21世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛稿

.精品文档 . <br />2016 全新精品资料 -全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 –独家原创 <br />1 / 12 <br />21 世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛稿 <br />21 世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛稿 1 <br />The Doors that Are Open to Us <br />Good morning ladies and gentlemen: <br />The title of my speech today is &quot;The Doors that Are <br />Open to Us &quot;. <br />The other day my aunt paid me a visit. She was <br />overjoyed. &quot;I got the highest mark in the midterm <br />examination!&quot; she said. Don&#039;t be surprised! My aunt is <br />indeed a student; to be exact, a college student at the <br />age of 45. <br />Last year, she put aside her private business and <br />signed up for a oneyear, fulltime management course in <br />a college. &quot;This was the wisest decision I have ever <br />made,&quot; she said proudly like a teenage girl. To her, <br />college is always a right place to pick up new ideas, <br />and new ideas always make her feel young. <br />&quot;Compared with the late 70s,&quot; she says, &quot;now <br />college students have many doors.&quot; My aunt cannot help <br />but recall her first college experience in 1978 when <br />college doors began to be reopened after the Cultural <br />Revolution. She was assigned to study engineering <br />.精品文档 . <br />2016 全新精品资料 -全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 –独家原创 <br />2 / 12 <br />despite her desire to study Chinese literature, and a <br />few years later, the government sent her to work in a <br />TV factory. <br />I was shocked when she first told me how she (had) <br />had no choice in her major and job. Look at us today! <br />So many doors are open to us! I believe there have never <br />been such abundant opportunities for selfdevelopment <br />as we have today. And my aunt told me that we should <br />reach our goals by grasping all these opportunities. <br />The first door I see is the opportunity to study <br />different kinds of subjects that interest us. My aunt <br />said she was happy to study management, but she was also <br />happy that she could attend lectures on ancient Chinese <br />poetry and on Shakespearean drama. As for myself, I am <br />an English major, but I may also go to lectures on <br />history. To me, if college education in the past <br />emphasized specialization, now, it emphasizes free and <br />wellrounded development of each individual. So all the <br />fine achievements of human civilization are open to us. <br />The second door is the door to the outside world. <br />Learning goes beyond classrooms and national <br />boundaries. My aunt remembers her previous college days <br />.精品文档 . <br />2016 全新精品资料 -全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 –独家原创 <br />3 / 12 <br />as monotonous and even calls her generation &quot;frogs in <br />a well.&quot; But today, as the world becomes a global <br />village, it is important that our neighbors and we be <br />openminded to learn with and from each other. I have <br />many fellow international classmates, and I am applying <br />to an exchange program with a university abroad. As for <br />my aunt, she is planning to get an MBA degree in the <br />United Kingdom where her daughter, my cousin, is now <br />doing her master&#039;s degree in biochemistry. ...