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Youth Ideal Future

Good evening, everyone. My name is WangHaili. I am an outgoing girl who likes reading and traveling. It’s really my great honor to stand here and give everyone a short speech.

People say, youth is fire which is ignited by passion. People say, youth is a chapter of the poem which is written by stories. The color of youth is bright and we make most use of our ardor to draw the scenes to the canvas of painting. But we may be confused and lose our direction in the youth time. Under this, youth slips away. Roman Roland says, life doesn’t issue return ticket and can never come back once sets out. So we should seize the short youth time and try our best to pursue our ideal. Do what should we do and let our youth without regret.

When we refer to ideal, we will realize the importance of ideal. Ideal is the beacon,. Without ideal, we will lose the firm direction. Without direction, we will lose our life. According to this, every one of us should establish our own ideal .so that we have the direction of straggle to the future. Tolstoy tells us, we should have the life objective from the whole life to the second. So we should cherish every moment and form our systematic objective. Youth is the prime time. We have strong body and energy and can sense the meaning of life under the guide of ideal.

As we know, the ideal is plentiful and reality is skinny. But we should believe that we will become stronger and stronger in the way to pursue ideal. Future is unknown,. If we hope our future is nice, we should enrich our youth time and find the direction of future.

Let us use our youth to pursue our ideal and make our future wonderful. So we will have gorgeous life.

敬爱的老师，亲爱的同学们：

大家好！

想不到今天，我能在台上演讲！对于我来说，今天是个特殊的日子。

你们知道吗？我今天有勇气来演讲并竞选班长，是因为我有故事要告诉大家。上次班级大扫除的时候，由于废纸旧卷太多。很多卷子都被当做垃圾扔到了废物箱里。我带领着几个同学把那些“废纸”打开，找出了许多有用的资料，幸亏我的细心，不然上课可就完了。

世上无难事，只怕有心人。仅这一点，我就符合一个班长的素质。

上学期，学校举办了读书节，班级海报设计的活动，就是以班为单位设计海报。我们三个联手设计海报，花了一个多星期的时间，终于做好了。可是我总觉得少了点什么，是没发挥好吗？不是。写跑题了？不是。没认真做？更不是。那是什么呢？哦！我知道了！缺少立体感，对！就是这个问题！后来我们班得奖了。精益求精是我的另一个品质。

我当上班长以后，如果学习有难题，我会帮助大家解决。课后有什么需要帮助，我可以帮大家完成，集体活动有什么困难，我也有办法帮助大家。

希望同学们支持我，谢谢大家！

You have earned the endorsement of those who have come before you and we expect that you will honor the legacy of improving the world by your contributions in [the] years to come.

And while it may not be easy to determine your passion or decipher your purpose, we will always be here to support you as you navigate this experience we call ‘life’.

We will always be here not just to tell you, but to show you that the only way around adversity isn not around it at all; it is straight through it.

So, expect adversity – expect adversity, excuse me. Invite it. And embrace it. Because it will be your greatest asset. It will help you be a better human being. It will teach you the same thing my mother taught me…that no morth and prosper!”

atter how bad you feel, that even at your lowest point, you got this.

Because Dukies…Dukies hear clearly, graduates, Dukies are like titanium. We might be dented on every side, but we are never crushed. And in the final analysis, we are “forever Duke”.

you -- you’re on the cusp of some of the most astonishing breakthroughs in the history of mankind -— scientific, technological, socially —- that’s going to change the way you live and the whole world works. But it will be up to you in this changing world to translate those unprecedented capabilities into a greater measure of happiness and meaning -— not just for yourself, but for the world around you.

And I feel more confident for my children and grandchildren knowing that the men and women who graduate here today, here and across the country, will be in their midst. That’s the honest truth. Thats the God’s truth. Thats my word as a Biden.

Congratulations, Class of 20xx. And may God bless you and may God protect our troops. Thank you.

the more youre thinking back to those original goals, the easier it is for you to get back up and say, "Alright, it might be difficult, it might be painful, it might be stressful, there might be no people that believe in me, but I believe in myself."

You know it might have been the case that you should have gone through that harsh break up, that you should have gone through that heavy loss, just in order to find something even better.

But the only way to get to that even better, is to get back up and work. To get back up and put yourself out there again. And arise from that again, stronger, better, smarter, ready to grasp that new opportunity.

You gotta believe the tables in your life will turn. That pain will become power, that weakness will become strength, and that confusion will become peace. Better things are coming for your life.

Everyday is a new beginning. Its time for you to start treating it that way.

敬爱的老师、亲爱的同学们：

你们好!

我叫，我爱好唱歌、跳舞，特长英语、音乐。这次，我要竞选的职位是英语课代表。

我喜爱英语，成绩更是在班里名列前茅。甚至有时候玩游戏我都玩英语的，虽然有些我不会念，但慢慢来，总是能学会的。再说了，这几年我一直都是英语课代表，有一些经验，我有责任、有能力为英语老师做好我力所能及的工作。

如果我当上了英语课代表，首先我会比以前更加努力，使同学们更加信任我，另外，以前，有许多同学对我有意见，说我不能当好这个英语课代表，这次，我会用实际行动来证明自己：我能当好这个英语课代表。

我会带领大家进行一些关于英语的活动，比如说：一月总结、单元总结等。我们可以做小报、写反思等形式开展各项主题活动，我坚信，在我的带领下，我们班的英语成绩会直线上升!

即使我当不上英语课代表，我也不会气馁，依然会继续帮助大家，请大家投我一票吧!

我的发言完毕，谢谢大家!

"Inspirational speech"

1. Growth takes time. You only want to do is target sights, full of patience, full of indomitable spirit to move forward, and this is our growth process.

2. Way of life of our people, there are two: the first one is like grass alive, you though alive, still growing every year, but you are, after all, is a grass, you absorb the sun and rain, but grow up, people can step you, but it will not be because of your pain and he produces pain, people do not come because you were stepped pity you, because people do not see you! So every one of us should be tree-like growth, even if we do nothing, but as long as you have the seeds of the tree, even if it was the middle of the man stepped on the soil, you are still able to absorb soil nutrients, own growing up, maybe two in three years, you grow up, two decades but eight or ten years, you will be able to grow into towering trees, when you grow into towering trees, the distant place that people will be able to see you come near you, you can giving a green, a cool, can you help others, even if people leave you, a look back, you are still on the horizon a beautiful landscape, tree alive beautiful scenery, dead still is a pillar of the living dead are used, this standard is the standard of life of each and every one of us and grow.

3. Those who want to all of a sudden, the thing dry into the idea, even if he did into this thing, he no foundation tantamount to build a house on the beach, they will definitely collapse, only slowly things step by step as dry as, every step gave himself has laid a solid foundation, each step gave a good explanation, and then again to the next higher go step he is able to make things really do successful .

2. You in the end what is most like what we should do when you decide life doing, you must unswervingly to stay here, Do not change, you can be like a river, flow more broad, but Do not want to go into another river, or into a high mountain.

5. Our future life one of the most important ability, the ability called bite the bullet, and a lot of celebrities will encounter a lot of things you can not stand, but you have to live with, rather than endure can not succeed, and why? Because you do not bite the bullet, you do not have the time, you do not have the space, not toward future space, if you want to last into the future, become stronger and more prosperous, you have to do to give myself enough time and space , turn to our own lives in order to strive for a great goal when you exclude, to have must exclude all trivial interference in your life, so you have to bite the bullet! Personal, you want to have a great development, you have to fight for their own time, to fight for space, fight for the future, and to gain time to fight for space to fight for the future of one of the most important prerequisite is that you have the ideal! But you dare to endure life appear unfair to you, or you think you can not stand the things!

6. I have a metaphor, every river has its own different life curve, the curve of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River is definitely not the same, but every river has its own dream, that is, towards the sea! Therefore, regardless of the Yellow River is how the twists and turns, bypassing the obstacles Yangtze River Shui bend as good as the Yellow River, but she broke through the cliffs, the way is not the same, but to finally come to the sea. When we encounter difficulties, whether it is rush to go around, as long as we could in the past, I hope everyone can make their own life to the dream stream past, the same as the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers flow to the end of their dreams, into a broad ocean, so that their lives become open broadened own career, but not to say that you want the stream will be able to stream past, in fact, there have a spirit, no doubt, this is the water spirit! Our life sometimes sediment, although you can also follow the water with forward flow, but because of your personality defect, in the face of a difficult step backward or timid, you might slowly will be the same as the sediment precipitated down , once you precipitation down, you may no longer need to move forward efforts, but you never see the sun, you precipitate it, above the sediment will continue to suppress you, and finally you will be dark, So I suggest that everyone, regardless of your life is how kind, must have the spirit of water, even if it is contaminated, wash their own strength as water continues to savings, to break through the obstacles, when you find timing not to the thickness of the accumulated, when one day when the time comes, youll be able to gallop into the sea, the achievements of their lives!

7 .Everyone know Western mythology, there is a story called Sisyphus, due Zeus punishment must push down from the foot of a stone pushed to the top of the hill, when the big rock pushed him to the top of the hill, the stone will automatically rolled down to the foot of the mountain, he had to start from scratch to push up, so worried! Little think about our daily life and work is not such a process, and when he pushed the stone, when to treat it as a form of punishment, his mind will be very hard to accept daily with grievances resentment in pushing the stone like many of us work with grievances and resentment at work, your work will always do well, but when he later realized this, and push through the seasons, push lightning weathered, when he pushed to the top of the hill to see higher and more beautiful blue sky, he felt that push the stone is also a beautiful time of life, life in fact has been sublimated. Our lives what passes cost-effective, when we look back we have in the past days, we have some days to make our own was moved to tears, what let you in tears the day, you make some let you feel can not do, but you do things.

8. of my own personal experience is how business is more successful a few key points: the first point, and how, as far as possible, to combine their long-term goals and short-term goals, we must first distinguish what things we want to life doing things, which things are suddenly finish the things we can not dry. China we have a saying hurry slow to do, the more anxious you things, you are done more carefully and more seriously, the more we can do a good job, and the more anxious you do things the faster, but more to do to pieces. I hurry to call it a major event, for example, you want to be a lifetime to master a high level of English, you say three months, learn twelve hours a day, you are absolutely impossible, three months, and you English level will be greatly improved, but three months later, you do not learn that in another three months, forget your English level. The second element is to determine their own life to do, then I think very important is usually to do things when the time plan, a person is very dynamic, and I do more than ten years ago, the New Oriental I feel that the time is not enough, Im too busy hands and feet the air, finally found something to finish, I twenty-four hours to do things, out of things to do with more than a dozen years ago my twenty-four hours running around in circles , is quite different. So why can busy over it, the reason is very simple, because you busy when you know how to plan your time, do remember that, no matter the time, and certainly are able squeezed out, then there is a very important, called the success of the necessary self-restraint, I ski five years ago, just up on the snow to fall on the snow fell, but then I found that it does not work, I have to learn to stop, we know that skiing two parked method of beginner ski toe stop method, but when the ski slope to reach a certain slope, this eight regardless of use, to the two skis side over side stop, so I spent a whole weeks time, I have not practiced skiing, I come with specialized training to stop, stop I found I have done a very good time, I directly carrying snowboard a senior Road, I have a friend, he felt that you can on that I can on his side of the ski trails is hillside, one side is cliffs, the results after him when he could not stop. directly rushed to the cliffs that have passed, rushed past that he is not afraid of you, afraid he began forcibly Niuguo Lai Niuguo Lai a foot Niuguo Lai, the other feet did not Niuguo Lai, results of two feet ripped ligament was completely pulled off at any time, when youre in front of the face of a huge temptation, and any other temptation may arise, if you feel not stop, you do not go chase that thing, because you chase that thing can not stop himself, and finally come a cropper necessarily you!

9. Great and extraordinary difference is that an ordinary person, living a trivial life every day, but he spelled out the trivial, or a bunch of trivial life! The so-called great man, a bunch of trivial things, by a great goal, daily accumulated into a great career!

10. There are two words that I appreciate: Life is a process; career is a result. Everyone live live in every day, if every day you upset you every day all combined, is your life happy, but if you happy every day, in fact, your life is happy Happy! Time I go to the Yellow River, I use mineral water bottles filling a bottle of water, we all know that the Yellow River water is particularly muddy, then I placed on the side of the road, about an hour or so, so I am very surprise, found that three-quarters have become a very clear and a bottle of water, and only a quarter of it is settling down sediment. That if we put a bottle of water to fresh water part of the metaphor of our happiness and joy, and that that mud, muddy sediment precipitation metaphor of our pain, you understand, when you shake it after your life in whole is full of pollution, that is full of all the pain and trouble, but when you calm down, despite the sediment total weight at all did not decrease, but it is deposited in your heart, because your heart is quiet, so we never mix up three-quarters of your life must be happiness and joy. What is the cause of a result, we all know that as one thing, it really is relentless, if New Oriental I do fail, I am absolutely not here today to give you the opportunity to address the reasons because its final results here, so anything as long as you do it, he can not be considered successful, for example, we said Cao Xueqin success, whether socialist or capitalist, would have to admit that Cao Xueqin Chinese history one of the greatest writers, we say that Newton is successful, whatever nation or any people would admit that he is one of the greatest scientists in the world, I consider myself to be successful, unsuccessful New Oriental much not successful how much money I have or how many friends I think I succeeded in that I have a state of mind, I fell in the past more than 10 million times, the future I may also fall thousands of times, but Im still able to get up. For how you do things, things like, the eyes of people in society, it is the only standard of success!

11. I want to say that human life is very flat road, by you absolutely go finish this world only you together with others, for the same goal, with things, in order to put the thing made very limited power of one person, but a group of people is unlimited power, when five fingers outstretched, five fingers, but when you put five fingers hold up, it is a fist!

Look, at a Gridiron Dinner not long ago, the President said, I -- the President -- “I am learning to speak without a teleprompter, Joe is learning to speak with one.” (Laughter.) But if you looked at my speechwriters, you know why.And the granddaughter of one of my dearest friends in life -— a former Holocaust survivor, a former foreign policy advisor, a former Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congressman Tom Lantos -— is graduating today. Mercina, congratulations, kiddo. (Applause.) Where are you? You are the sixth -- she’s the sixth sibling in her immediate family to graduate from Yale. Six out of 11, thats not a bad batting average. (Laughter.) I believe it’s a modern day record for the number of kids who went to Yale from a single family.

And, Mercina, I know that your mom, Little Annette is here. I dont know where you are, Annette. But Annette was part of the first class of freshman women admitted to Yale University. (Applause.)

And her grandmother, Annette, is also a Holocaust survivor, an amazing woman; and both I’m sure wherever they are, beaming today. And I know one more thing, Mercina, your father and grandfather are looking down, cheering you on.

Hello everyone!

My name is-.I want to be the monitor of our class for I can undertake the responsibility and I have enough ability to be competent!First,what I think the monitor is a sever for a class,he should spare no effort to help everyone in study and daily life.Second,I will do my best in study,thus helping others.At last,I will completely layout our descipline in practice.Surely I believe I can!

Thank you!

In ancient Greece, these were called Sophists – and they would have loved Twitter and Facebook.

Social media has given rise to a new golden age of sophistry – aided and abetted by blind partisanship. The only way to overcome it – the only way to lift our national discourse out of the gutter – is to heed Washington’s words and take pains to bring truth to light.

Those pains are the burden of citizenship in a democracy. And a great education does not relieve them. It intensifies them. This is especially true, I believe, for graduates of a university bearing the name Washington.

Goodmorning/afternoon,everybody!A famous American poet says , "Life is short, study is long." Everyone should work hard and study well. Never waste any time. Now we are young, we have so many things to do. Youth time is like a happy bird. If it flew away, it would never return. Nothing is more important than time.

Today some students spend too much time enjoying their lives such as eating, clothing, traveling and so on. Others spend too much time reading some useless books. A lot of time has been wasted. They have no idea that waste of time means wasting of one’s life.

While we are young and full of energy, let’s study hard.

My speech is over ! Thank you.

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal. And when I was 15, a member of my local community approached my parents and wanted to nominate me for a community achievement award. And my parents said, "Hm, thats really nice, but theres kind of one glaring problem with that. She hasnt actually achieved anything."And they were right, you know. I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low-key after school job in my mums hairdressing salon, and I spent a lot of time watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Dawsons Creek." Yeah, I know. What a contradiction. But they were right, you know. I wasnt doing anything that was out of the ordinary at all. I wasnt doing anything that could be considered an achievement if you took disability out of the equation.

Well, good morning, everyone. Hello, WashU, how is everyone doing?

Let me start with the most important words I can say today: Congratulations to the distinguished graduates of the great Class of 20xx.

I’d like to welcome everyone here – and Chancellor Wrighton for extending the invitation. I’ve known the chancellor for more than a decade, and I want to congratulate him for everything he has done to both transform this campus and raise academic standards.

If there are…if there are any older alumni present, be glad you applied back when you did. I can just tell you that certainly I would not have gotten into WashU today. For the record, I was the kind of student who always made the top half of the class possible.

Graduates, it’s a great honor to be your Commencement speaker. I accept the fact that I wasn’t your first choice. But unfortunately, T-Pain couldn’t make it. Mandatory vocal rest, he said. Actually, that’s the same reason I didn’t go out last night and sing karaoke at T’s.

Today’s a beautiful day. But this is St. Louis, and so before leaving my hotel this morning, I also packed a winter parka.

I drove over here, and I was lucky: I found a very convenient parking space – on West Campus – so I took the shuttle over. It was worth it. What an amazing place this is. Where else could I see the bunny? And the DUC.

Still, I was disappointed that, in all my walking around, I did not get to see the school’s most famous icon: Ninja Turtle Backpack Guy. Demetri, way to dance to your own beat.

尊敬的老师,亲爱的同学们:

大家好!

我是(五)一班的一名学生,名叫。今天走上这个讲台只有一个目地，

那就是为了竞选班长。

我是一个，性格开朗.成绩优逸的一个学生,在同学之中也具有领导性作用,这可能是我当了几回班长,知道怎样带领大家。有什么不对之处，告诉我，我会尽力的改正错误的。

如果竞选上了班长，我会：1.把班上的秩序调整好;2.和各个班干部一起帮助班上成绩不好的同学把成绩提高;3.协助老师一起管理班上的大小事件等。如果我没有竞选上班长，我也不会这样轻易的放弃的，而且，我会在一年中让大家看到我进步的成果的。我会更上一层楼的!

请大家行动起来吧!为我投上你们手里那珍贵的一票吧，给我一次锻炼我的机会吧!

谢谢大家!

各位评委各位同学大家晚上好!

首先做一下简单的自我介绍，我叫~~-~，来自信电~~班，(举例名字叫杨少峰，胡杨树的杨，代表我有胡杨树一样坚韧的品格，少年的少，代表我身上充满的少年的阳刚之气和活力，山峰的峰代表我渴望登上成功的顶峰)，我的直觉告诉我，像我这样的名字在不久的将来可能会出现在福布斯排行榜上。我平时比较喜欢打篮球我的人生格言：激-情成就梦想

我的创业口号是:employ yourself, enlighten your life——激-情创业，点燃梦想!

今天我演讲的题目是《激-情创业，点燃梦想》

我很佩服三种人，第一种是不甘平庸，不沉于安逸，一心想做出一番大事业并且不断为之而奋斗的人，如果你是这种人请举起一下手，我佩服的第二种人就是有激-情，有毅力无论遇到什么样的事都不会轻易放弃的人，我佩服的第三种人，就是有自信自己可以为自己鼓掌的人，如果您是这样的人，请为自己鼓一下掌。

好了，也许这三种人你都是，那么恭喜你，因为你一定可以成为一个成功的创业者

许多人都在问为什么工作这么难找?为什么现在大学毕业生就业如此困难?那么我可以告诉是因为中国缺少老板! 因为中国大学生中缺少创业者!因为中国大学生缺少创业的熏陶! 因为我们都想着努力去找工作而很少有人想着努力去为别人创造工作! 如果我们大学生都

只想着毕业以后努力去找工作而都不愿意去为别人创造工作，那又哪里来的那么的岗位呢?

也许将来的你找到一个好的工作，为了结婚你借款买了房，从此便开始了漫长的还贷人生。当机会来敲门时，也许你不在家，于是机会走了：也许你在家，但是一套沉重的房子压得你喘不过气来，结果机会还是走了.一套房子消灭一个梦想 ，这不是我想要的生活，我相信这也不是你们想要的生活。

俞敏洪曾经说过一个年轻人在三年之内没有想法，那么他这一辈子也就是这样子。的确对于有些人来说三年真的很快，但是对于一个创业者来说，在三年的光阴中，你会有巅峰和谷底，你会品尝到更多的酸甜苦辣，你的生命会更加有意义机会是自己创造的，成功总是属于那么一小撮人，为了成为这一小撮人，投身创业，开拓人生，让自己成为这一小撮人中的一分子。

要创业总得有个目标吧，下面简单介绍一下我的创业梦想。

当今世界能源十分紧缺，而我国的能源形势更是不容乐观，因此开发可再生性能源是一个很好的项目。可再生性能源开发与销售公司，这也是我的初步梦想，作为信电学院的一名学生我人为自己的创业方向还是比较符合自己的专业，我真的希望将来能有一天，信电的孩子们可以走进我的公司信电的孩子们不用再为了找工作而发愁。

1、政策支持，学校鼓励。近几年，国家实行了创新工程，进行了体制创新和技术创新。教育部门出台了政策和措施，支持和鼓励在校大学生休学励志创业，欢迎出国留学生回国励志创业。从去年起，高考也放宽了入学年龄和婚否的限制，许多大学也陆续实行了学分制，一些高校相继开展大学生励志创业活动，具备励志创业计划大赛，这些举措都为大学生投身励志创业创造了前所未有的有利条件。

2、知识密集，技术先进。大学生群体励志创业者文化程度高，所学专业技术与励志创业紧密结合，能够学以致用，在技术创新上独树一帜。被媒体称为“中国励志创业第一人”的杨锦方是第一个将励志创业计划大赛引入清华圆、引入中国的人，他注册和创办了“视美乐”公司用所学的计算机知识，为公司发展做出了贡献。

3、社会实践、奠定基础。很多大学生参加勤工俭学、到高新技术企业实习或打工活动，在实践中积累了初步经验，为大学生励志创业奠定了良好的基础。各高校经常举办的励志创业计划大赛、课外科技发明大赛等为大学生励志创业活动的开展注入了生机和活力。

Ladies and Gentlemen,

No one can imagine what our life would be like if we ran out of water. Many people ignore the fact that they waste a lot of water in their daily life. For example, people tend to do something else while the tap is still on or even forget to turn off the tap after using it.

Not until recently did people realize the serious water shortage. It is universally acknowledged that severe water pollution and waste result in water shortage. Therefore, it is high time that the public raised their awareness of saving water resources. In my opinion, we must take effective measures to deal with this problem. For one thing, population should be controlled and more sewage treatment facilities should be established to purify the polluted water. For another, it is our responsibility to develop a good habit to save water in our daily life.

Lets work together to protect and save water resources!

保护环境英语演讲稿

water is the source of life

earth looks like a big blue marble; from high above the earth and from the moon, the planet gleams and shines. the blue water in the oceans and seas of the earth makes a dramatic image.water is the source of this beauty and the source of life on earth. it is the reason people can live on this planet. water is everywhere. water is in rock deep under the ground, in natural holding areas.in a real sense, water keeps earth alive.                                                the last drop of water will be the worlds human tears. we chinese are one of the 12 water-poor countries, as people waste, water less and less.  however, there are many waste of water, for example: some of the children bought water gun filled with water shooting water everywhere; there are some students hand-washing after washing bowls, or not turn off the faucet, waste a lot of water... .... yunnan-guizhou plateau, where the recent prolonged drought, making survival of the population there is facing a serious threat to address this problem, we in china 1.3 billion to develop awareness of water conservation. therefore, i appeal to you here: "take action at water saving

stop earth mother from crying!

地球看上去就像一个巨大的蓝色玻璃球, 从高高的地球上空或从月球上望去，这颗行星熠熠生辉，闪闪发光。

地球上大洋大海里的蔚蓝色的水构成了一幅激动人心的图画。 水是地球上的美丽之源、生命之源。 水是人们能在这颗行星上生存的根本。 到处都有水。

水深藏于地底下的岩层里、在天然蓄水区里. 从真正的意思上说，是水维持着地球的生命。

世界的最后一滴水将是人类的眼泪。我们中国是12个贫水国之一，由于人们的浪费，水源越来越少了。

但是生活中还有许多浪费水的现象，比如；有些小朋友买来水枪到处射水，还有一些学生洗完碗或洗完手，都不关水龙头，浪费了许多水……最近云南贵州高原那里长时间持续干旱，使那里居民生存面临着严重威胁，针对这个问题，我们中国13亿要养成节约用水的意识。                                                      因此，我现在向大家呼吁：‘‘珍惜每一滴水，让地球妈妈不再哭泣

I wish I could do that now. And I took it with my roommate, Carrie, who was then a brilliant literary student — and went on to be a brilliant literary scholar — and my brother — smart guy, but a water-polo-playing pre-med, who was a sophomore.The three of us take this class together. And then Carrie reads all the books in the original Greek and Latin, goes to all the lectures. I read all the books in English and go to most of the lectures. My brother is kind of busy. He reads one book of 12 and goes to a couple of lectures, marches himself up to our rooma couple days before the exam to get himself tutored. The three of us go to the exam together, and we sit down. And we sit there for three hours — and our little blue notebooks — yes, Im that old. We walk out, we look at each other, and we say, "How did you do?" And Carrie says, "Boy, I feel like I didnt really draw out the main point on the Hegelian dialectic." And I say, "God, I really wish I had really connected John Lockes theory of property with the philosophers that follow." And my brother says, "I got the top grade in the class."

The search for truth became its core animating idea and the American Universities flourished over time to institutionalize and idealize that way of life. Also, in 1919, at the more local level, on this campus, the new year-long required course for Columbia freshman has launched call contemporary civilization.

Though today, we know C.C. is the Genesis of the famed curriculum, then it was nothing more than a bold experiment in higher education. The objective reflected in the course name was to apply learning and reason derived from classic texts to the problems facing society in the aftermath of a cataclysmic war. The idea was to double down on the academic mission and it has made a difference as generation after generation has attested to its value in creating an open mind and intellect.

Both of these century-old intellectual innovations arose from the same sensibility. Both assumed that the best side of human nature includes the desire to learn and to live by the truth and to acquire and to create knowledge. And while our natural negative instincts activated by our fears, greed and lust for power sometimes divert us from that quest. A life worth living will only follow from a determined effort to engage with ideas at the most profound levels, even those ideas we dislike and firmly believe to be in error.

This time, your time presents the conundrum this is above all a moment when we must reassert our commitment to open inquiry, to reason and to the sanctity of knowledge and understanding. As was the case a century ago, these pursuits are increasingly out of step with the currents of the broader world, making it all the more essential that we express our devotion to that endeavor.

各位领导、老师、同学：

大家好! 在张主席的指导下，英语教研组长赵瑞亮老师、八年级英语互研组长陈莲洁老师及全体八年级英语教师精心筹备了本次英语朗读比赛。这次比赛，既是对我们英语教师教学水平的一次集中检验，也是对全体同学英语学习水平和学习成效的一次精彩展出，它对我们的英语教学和校园文化必将产生深远的影响。

令我高兴和激动的是，在这次活动中，我们的老师付出了自己的辛劳和智慧，我们的同学展示了自己的聪慧和睿智。特别是在今天的竞技场上，流利的口语展现了你们英语素养，娴熟的朗读技巧展现了你们的英语潜能，你们非凡的表现，铸就了本次活动的精彩。

我想，每一位参赛选手都会有这样的感觉：真正带给我们幸福体验的不只是今天的比赛，而是准备过程中的付出和辛劳。 在中学阶段学好英语，特别是拥有一口标准流畅的英语口语，是你们在未来的人生之旅中占尽先机的通行证。虽然各种高考英语的改革可能对部分家长、同学产生了一定的影响，但你们要记住，在全球一体化的今天，国际接轨的频率越来越高，英语作为国际通用语，它的国际地位永远不容忽视， 我们衷心希望全体同学能够以今天的英语朗读比赛为契机，努力练就自己英语口语的超强本领，为自己今后走向社会积聚必要的基础和能量。最后，让我再次代表学校对位这次活动的成功举办而付出辛劳的各位老师和同学表示衷心的感谢，对各位参赛选手的精彩表现表示衷心的祝贺。

谢谢大家!