全国英语演讲大赛演讲稿之第九名.doc

Dream for ourselves Good afternoon: Ladies and gentlemen, the topic of my speech today is Dreams of Ourselves. In the first day of my English oral course, our teacher asked us to think about what we would be doing ten years from now, go to America and marry an American girl, a guy student said. He thought it might one of the best ways to learn English well. I may be raising my children with some freelance work to boot, uttered one of my roommates, who was unanimously voted by us to be our “ miss angel in the house”. What about you, Richard, our teacher turned to the walking dictionary of our class. I may be taking up your position and busy being a respected professor. The whole class roared with laughter, our teacher laughed, too. What beautiful dreams we used to have. But now, everybody is busy doing double major, stuffing their heads with straight As internships, exchange programs. The once vigorous and diversified voices have thinned into one: be the one that suits need of the job market. Ladies and gentlemen, it means the dreams should relevant to reality. But now, aren’t we college students too much bound by this reality? If dreams are simply reality shows, can they still be called dreams? A couple weeks ago, I read the story of Ma Yan, who had to drop out of school because of poverty. She said she wanted to go to school so that her family could live a better life. However, growing up impressed by Martin Luther king’s I have a dream talk and the Chinese proverb that everyone is born to be somebody. My classmates and I may think that we are less driven than this starving little girl. But aren’t we making any difference, if we are not being true to ourselves? Ladies and gentlemen, Steven jobs, CEO of apple computer, once said, our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else life. I think it’s especially true with us twenty something, who are sort of feeling disoriented in face of dream and reality. The other night, my roommate complained to me what