lecture, Profeor Tu argued that the ideal state of college education is to arrive at a synthesis, a combination of specific knowledge, humanistic insight and sense of social responsibility.Admittedly, there is much to do to bridge the gap between our educational experience in college and the social employment in society.“Educational synthesis” can help us narrow the gap.Fortunately, today's college education provides us with such a diverse world.From this diverse world we may choose what we want to form our own educational synthesis.Ladies and gentlemen, as Charles Dickens once commented upon the time of the French Revolution, “It was the best of times;it was the worst of times.” And I'm afraid so it is with our time.I believe, once we achieve our own educational synthesis, we will be able to transform our challenges into opportunities.We will be able to see the best time of our life.And more importantly, we will be able to see the best time of our nation.Thank you.
