1、第 PAGE6 頁(yè) 共 NUMPAGES6 頁(yè)大學(xué)生英語(yǔ)演講稿 - 英語(yǔ)演講 - Just make to it the finals, they had to get past 60 others speaking on “The impact of globalization on traditional Chinese values”. That was at the semi-final on April 8-9. What will Chinese college students think about the impact? Each contestant had his own

2、 take on the subject. Xia summed up globalization by saying: “Its just controversial and hard to say whether it is good or bad.” Xia took the old wall of his city, Nanjing, as a metaphor. He spoke about the conflict over whether to protect the old walls or tear them down to represent the conflict of

3、 ideas. He suggested that people protect the wall as a valuable relic while tearing down the “intangible walls” of their minds that prevent munication. While some other students are more focusing on the impact of globalization on family relations, attitudes towards love, and job-hunting.Over the pas

4、t 10 years, the national English speaking petition has given contestants a chance to speak on a variety of topics closely related to their lives. Chinese students bee more open-minded and receive various ideas and thinking over the decade. Diversity bees more obvious on cus, students have more oppor

5、tunities to express and show themselves. Its not an easy task for the contestants to win through the fierce petition. Owning to their passion, hard work and persistence, they finally succeeded in the contest.The winner in 2022 surprised the audience, since she came from accounting major instead of E

6、nglish major. Gu Qiubei, then 22 years old, was a senior in Shanghai Foreign Studies University. While being asked whether she had some good methods to learn English, she said: “Learn English with passion and enthusiasm.” Attracted by the greatness of English language, Gu even changed her major from

7、 accounting to English in her postgraduate study. The most important issue in English learning process she pointed out is personal interests. Only people interested in English benefit a lot from the learning methods and those with passion will finally achieve their dreams.When chief of global media

8、giant Via Sumner Redstone gave a speech in Tsinghua University on his autobiography A Passion to Win, he was asked what made him to restart his career at the age of 60, the 81-year-old media tycoon said: “Firstly, theres a self-driving force in my deep heart, which keeps my passion to succeed and su

9、rpass others; secondly, I dont think Im too old to leave work, actually I love my work very much.”Im studying in a city thats famous for its walls. People who visit my city are amazed at the imposing sight of its walls, especially when silhouetted against the setting sun with gold, shining streaks.

10、The old, cracked bricks are covered with lichens and the walls are weather-beaten guards standing still for centuries.Our ancestors liked to build walls. They built walls in Beijing, Xian, Nanjing and many other cities, and they built the Great Wall, which snakes across half our country. They built

11、walls to protect against enemies and evil spirits. This tradition has survived to this day: we still have many parks and schools walled off from the public.For a long time, walls were one of the most natural things in the world to me.My perceptions, however, changed after I made a hiking trip to the

12、 eastern suburbs of my city. My CLASSmates and I were walking with some foreign students. As we walked out of the city, we found ourselves flanked by tall trees, which formed a wide canopy above our heads. Suddenly one foreign student asked me, “Where is the entrance to the eastern suburbs?”“Were al

13、ready in the eastern suburbs,” I replied. He seemed taken aback, “I thought you Chinese had 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 wal

14、ls.That debate had no winners, but I did learn a lot from this student. For instance, he told me that some major universities like Oxford and Cambridge were not surrounded by walls. I have to admit that we do have many walls in China, and as we develop our country, we must look carefully at them and

15、 decide whether they are physical or intangible. We will keep some walls but tear down those that impede our development.Let me give another exle. At the beginning of this semester, I heard that my university had started to think of unifying its libraries and linking them to libraries at other unive

16、rsities, so my experience wouldnt be repeated. Barriers would be replaced by bridges. An inter-library loan system would give us access to books from any library. With globalization and China integrated into the world, I believe many of these intangible walls will be knocked down.I know that globali

17、zation 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 Chinas tangible and intangible walls and forces us to examine their role in the modern world.And how about the ancient walls of mine and other cities? Should we tear

18、 them down? Definitely not. My city, like Beijing and other cities, is actually making a great effort to preserve the walls. These walls attract historians, archaeologists, and many schoolchildren who are trying to study our history and cultural heritage. Walls have bee bridges to our past and to the rest of the world