英语期末口语测试演讲PPT.pptxVIP

Being alive is a gift;Hello, everybody! It‘s a great honor for me to be here now to share a book called Being alive is a gift that I’ve been reading recently. And?I?have to?mention that I was prepared to talk about the lifelong learning English, the importance of learning English, or the pursuit of our dreams at?first. But something that happened to me recently that changed my mind. ;Since the beginning of school, I have been used to go to bed late and get up very early in order to cope with all the exams. Of course I was also hating to get out of bed sometimes, but on those nights before the day that I got up late, I fell asleep very late frequently. There would never be a day that I was sleeping early, never. In summer, the presence of mosquitoes seriously affected the quality of my sleep. I cant count how many times that I was roused by the mosquitoes at midnight with numerous itchy mosquito bites on my body.;About half a month ago my heart began to ache and I was absent-minded and became lethargy in the day. I know this is not a good signal. Whereupon I thought of a book called Being alive is a gift that I had stumbled across years ago. I read this book a little bit, no more. Now I read it again. ;The book tells a true story. The author, Yujuan, a Ph.D in economics from Fudan University, was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2009 and was sentenced to only one and a half years of life. In the battle with the disease, Yujuan has recorded her final journey through the microblog of “Fudan teacher‘s anti-cancer record” and the blog of “living is the ?Biggest Thing. Yujuan introspected on her bad habits and life details in her diary of her life, and summed up many philosophies of life from the experience of life and death, and encouraged more people to appreciate life and be kind to life with optimistic and open-minded attitude of life.;I knew that I had to change and I started to force myself to go to bed at 11:00 pm, and waked up at 5:30 am to recite word