曹丰
2020-03-01 16:31:47 来源：范文大全收藏下载本文
Our Future: A Battle between Dreams and Reality Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen: When I was in the primary school, I have a dream.I want to invent a device which could bring you from one place to another in no time at all.When I was in the secondary school, my dream was to study in my ideal university.And when eventually I got into the university, my dream was to graduate.How pathetic! When we grow up, we dream le and become more realistic.Why? Why do we have to change our dreams, so, so in order to let it be \"fulfilled\"? Why do we have to surrender to the so-called \"reality\"? What IS the reality actually? Ladies and gentlemen, the reality is not real.It is a barrier keeping us from all the poible fantasies.Flying, for example, had been a dream to mankind for thousands of years.A hundred years ago, \"man could not fly\" was still regarded as the \"reality\".Now if that was really the reality, what did the Wright brothers do? How did some of you get to Macau? Only when we believe that the reality is not real can we soar with our dreams.People say that our future is a battle between the reality and our dreams.And if, unfortunately, Mr.Reality wins this war, then I see no future of mankind at all.AIDS will never be curable as this IS the reality; People living in the undeveloped countries will suffer from starvation forever as this IS the reality; Disputes among different countries would never be settled as this misunderstandings and intolerance IS the reality.Ladies and gentlemen, how many of you have a dream of being able to make a lot of money? Please raise your hands.Oh, quite a number of you! Actually, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a dream, but a task.Every one of us has to make a living, right? Anyway I hope your task will be accomplished.How many of you think that you have already fulfilled your dream and that you don\'t dream anymore? Dear adjudicators, what do you think? C.S.Lewis once said, \"You are never too old to dream a new dream.\" So for our future, please dream and be unrealistic.Now that I am a university student, my goal is to graduate with excellences.But at the same time, I have a dream deeply rooted in our future.One day, people living in the areas now sweltering with the horror of wars will be able to sit with their families and enjoy their every moment.One day, people from the rich countries are willing to share what they have with those from the poor countries and those from the poor countries will eventually be able to make their own happy living themselves.One day, different cultures in this age of globalization will coexist with tolerance and the unfriendly confrontations among them will be eliminated.One day, the globe will share the dream with me and we will all contribute to making our dream come true.One day, our dream will defeat the reality! Thank you very much.
第十一届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛亚军——吴相臣 吴相臣
天津师范大学
Our Future: the Garden of One Flower or Many Flowers I have a friend who just started his career as a teacher in a primary school.Weeks ago, he asked me to raise a topic for his mid-term composition test.I was curious why he chose me to give a topic, because he is a teacher himself.He said that he wanted something the students can really show their different ideas.Without thinking, I told him to let his students write about what they would do if they were given one million US dollars.My friend left with satisfaction, and I fell into my old memories.It reminded me of my old days in primary school.We were learning to do narration in the fifth grade\'s Chinese cla.Our teacher required us to write a composition with the topic \"My Most Unforgettable Day\" with our real experience.When papers came back, half of the students wrote about the first day they came to school.The rest of the compositions were all about picking money on the streets and giving it to policemen, or helping a blind man cro the street.Of course I was among them.But I remember very clearly, that one student, only one student gave something different.He wrote about the day that he first kied a girl.I read his composition.After all these years, I can\'t recite every word, but I dare to say, that even Shakespeare, may not be able to write as equally good when he was 11 years old.The composition was written out of real experience and genuine emotions.Contrary to those fake stories, it sounds real and natural.But the kid was scored zero.Our teacher thought the content was unhealthy, I\'m sure you know the meaning of this Chinglish word \"unhealthy\".That was 15 years ago.When you read those compositions, and you feel that half of our population is blind, so all those kids could have a chance to help a blind man cro the street, and every one of us has a hole in our pocket, so all those kids could have a chance to pick up the lost money and give it to policemen.A few days ago, my friend sent me an e-mail of all the copies of his students\' compositions.I have to say, I was sadly disillusioned.Among those papers 40% said that they wanted to donate the money to people in poverty, so their children can go to school.The rest compositions are much more alike.Some wanted to support the panda protection project, some wanted to buy books to enlarge their knowledge.One student even said that he would like to spend his one million dollars on the effort to cure AIDS.I was more astonished to find that a ten- year-old child knew what AIDS really is.We all have been kids, and we knew what we had once wanted.But, there was no composition about spending the money on video games, nice clothes, chocolates, ice-creams and expensive toys.Like 15 years ago, students won\'t tell the truth of their hearts.It has always been our dream to open our children\'s hearts.We encourage them to describe their dreams, and acted as if we are ready to accept their thoughts.But the fact is that, children are scared by the zero marked on their papers.They are trained to say what we want to hear.People compare children to flowers of tomorrow.And parents dream about the scenery that roses, tulips, daffodils flourish in the future.But down the road we are going on, in the future, or the future of future, only one kind of flower can be found.And that\'s the flower we like most.
徐鸿达：外交学院选手，第十一届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛季军。 演讲稿：
Dream vs.Reality Last month, I happened to watch an interview of a Chinese student studying abroad.At one point the hoste asked: \"For how long have you been away from home?\" \"Three years,\" he said.\"How do you keep in touch with your parents?\" \"We wrote emails,\" the young man replied proudly.\"Then I gue your parents learned how to send an email just because of you, right?\" Having heard this from the hoste, the young man was speechle for a long time.Indeed, in the world today, it is not easy for the elder generation to keep up to date with the rapid development of technology.
This story reminded me of my concerns when I first left home for college three years ago: My parents don\'t understand English.They couldn\'t identify the buttons marked in English on our remote controls.So when I was away from home, who would help them select Chinese subtitles when they wanted to watch a foreign movie on our DVD? My parents don\'t use pinyin, the phonetic symbols for Chinese.Therefore, they couldn\'t input Chinese characters into their cell phones using the keyboard.Without me, whom could they depend on when they needed to reply to a text meage? I worried a lot, so before I left, I carefully prepared a flow chart on how to operate the DVD player, and stored as many template meages in my parents\' phones as I could poibly think of. Fortunately, my efforts did work for my parents.However, what makes me more optimistic is that society at large is becoming more concerned about the elder generation, and the fruit of technological innovation is no longer believed to be an aet only for the young people.Today, with simple Chinese instructions on the remote control, even my 80-year-old grandfather can play his favorite TV program on a DVD.Last year, with the money I earned from a part-time job, I bought my mother a new cell phone which supports handwritten meages instead of inputting words through a keyboard.And now, my mother no longer has to use the templates meages I\'ve stored for her, instead, she now sends me meages as long as 300 words.The joy I have when reading those text meages is inexpreible, not only because of the words she writes, but also because our technology has indeed become a real bleing in her life.
Two years ago, the counter service in our neighborhood bank was replaced by an ATM station.With those intelligent machines, people can carry out all their regular banking services.My father, however, was not used to such a change.Thereafter, he always walked three blocks further to a bank with a counter to use their services.In the future, however, this will no longer happen, because when I went to that ATM station again last spring festival, I found a delightful change: the terminals there have adopted a voice guidance system.While I was there, I noticed a grey haired man using the voice instructions.And despite his hesitation between preing the buttons, he left the bank with a satisfactory smile.What a marvel! My vision for the future was unfolding before my very eyes.At that moment, I rejoiced thinking of my father, someday, standing there using the banking service.I rejoiced thinking of myself that when I become old, the new inventions can still ease my life rather than making the life harder.
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