1、大學生英語競賽演講稿it is human nature that all of us should be fond of beauty. everybody was born with a heart for beauty.today in china,with the rising of our living standard, peoples requirement of beauty has been heightened accordingly. some people spare no money or energy on beautiful clothes, fashionabl

2、e hair styles,the decoration of their houses and even the improvement of their looks. but it seems to me,allthese are more or less confined to the beauty in appearance,or rather,the outward beauty.in my opinion,we shouldnt only pay attention to beautiful appearance and neglect the beautification of

3、the mind and what we are after should be the perfect unity of the outward beauty and the inner beauty. as we all know,so far as objects and animals are concerned,there is only beautiful appearance to be mentioned, but to us humanbeings, although the outward beauty really matters, the inner beauty is

4、 much more important. this was confirmed by a famous russian writer in words much like this: a person isnot lovely for being beautiful but beautiful for being lovely.here, id like to quote two typical instances and im sure, my dear friends,from them youll find out what real beauty is.recently i lear

5、ned from the radio an unpleasant incident about a well known singer. she is very charming with a sweet beautiful voice and very famous for singing the song.devotion of love. not long ago,she was invited to zhejiang province to give performance. the moment she was to appear on the stage,she suddenly

6、asked for more reward. worse still,after her request was satisfied, she didnt begin to sing at once. instead,she took her time to count all the money piece by piece. thus she kept the audience waiting for half an hour. so when she at last showed up and started to sing devotion of love,a man rose up

7、from his seat and shouted at her,you dont have any devotion of love. you are not qualified to sing this song ! hearing this, the singer stopped singing and began to shout abuses with her finger pointed at the man. at this time the whole audience burst into an uproar.how disappointed her keen listene

8、rs were when they learned this! it is the singer herself who spoiled her beautiful image in the eyes of others.now, im coming to another true story. its about a poor, ordinary looking old woman. she was a widow without any children, living barely from hand to mouth by picking odds and ends from rubb

9、ish heaps. however,she took in more than ten homeless orphans successively and managed to bring them up. every day she labored from morning till night. in order to earn as much money as possible to raise the children and to keep them in school,she even went to a hospital regularly to sell her blood.

10、 she got so weak for the loss of blood that she sometimes fell in a faint on her way home.when asked why she chose to burden herself with so many children,she smiled and simply answered,oh,i love children and i like to have their company.though the old woman was poor materially, she was full of affe

11、ction and rich in spirit. she was loved dearly by her children. she was also highly appreciated by the local government, and truly respected by people in her community.maybe you cant help wondering, what makes that ordinary woman so extraordinary? it is nothing else but her inner beauty, her true de

12、votion of love without any thought of rewarding. what a sharp contrast there is between the great woman and the selfish singerso,to answer the question what is real beauty?, i declare definitely,it is the beauty lying in ones heart of hearts and embodied in his actions and deeds,that is,the inner he

13、auty!i regain confidenceby li jun (李軍青島海洋大學)(2020年11月下旬，在上海舉行的第七屆21世紀愛立信杯英語演講比賽華東地區比賽中獲得第一名)專家點評:本演講語言較流暢，從具體事件人手，將主題升華，催人奮進。i received a devastating blow to my self-confidence in the first interview of my college years. i applied to be a host in our student acting troupe and felt confident that i w

14、ould be accepted. but one of the panel members told me: you seem inadequate and you are a little vertically-challenged. my life has never been the same since. i used bigger heels to complement my height and psychological maneuvers and tricks to hide my lack of confidence. but no matter how hard i tr

15、ied to look the part, there was still something missing.as president of english club, i organized the rehearsal of snow white for an english party. unfortunately, we could not find an actor to be the last dwarf. it had to be someone who was humorous by nature and fluent in english. suddenly, all eye

16、s turned to me, and i knew i would have to be the dwarf. to my great surprise and delight, once on stage, i was totally absorbed in the performance and my humorous nature was put to full use. as the dwarf, i was a big hit.yes, each of us is only one among millions of others, but each of us is an ind

17、ividual and each of us is unique. cultivating our individuality will transform our lives, making of them a kaleidoscope of new colors and textures.a world deprived of diversity would be a bland and boring place. the real tragedy is not being short or shy or ugly, but having your identity lost in a w

18、orld in which everyone is a clone of a model cool boy or a flawless charming girl.given a choice, i would rather be ugly than live in such a world. id rather be a genuine dwarf accompanying a snow white than be a snow white among nothing but snow whites. i would rather be myself. i would contribute

19、my individual and unique colors to create a more diverse universe. please, be yourself.good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. today i would like to begin with a story.there was once a physical 1) therapist who traveled all the way from america to africa to do a 2) census about mountain 3) gorillas. t

20、hese gorillas are a main attraction to tourists from all over the world; this put them severely under threat of 4) poaching and being put into the zoo. she went there out of curiosity, but what she saw strengthened her determination to devote her whole life to fighting for those beautiful creatures.

21、 she witnessed a scene, a scene taking us to a place we never imaged weve ever been, where in the very depth of the african rainforest, surrounded by trees, flowers and butterflies, the mother gorillas 5) cuddled their babies.yes, thats a memorable scene in one of my favorite movies, called gorillas

22、 in the mist, based on a true story of mrs. dian fossey, who spent most of bet lifetime in rwanda to protect the ecoenvironment there until the very end of her life.to me, the movie not only presents an unforgettable scene but also acts as a 6) timeless reminder that we should not develop the touris

23、t industry at the cost of our ecoenvironment.today, we live in a world of prosperity but still threatened by so many new problems. on the one hand, tourism, as one of the most promising industries in the 21st century, provides people with the great opportunity to see everything there is to see and t

24、o go any place there is to go. it has become a lifestyle for some people, and has turned out to be the driving force in gdp growth. it has the magic to turn a backward town into a wonderland of prosperity. but on the other hand, many problems can occur-natural scenes arent natural anymore. deforesta

25、tion to heat lodges is devastating nepal. oil spills from tourist boats are polluting antarctica. tribal people are forsaking their native music and dress to listen to u2 on walkman and wear nike and reeboks.all these 7) appalling(令人震驚的) facts have brought us to the realization that we can no longer

26、 stand by and do nothing, because the very thought of it has been 8) eroding(侵蝕) our resources.encouragingly, the explosive growth of global travel has put tourism again in the spotlight, which is why the united nations has made 2020 the year of ecotourism, for the first time to bring to the worlds

27、attention the benefits of tourism, but also its capacity to destroy our ecoenvironment.now every year, many local ecoenvironmental protection organizations an: receiving donations-big notes, small notes or even coins-from housewives, 9) plumbers(水管工人), ambulance drivers, salesmen, teachers, children

28、 and 10) invalids(殘疾人), some of them can not afford to send the money but they do. these are the ones who drive the cabs, who nurse in hospitals, who are suffering from ecological damage in their neighborhood. why? because they care. because they still want their mother nature back. because they kno

29、w it still belongs to them.this kind of feeling that i have, ladies and gentlemen, is when it feels like it, smells like it, and looks like it, its all coming from a scene to remember, a scene to recall and to cherish.the other night, as l saw the moon linger over the land and before it was sent int

30、o the invisible, my mind was filled with songs. i found myself humming softly, not to the music, but to some- thing else, someplace else. a place remembered, a place untouched, a field of grass where no one seem to have been except the deer.and all those unforgettable scenes strengthened the feeling

31、 that its lime for us to do something, for our own and our coming generation. once again, i have come to think of mrs. dian fossey be- cause its with her spirit, passion, courage and strong sense of our ecoenvironment that we are taking our next step into the world.and no matter who we are, what we

32、do and where we go, in our mind, theres always a scene to remember, a scene worth our effort to protect it and fight for it.thank you very much.thanks,contestant#18.the topic for your impromptu speech is:which is more important for you: knowledge from books or personal experience? answer: thank you.

33、 i remember, on my very first day of my beloved university, one of my professors said to me,from now on, youll be on a journey between who you think you are and who yo can be.the key is to allow yourself to continue the journey in the ocean of the books.and i do learn a lot from books: i know the ge

34、ometry of euclid, logic ofaristotle, fable of aesop known to children around the world. well, no offense to all those great authors of the books, but during my three years at my university, i do realize that personal experience through practice means more to me. as we are in this global information

35、age where both economic growth and individual opportunity are based on ideas, a commitment to providing all human beings the golden opportunity to develop themselves is so vital, not only to the people here, but all around. as we are in this transformational age where communications and commerce are

36、 global, investments are mobile, technology is almost magical, and the ambition for a better life is now universal, and i think this is why we are here today. we want to earn our personal experience through practicing our oral english, sharing our opinions of tourism and ecology with all the judges

37、and audience here. and i think we are so lucky to be alive at this moment of the history. never before have our nation enjoyed so much prospertity and so much social progress with so little internal crises.and never before have our young people had so much great opportunity to practice ourselves and

38、, therefore, have a profound obligation to build a more perfect nation of our ancestors dream. and i think our government had provided us young people with the tools and condition to build the future of our dreams. even if we know some rules, some regulations, or experiences from our books, we still

39、 simply cannot graft it onto todays busier, more impersonal,complicated world. instead, our challenges is to arrive at a consensus values and common vision of what we can do today individually andcollectively to build a strong family and strong community, and above all, make the world a better place

40、 for us to live. thank you very much. contestant#18, in your speech, you talked about ecotourism. could you explain to us difference between ordinary tourists and e-tourists, or ecotourists?answer: thank you for your question. and i think the key issue is the differences between our awareness. fot e

41、xample, if you want to go to a place to have a trip, enjoy your trip. and i think before you get on board, get on the bus, you can have the awareness that im not a polluter, but an environment keeper. were not go to all those scenic spots to estroy all those beautiful scenes but we to appreciate the mother nature giving us so much things. thank you very much.contestant #18,now that information technology is becoming more and more accessible to people in china, do you think books will become less and less important?ans