高中生英语演讲比赛稿精彩20篇

As we all know, "Failure is the mother of success." But few people can really understand what the saying means.

In the world, I am sure that no one dare say he hasn't met any trouble all his life. So we must face failure. In fact, failure is not fearful, but important thing is how to face it correctly. Facing failure, people will never take their fate lying down. They will try their best to work harder and harder until at last they succeed.

Not being courageous to face setbacks, people have no chance to enjoy the pleasure of success. So they have nothing to do but feel sad and empty all day and all night. In fact, they lose the chance of success themselves.

My friend, whenever in trouble, please remember, "Failure is the mother of success."

我们都知道，“失败是成功之母”。但很少有人能真正理解这句话的意思。

在这个世界上，我相信没有人敢说他在生活中还没有遇到任何麻烦，所以我们必须面对失败。事实上，失败并不可怕，重要的是如何正确面对它。敢于面对失败，人们将不再被命运打倒。他们越来越努力工作直到最后成功。

不敢面对挫折，人们也就没有机会享受成功的喜悦。他们会无所事事而感到伤心和整天整夜的空虚。事实上，他们丧失了成功的机会。

我的朋友，无论何时你遇到了困难，请记住：“失败是成功之母。”

if you want to understand adversity, take two identical acorns from the

same oak tree and plant them in two different locations. plant the first in the

middle of a dense forest, and the other on a hill by itself.

要是你想理解什么是逆境，就去拿两颗从同一棵树上摘下来年龄相同的橡树果，并且把它们种到不同的地方。第一颗种在浓密的树林当中，而另外一颗则单独种在一座山上。

here's what will happen. the oak standing on a hillside is exposed to every

storm and gale. as a result its roots plunge deep into the earth and spread in

every direction, even wrapping themselves around giant boulders. at times it may

seem the tree isn't growing fast enough—but the growth is happening underground.

it's as if the roots know they must ported the tree from the threatening

elements.

事情的结果便是这样。那颗长在山上的橡树经历了大风大雨，结果它的根深深地扎进了泥土中间，并不断向四周扩张，甚至把自己置身于巨大的石块当中。有时它可能看起来长的不是很快，但这时它却在地下悄悄生长着，好像它的根知道自己必须快速生长来保护树木免受自然危害的影响。

everyone has his ownunderstanding of young，it is a period of time of beauty and wonders，only after you have experienced the sour ，sweet ，bitter and salty can you really become a person of significance.thre time of young is limitted，it may pass by without your attention，and when you discover what has happened ，it is always too late.grasping the young well means a better time is waiting for you in the near future，or the situation may be opposite .

having a view on these great men in the history of hunmanbeing，they all made full use of their youth time ，to do things that are useful to society，to the whole mankind，and as a cosquence ，they are remembered by later generations，admired by everyone.so do something in the time of young，although you may not get achievements as these greatmen did ，though not for the whole word，just for youeself，for those around!

the young is just like blooming flowers，they are so beautiful when blooming，they make people feel happy，but with time passing by，after they withers ，moet people think they are ugly.and so it is the same with young，we are enthusiastic when we are young，then we may lose our passion when getting older and older.so we must treasure it ，don't let the limitted time pass by ，leaving nothing of significance.

译文：

告别童年，我们步入了另一个重要的时间，在年轻的步伐，面对新的情况，处理不同的问题

每个人都有自己观点的年轻人，这是一段美丽和奇迹，只有在你经历了酸，甜，苦，咸，你真的能成为青年significance.thre时间人实业公司，它可能没有经过你注意，当你发现发生了什么事，它总是太late.grasping年轻也意味着一个更好的时间是在不久的将来等着你，或情况可能正好相反。

在过去这些伟大的人的观点，他们都充分利用了自己的青春时光，做一些对社会是有益的，对整个人类，作为一个cosquence，他们被后人所铭记，由everyone.so钦佩做好在青年的时候，虽然你可能不得到成就这些greatmen做，但不是整个世界，只为自己，为周围的人!

年轻就像盛开的花朵，他们是如此美丽盛开的时候，他们让人们感到满意，但随着时间的推移，后肩，酩的人认为他们是ugly.and所以它是对青年一样，我们的热情我们年轻的时候，那么我们可能失去我们的激情在逐渐老化，所以我们一定要珍惜它，不要让有限的时间过去了，没有留下任何的意义。

Good morning/afternoon, Dear teachers and my friends. I’m a student from No.2 middle school of Qugou. My name is Zhao Bingjie. I’m very glad to stand here to make a short speech for you. Today my speech topic is “embrace the dream”.

Many people have a dream about the future besides me. I had a beautiful dream since I was a young little girl. I really want to be an outstanding writer like Guo Jingming in the future, because I liked reading very much when I was a child. So, I practice writing articles in my free time, by doing that I feel very comfortable. I love my dream and I will try my best to make my dream come true.

It’s about my dream, what about you? Do you have a dream? Do you think everyone has their own dreams? In fact, you are wrong. Many people never thought about future and what they will be like. They never have a dream . It’s not good for them. Only have dreams, then we can know what we should do for our dreams and try our best to make them true. So, it’s important and necessary to have a dream.

Someone once said that success comes from a dream. So, fellow students, let’s have a dream, and embrace the dream. Then, we will have a beautiful tomorrow!

My speech is over, thanks for your listening.

Today smoking is a widespread habit ali over the world. Not only the old, the youth, but also middle school students have been engaged in smoking. Many of them think that smoking is a smart symbol.

However, smoking is harmful to one’s ,health. It contributes a lot of lung cancer, from which many people have died in the past years. It can also cause many other diseases. In a word, if you smoke, you do have a much greater chance of losing your health. Furthermore, scientific research shows that smoking is not only harmful to smokers themselves, but also a threat to public health, especially to women and children. Therefore, many countries have made laws forbidding smokers to smoke m public places such as cinemas, stations, hospitals, and so on Giveup smoking! If you don’t smoke, don’t start. Give upsmoking for the sake of your health, for the sake of your family, and for the sake of the whole world.

a dream from beyond

i was sound asleep. my grandfather appeared in a dream. he asked why i had never visited him and grandma at the cemetery. he said that even my mom hadn’t visited since october 4 (grandma’s birthday). he told me that, when i was young, i had walked out into a pond and slipped under water. he had rescued me. he said grandma was supposed to be watching me, but that she had gotten sick all of a sudden and was throwing up. it was probably the fresh blackberries they had picked and eaten earlier. grandma had a bad stomach.

my parents were out on a boat in the pond. they did not know that grandpa had saved me until they got back to shore. i was in a towel and my clothes were drying on bushes. my brown and white buster brown shoes were also soaked. i was only three years old, grandpa said. my parents were angry at first, but when they saw that grandma was still feeling sick, they forgave her.

grandpa told me that we had a picnic after that. the four of us ate some chicken, potato salad, and homemade cookies. we drank lemonade. then grandpa took me for a walk in the woods (i sat on his shoulders). i saw some daisies, and we picked them. when we returned, i presented three daisies to mom and three to grandma, who was finally feeling better. grandpa said to bring some daisies to the gravesite. then i woke up.

the next day, i called my mom. “do you remember me walking into the pond and grandpa rescuing me?”

“my god! who told you about that?”

“you mean, it really happened?”

“yes, but your father and i never told you about it because grandma swore us to silence. even though it wasn’t her fault, she felt that she had failed in her responsibility, and never wanted you to know about it. my goodness, that was so long ago. who told you this?”

“mom, did i go for a walk with grandpa and return with daisies for you and grandma?”

“okay, i get it. you and your dad are playing some kind of prank. okay, it’s very funny. now, quit it.”

“this is no prank, mom. grandpa told me this in a dream last night.”

“it still sounds like a prank.”

“no, i’m serious. he told me that grandma had a reaction to blackberries. he said i was wearing brown and white buster brown shoes. he said i gave you and grandma daisies.”

“oh, my god. your father would never remember all this. it must be daddy! did he say anything about visiting his gravesite?”

“yes, that was his problem. he wanted me to visit them. he also said you had not visited since—”

“—since mom’s birthday six years ago?”

“well, not—”

“i’ve got to get over there right now!”

“wait for me! i’m coming with you, and i’ve got to bring those daisies. maybe we’d better start going every year, huh, mom?”

“yes. there’s no telling what grandpa might tell you next time.”

I love hometown

My hometown is not known, but in my eyes, the rivers and mountains of his home, plants are the most beautiful. Do not believe? Listen to me then to introduce the Four Seasons bar!

Spring dream home just as the baby woke up, it looked Zhang curious eyes of the world: the swaying willow of hair, grass from the land out of the small head, is also pressing wildflowers River from the ground up, the light emitting fragrance. Flying Swallow flew back from the South, and chirp in the branches and calls, and the spring air is filled with every corner.

Summer, the home was surrounded by lush trees, thick foliage in brilliant sunshine all the more lush. Cicadas in the trees kept the "cicada, cicada" singing, old people leisurely sitting under a tree, slowly shaking fans, and children eating ice cream, chasing each other in the streets, playing, and to add hot summer endless vitality.

Fall, like put home a golden dress, blowing in the wind, the leaf pieces flying in the air. The golden fields of corn, rice farmersuncle's face shine with the joy of the harvest, from the height look down, ah! Good a golden world.

Winter, the snowflakes floating in the air to put on a white home.the streets of the thick snow, step up a "creak" sound, children with snowmen, snowball fights, and that the laughter turned into a cold winter's well-being of the park.

I love the rivers and mountains of his home, plants, love every one of its sky, every inch of land, each stream. It is willing to develop faster, and build the United States and more. I feel my hometown proud!

演讲主题：请加入志愿者行列吧——奉献即有收获

冠军：陈星，南京大学，在2007 年国际演讲比赛上获“最佳非英语国家选手奖”

2007 Session, Hong Kong Topic: Giving is Receiving - Personal Growth in Volunteer Work Champion: Chen Xing, Nanjing University

Caring For Nature--Overpopulation What is nature? It’s everything that exists in the world independently of people, such as pants and animals, earth and rocks, and the weather.

Now more and more people are focusing on the nature.

It is no doubt that the nature is important to every human being.

No nature, no life.

Because of the supplies of the nature, we have lived happily for a long time.

And we started to gain every thing available from the nature.

And this lasted so long a time.

Today, people have discovered that the nature around is getting worse and worse.

What is threatening the nature? Air and water pollution, overharvesting of plant and animal species, overpopulation and so on.

Overpopulation is the biggest source of pollution.

Let’s take overpopulation as an example.

What does overpopulation feel like? When we move slowly through the city in a tazi.

When we enter a crowded slum district.

When the temperature is high and when the air is thick with dust and smoke.

The streets are crowded with people.

The streets seem alive with people.

People eating.

People washing.

People talking.

People sleeping.

People visiting each other, arguing and screaming.

People relieving themselves.

People pushing their hands through the taxi windows, begging.

People leading animals.

People, people, people, people.

As we drive slowly through the crowd, sounding the taxi’s horn, the dust, heat, noise and cooking fires made it like a scene from hell! I admit, frightening.

To the nature, overpopulation is a big problem.

More people, more pollution.

And the big population is threatening the nature every second.

The rapid rise in world population is not creating problems only for the developing countries.

The whole world faces the problem that raw materials are being used up at an increasing rate and food production can not keep up with the population increase.

People in rich countries make the heaviest demands on the world’s resources, its food, fuel and land, and cause the most pollution.

A baby born in the United States will use in his lifetime 30 times more of the world’s resources than a baby born in India.

Unless all the countries of the world take united action to deal with the population explosion there will be more and more people fighting for a share of less and less land, food and fuel, and the future will bring poverty, misery and war to us all

Children, you grabbed the small tadpoles right, you must know that tadpole grew up to become small frog, the frog can eat insects, so the frog is our human's good friends. We should protect it, not hurt it. But some hotels are also sold the frog meat? Once, dad and his friends took me to dinner. A waiter said: "you see, this is we store the launch of new specials, stir flogs ball". "Chicken is what ah?" I curiously ask, "chicken is the frog." The waiter said, with a smile. I was very angry, because they hurt our good friends-frog! Another thing, he makes a big inspiration. One day, when I finish school, saw a man at the school gate at little chicks must sell, and I will have mercy on them. Because the little chicks must first came to this world, away from the mother, away from the mother love and mother warm embrace, and this is what they faced starved to death, the risk of freezing to death. At that time I thought: we humans are so happy! When you see here, did you see to protect our human friends-animals!

I believe in our future Honorable Judges, fellow students: Good afternoon! Recently, ther is a heated debate in our society. The college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places. But will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? Will we be able to better the lives of others? Will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country? The cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort. But the cynics are wrong. The college students I see are eagerly learning about how to live independently. We help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money. The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades;

and we neglect the need for character cultivation. But again, the cynics are wrong. We care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. Last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer. As college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. We all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. I believe in all my fellow classmates. Though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. I believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. We are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. I believe in our future.

没有想象力就没有创造力

NO IMAGINATION, NO CREATIVITY

Dear teachers and students：

Good morning / afternoon / evening! My name is Liu zi yuan. The title of my speech is the relationship between creativity and imagination.

尊敬的老师、同学们大家早上/下午/晚上好!我叫刘子源。我演讲的题目是创造力和想象力之间的关系。

There is no creativity without imagination. With the development of the society, creativity becomes more and more important. People could not satisfy with ordinary life. So we need creativity to meet their requirements. We can see significance of the creativity from an example. The smart phone—iphone spread all over the world. That was the creativity of The Apple Inc. It is obvious that it will produce a bigger profit than common manufacturing. But, hao can we acquire creativity?

没有想象力就没有创造力。随着社会的发展，创造力变得越来越重要。人们已经不能满足于日常生活。所以我们需要不断的创新来满足他们的需求。通过一个例子我们可以知道创造力的意义。苹果智能手机的使用遍及全世界。这就是苹果公司的创新。很显然，这项创新产生了巨大的利润比起普通的制造业。但是我们怎样才能获得创造力?

I think the creativity roots in imagination. Albert Einstein said that imagination is important than knowledge. Because we should creative a thing that is never appeared, we need to image. Use all the things and information around us to think and then go to achieve it. Without the imagination of the Wright brothers , human could not complete the flying dreams. Without the imagination of the Alexander Graham Bell, we could not hear the voice from a distance. If the creativity can make the human progress, imagination will be the road to success. Where the imagination come from? Knowledge ? Experience ? practice? I consider that all of them are indispensable. It is often said that knowledge is power. So we should empower ourselves with knowledge. After that we need to obtain experience form. practice. These are the basis, and we must strengthen them to extend our imagination.

我认为创造力扎根于想象力。爱因斯坦曾经说过，想象力远远比知识更重要。因为我们要创造一个事物，以前从没有出现过的，因此我们需要想象。利用我们周围所有的事物以及信息去想象，然后去完成它。 没有莱特兄弟的想象力，人类就不能实现飞天的梦想;没有贝尔的想象力，我们就不能听到来自远方的声音。如果说创造力可以使人进步，那么想象力就是通向成功的道路。想象力来自哪里?知识?经验?还是实践?我觉得所有这些都是必不可少的。俗语有云：知识就是力量。所以我们首先应该用知识武装自己，然后我们需要从实践中获得经验。这些都是基础，我们必须用它们来扩展我们的思维。

As contemporary college students, we must shoulder the responsibility of the future of our motherland. What we need is not only the knowledge of the past, but also is the innovation of a new field. Our thought can not be bound by the old things. We should understand that an excellent nation is always full of creativity. So we must promote our imagination. There is no creativity without imagination. That’s all, thank you!

作为一个当代的大学生，我们需要肩负起祖国的未来。我不仅需要旧的知识，而且更要创新新的知识领域。我们的思想不能被旧知识所束缚。我们应该知道，一个优秀的民族永远是一个具有创新性的民族，所以我们必须提升我们的想象力。因为没有想象力就没有创造力。 演讲完毕，谢谢大家!

It is easy to describe success in terms of money, fame and reputation. But

I believe that success is not external. I believe that success comes from

within. My definition of success is to be true to yourself, and be true to

others. That means, that you must cherish your personal ideal even in the face

of adversity. I also believe that success is not discriminatory. Success is not

restricted to such a class of people, in fact, it may be achieved by any person

irrespective of his race, creed, gender and economic background. A good example

of success is that of Beethoven. He is one of the world's most famous composers,

yet he was deaf. He could not hear the majestic pieces of music that he created.

Yet, in the face of this adversity, he was able to maintain his ideals''that of

composing music.

To exemplify what success means to me, I pose a question to all of you.

What brings us together here today? I believe that it is the beauty of the

spoken word. The effect of pause and the sound of rhetoric are unique to the

spoken word. I believe the beauty of the spoken word is even stronger for those

who have difficulty in expressing themselves. These people are reclusive and had

their emotions hidden within them. I once went to Australia and I saw two

pictures, Once was drawn by a normal child, the other was drawn by a child with

social inhibitions. The picture drawn by the normal child was simple and plain.

The other was life'like, full of details and imagination. What this shows is

that these are ideas, emotions and feelings that are locked internally in these

children.

My ideal is to be the key, spreading the beauty of the spoken words to

these children. These children have been neglected, but I feel that I can and

should help these children to find themselves and be able to express

themselves.

I realize that this is a difficult task, and there are many obstacles on

the way. But I believe in my ideals and I will stick to them''even in the face

of adversity. We should never have a premature abortion of ideals'let the child,

let our ideals, stand the challenge. For a life without ideals is not

living.

Thank you!

尊敬的各位老师，亲爱的同学们：

大家好，我是来自环保社的周梦岩，今天很荣幸能站在这里，代表环保社社团发言。

首先，我先说一下我选择加入环保社的原因吧。目前就我国的目前形势来说，大学生环保社团在我国环境保护事业中发挥着重要作用。一方面，环保社通过开展各种形式的环保宣传和社会实践活动，增强了大学生的环保意识，提高了大学生的环保技能，培养了大学生的环保素质。另一方面，环保社很好地带动同学们关注环境保护，树立绿色文明意识和可持续发展意识。

下面我说一下加入我们社团的感受吧。这一学期来我对我们的环保协会真心的感到高兴和欣慰。首先，我们环保协会是由我们一群热爱大自然，热爱环保的大学生自发而起的一个公益性组织，力在保护大自然母亲，普及和提高和提高更多的人群的环保意识，在这里我学习到了关于保护环境的有关知识，让我更加明白了环保的重要性;另外，各位学长学姐对我们各位新生也特别的关心，在这里让我们感到了家的温暖。

然后，我想象大家提一点小小的建议。因为我深知环保的责任紧靠环保社成员的努力还是远远不够的，还需要大家的参与，所以希望以后的生活中保护环境能从我们每一个人做起。只有这样我们的校园才能更加洁净，我们的社会才能更加美丽!

谢谢大家，我的发言完毕。

Hello, dear judges! I'm **. Please look at my picure.

In my picture, there are two lovely rabbits. They are my pets.

Although a lot of people think that children should not have pets at home, because they're dirty,

However, in my opinion, children should have some pets at home, because when children learn to take care of the pets, they also learn how to love others.

In fact, I suggest every child have a pet at home and take care of it himself.

Otherwise, they cannot learn to love other people and animal.

Thank you!

演讲主题：我、我的祖国和世界

冠军：李舒，四川大学

1997 Session, Beijing Topic: Me, My Country and the World Champion: Li Shu, Sichuan University

21杯英语演讲比赛历届演讲主题 第三届•北京

演讲主题：从东方到西方——如何面对两种文化的冲撞?

冠军：梁励敏，北京外国语大学

1998 Session, Beijing Topic: The East and the West: Can We Live in Two Cultures? Champion: Liang Limin, Beijing Foreign Studies University

吴柏德，天主教辅仁大学选手，第18届中国日报社“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军，同时获得麦格希演讲艺术之星，Navitas最具自信演说奖，及海西文化大使。以下是读文网小编给大家整理的21世纪杯英语演讲比赛 吴柏德参赛讲稿，希望能帮到你!

I was seventeen, almost a senior in high school. I was riding my bike to school. I had taken a special route to pick up a gift, but that day, "the road less traveled by" led to disaster. Crossing a road, a drunk driver ran a red light, slammed into me, and shattered my left knee.

It made all the difference.

I was forced to postpone college, plunged into painful therapy . . . but eventually, I also learned much about life and myself. I found the strength to withstand adversity, learned compassion, and above all, I learned that the road not taken is not just about regrets or choices but also about the perpetual now and the always-coming future.

21世纪杯英语演讲比赛 吴柏德参赛讲稿

When I first studied Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” in middle school, I was unable to grasp its ambiguity. I always thought that Frost’s persona chooses “a road less traveled by” and lives life being subversive and irreverent. I was wrong. In the poem, both of the two roads that “diverged in a yellow wood” are actually “about the same.” But there has to be a choice, and sometimes, they it can be involuntary (as I learned the hard way). This makes me extremely thankful and resolute when I can make conscious choices and plan for the future, and so I know now that Frost's poem is also about "the road not [yet] taken."

For everyone, this means something slightly different. For me, it means constant vigilance, learning, and love. Our journey is hard, complex, and it often presents unexpected twists, but reflecting on the roads not taken and not yet taken each day gives us a little more strength and confidence. Life cannot and will not me perfect, and the truth is it will end. But as Willa Cather would say, “The end is nothing, the road is all.” The road not taken in the past, and the road not yet taken that lies ahead.

But about the present? It joints the past and the future. What then, is “the road not taken” in the perpetual now? Personally, I find an answer in these lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses”:

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Thank you.

The East and the West, Let’s enjoy the combination of the two cultures?

Kipling said:“East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall

meet!” But now, a century later, they have met.

They have met in business. They have met in education. They have met in the

arts. Some people will argue that these meetings will leave us with a choice

between east and west, but I believe that the best future lies in the creative

combination of both worlds. We can make western ideas, customs and technology

our own, and adapt them to our own use. We can enjoy the best of both worlds,

because our tradition is, above all, one of selecting the best and making it our

own.

I love Beijing and Hennan opera because it always reminds me of who I am.

But I am also a fan of pop music, especially English songs. So I have combined

eastern melody with western language. It is called western henna opera.

When two cultures meet, there may be things in one culture, which do not

fit into the tradition of the other. When this happens, we need to learn to

understand and respect the customs of another culture. Then there are certain

things some people may not like. To this, I will say, if you do not like it,

please try to tolerate it. To learn to tolerate what you personally don’t like

is a great virtue at a time when different cultures mix and merge. Before us,

there are two rivers, eastern and western cultures. At present, they may run in

different courses. But eventually, they will converge into the vast sea of human

culture.

Right now, I can see peoples of eastern and western cultures, standing side

by side, singing the Olympic theme song: we are hand in hand, heart to heart,

together we will shape a beautiful tomorrow! Thank you!

From Walls to Bridges

I'm studying in a city famous for its walls. All visitors to my city are

amazed by the imposing sight of the city walls, silhouetted by the setting sun

with gold and shining lines. With old, cracked bricks patched with lichen, the

walls are weather-beaten guards, standing still for centuries in protecting the

city.

Our ancestors liked to build walls. They built walls in Beijing, Xi'an,

Nanjing and many other cities, and they built the Great Wall, which snakes

through half of our country. They built walls to ward off enemies and evil

spirits. This tradition has been maintained to this day as we still have many

parks and schools walled off from the public. I grew up at the foot of the city

walls, and I've loved them since my childhood. For a long time, walls were one

of the most natural things in the world.

My perception, however, changed after a hiking trip to the Eastern Suburbs,

a scenic area of my city. My classmates and I were walking with some

international students. As we walked out of the city, we found ourselves flanked

by taller and taller trees, which formed a huge canopy above our heads. Suddenly

an international student asked me, "Where is the entrance to the Eastern

Suburbs?"

"We're already in the Eastern Suburbs," I replied.

He seemed taken aback, "I thought you Chinese have walls for everything."

His remark set off a heated debate. At one point, he likened our walled cities

to "jails," while I insisted that the Eastern Suburbs were one of the many

places in China that had no walls.

That debate had no winners, but I did learn a lot from this international

student. For instance, he told me that universities like Oxford and Cambridge

were not surrounded by walls; the campuses were just part of the cities. I have

to admit that we do have many walls in China, and as we are developing our

country, we must carefully examine them, whether they are physical or

intangible. We will keep some walls but tear down those that impede China's

development.

Let me give you an example.

A year ago, when I was working on a term paper, I needed a book on business

law and found a copy in the law school library. However, the librarian turned

down my request with a cold shoulder, saying, "You can't borrow this book, you

are not a student here." In the end, I had to spend 200 yuan buying a copy;

meanwhile, the copy in law school was gathering dust on the shelf.

At the beginning of this semester, I heard that my university has started

not only to unify its libraries but also link them up with libraries of other

universities, so my experience will not be repeated. Barriers will be replaced

by bridges. Through an inter-library loan system, we will have access to books

from any library. With globalization, with China integrated into the world, I

believe many of these intangible walls will be knocked down.

I know globalization is a controversial issue, and it is hard to say

whether it is good or bad. But one thing is for sure: it draws our attention to

China's tangible and intangible walls and forces us to examine their roles in

the modern world.

And how about the ancient walls in my city and other cities? Should we tear

them down? Just the opposite. My city, like Beijing and other cities, is

actually making a great effort to preserve the walls. These walls attract not

only historians and archeologists but also many schoolchildren trying to study

our history and cultural heritage. Walls have turned into bridges to our past

and to the rest of the world. If the ancient builders of these walls were still

alive today, they would be proud to see such great change in the role of their

walls. They are now bridges that link East and West, South and North, and all

countries of the world. Our cultural heritage will survive globalization.

I am a student from Xinhua High School in Chongqing，China. Informed that you have a vacancy for a student to serve as the spokesman for animals, I cannot resist my inner excitement,hoping to seize the opportunity to do something for animals .

In my mind，nothing can delight me so much as caring for animals. Wherever I go and whatever I do, I usually keep in mind that animals are angels from the heaven, which bring us endless comfort and pleasure. I have been a panda lover since my childhood. Panda is so lovely that brings fun to people and they are regarded as the treasure of our country. Unfortunately，such a rare species is now faced with the danger of being extinct。What I am eager to do is to raise people’s awareness of animal protection and appeal to more people to care for our earth companies.