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Lets talk about manias. Lets start with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium. Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea -- get the ball in the net. Okay, religious mania: theres rapture, theres weeping, theres visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly. 让我们来谈谈狂热。先从甲壳虫热说起。歇斯底里的少年们：高呼，尖叫，喧嚣。体育热：震耳欲聋的人群，都是为了一个目标，让球入网。还有宗教热：有欢笑、也有泪水还有梦想。狂热可能有益，也可能会令人担忧。有时狂热可能会很致命。 The world has a new mania. A mania for learning English. Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it. 现在，世界上有种新的狂热。学习英语的狂热。下面听听中国学生用高声叫喊的方式练习英语。 Teacher: ... change my life! 老师：...改变我的生活！ Students: I will change my life. 学生：我要改变我的命运。 T: I dont want to let my parents down. 老师：我不想让父母失望。 S: I dont want to let my parents down. 学生：我不想让父母失望。 T: I dont ever want to let my country down. 老师：我从不想让国家失望。 S: I dont ever want to let my country down. 学生：我从不想让国家失望。 T: Most importantly ... S: Most importantly ... 老师：最重要的...学生：最重要的... T: I dont want to let myself down. 老师：我不想让我自己失望。 S: I dont want to let myself down. 学生：我不想让我自己失望。 Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them. JayWalker:全世界现在有多少人学习英语？20亿 Students: A t-shirt. A dress. 学生：一件T恤。一条裙子。 JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China. If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law. Thats why this year China will become the worlds largest English-speaking country. (Laughter) Why English? In a single word: Opportunity. Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days. Her score on this one test literally determines her future. She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare. 25 percent of her grade is based on English. Its called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test