英语演讲获奖话题Word文档下载推荐.docx

1、“What would you do if you had only one day left to live?”I asked this question to my young students when teaching English this winter. What were their answers?“I would watch television!” the first answer. “I would play with the computer!” the second one. “I would play with computer TOO.” The girl fi

2、nished her sentence perfectly with a serious smile. Indeed how cute and innocent that smile was, but how seriously my heart was hurt. I was too frightened to listen to more answers like that.Ten years ago, at their age, I had a different answer: I would spend the last day of my life gazing at the fa

3、ce of my dear grandmother until I inscribed every detail of it onto my mind.When grandmother was getting old and weak, my family bought her a telephone so I could save time and the trouble of traveling to her home by making phone calls instead. Later we bought her a television so she could watch mod

4、ern dramas by herself. Then grandma must have been, we assumed, very contented and happy.But I never really knew how grandma felt. She silently passed away without a word one night. When I heard about her death, a chilling pain pierced my empty heart. The pain grew even sharper as I tried to remembe

5、r in detail exactly how grandma looked and I failed completely! How could I remember? I had not visited her for agesit seemed like a century! My memories of her dissolved into thin air and leaked away like water.Even though I have a telephone, can she hear me now?Even though I might be on television

6、, can she see me now?Even though I have modern telecommunications, can she still communicate with me now?With all these “tele”s, I was powerless.Dont people just love the word of “tele”, which means far away. Indeed this is how modern technology has changed our world. But please dont forget this oth

7、er word with “tele”: telepathy: which refers to human beings inborn ability to connect to our loved ones. Our minds are supposed to read each others minds; our hearts are supposed to feel each others hearts and fulfill these without any forms of tool!But the moment I desperately struggled to remembe

8、r grandmothers face, the telepathy between her and me had shut down forever. With the help of modern technology, I killed our telepathy.This shall never happen again! The “tele”s are great inventions. But “telepathy” gives them the warmth of a human face. Lets harness the power of television to exci

9、te our kids to develop their telepathy with nature so that they can read the secret language of flowers. Lets make the telephone lines provoke us to preserve our telepathy with each other, so we can connect in a warm and feeling way. Let technology keep our “telepathy” ALIVE! We need to wake up and

10、make this happen.I told my grandmas story to those young kids that day. They got very quiet. They asked me for a second chance to answer the question. They had come to a new understanding that very moment they had made to me and to our future together, a dear promise.Thank you very much!If I had a m

11、agic wishHonorable judges, ladies and gentlemen,The fairytale of Aladdin has always been my childhood favorite. I was mesmerized by how Aladdin used his three magic wishes. As a small girl, I dreamed of having the magic wishes to go wherever I wanted to go and see whatever I wanted to see. As you ca

12、n probably guess, I havent found my genie in the lamp yet, however, I have found something just as exciting and it has made marvelous changes in not only my life, but the lives of all human-beings. It is called technology.I still remember how my father told me about his childhood back in those days

13、when China was not as open and developed as it is now. Children would run for kilometers to school, make toys with wood by themselves, and the biggest dream of a child was holding two jars of sugar, one white, the other brown in each arm and having the choice of eating whichever he wanted. Just look

14、 at what we have now. Magnificent technological advancement has opened up a whole new world to us.However, just as our lives become more convenient, problems arise from this new life style. We seem to be caged in the modern technology; we are thinking alike as a result of using the same search engin

15、e, we are getting lazy as most of our work can be done by machines, and we are alienating people around us for we are more comfortable talking on phones and typing in front of a computer.If I was given the chance to make my magic wishes now, I would wish we could go back in time and live for three d

16、ays without advanced technology. I wonder what we would do in those three days. Here is what I imagine.On the first day, people would be feeling so uncomfortable with the new situation that they would probably be confused and just not know what to do. The world would be in a mess for the whole day.O

17、n the second day, as life goes on, people would have to find alternative ways to deal with their daily rituals: students would have to go to libraries for information they wanted instead of searching on Google; boys would have to express their affection to girls in person instead of sending an annoy

18、ing txt message; and the young people of today would have the chance to experience the childhood of their parents. On this particular day, we could recover all we had lost in the modern world.Then comes the third day. After the previous two days, we would gradually come to realize that we should hav

19、e paid more attention to our studies and work as we actually have so much creativity and potential within ourselves. We would also realize that we should have spent more time with a friend, a parent or a child as we do love them, but we dont really understand them due to the lack of personal communi

20、cation. We shouldnt have been so dependent on modern technology as it wasnt invented to confine us, but to inspire us. This last day would be spent in sparks of new ideas and sweet moments with our loved ones.Maybe some would argue that it is just my imagination, and that magic would never work in o

21、ur world. True, but magic can always work in our hearts, helping us understand that we, instead of the machine, are the masters of the world. The key is to treasure our human initiative and connections, to see the world with our own eyes, explore the unknown with our minds and treat others with our

22、hearts. Just like Aladdin didnt choose to use magic to gain a happy life, we can make our choice, too. And when we do, we will live, as in the fairy tales, happily ever after. Thank you.From made in China to created in ChinaOne in four computers in the world comes from China; but from each computer

23、produced, China earns only what 10 apples are worth. I read this in People Daily not long ago. While the force of globalization has spread Chinese-made products all over the world and earned China the name “worlds factory”, China earns very little profits from this kind of low-cost production. Its e

24、ven been said that China has to export 800 million shirts to get an airplane.The problem is, China has involved in countless processes of production, but doesnt necessarily have the intellectual property rights. If all we can be is part of the low-cost, labor-oriented production process, well remain

25、 in a passive, disadvantaged position and gradually lose our competitive edge in the global arena. To develop Chinas creative industry, transforming products from made in China to created in China has become one of Chinas major tasks.This transformation will be no less like a marathon, requiring muc

26、h effort especially that from Chinese enterprises, the major force in Chinese economy. Though there s no one in front leading us which direction to run, theres much to learn from some Chinese enterprises that have already found the right strategies and are shining on the global stage. These strategi

27、es involve brand identity establishment, technological innovation and modern management system.Firstly, the brand that I mentioned above is an intangible yet most valuable asset to a company. It gains credibility from consumers, thus constituting the reason for consumers to buy habitually. Tong Ren

28、Tang, the largest producer of traditional Chinese medicine, remains one of the oldest surviving brand names. The credibility that it gained through quality products has made its name known worldwide and maintains its recognized brand.The second strategy is innovation of technology, which helps enter

29、prises gain its core competency. In the global era where technology emerges at a rapid speed, one has to adopt the latest technology, and also to compete for the speed of developing new ones. The success of Haier, the third largest household appliances manufacturer in the world, lies in its constant

30、 innovation. Over the past 16 years, Haier has invested a total of 7 billion RMB in technological development, using 6 percent of its income for scientific research and the development of new products. At present, Haiers development operational speed is turning out 1.3 new products a day, maintaining its upper-hand in the fierce competition.The third strategy is the establishment of modern management system. New Hope Group, the National Leading Enterprise for Agricu