【正文】 　　When my mother crossed the threshold of higher education into college, she was experiencing the tides of the Reform and Openingup. It was an age when China was ready to embrace the world. With the demand for English talents staying high, she brought her talents to the field of international trade, with the hope of broadening her horizon and telling her international clients a Chinese story.
　　30 years later, it is already a new era when I step into the classroom where my mom and my grandma studied. The ambience in the renovated classroom is urging me to embark on a new journey。s footsteps, at the same university. I want to acplish a dream that has been passed on for three generations.
　　When grandma entered college, she was in the age of prime, but education wasnamp。 with a very strong Chinese accent. Meanwhile, my Scottish professor has now equipped himself with Wechat and Alipay, assimilating seamlessly into the local life here.
　　The old era is like a cocoon, protecting us from possible dangers outside and providing us with warmth and fort. However, an overreliance on memories and experiences of a longgone past can also hinder us from genuine, meaningful interactions for the future, just as the cocoon can also serve as a wall to bar us from the beautiful world outside. But in order to make a brandnew attire or to build a modern silk road, we have to plunge the cocoons into hot water and obtain the silk despite the pain. So ladies and gentlemen, donamp。 amp。 amp。t escape the illusion built up by the last generation of Chinese students: gauche and diffident, unable to articulate themselves in English.
　　Nevertheless, such stereotypes are being a thing of the past. When professors around the globe meet with an increasing number of students from China with both language proficiency and academic petence, wellqualified students will no longer be a surprise. Moreover, with more people going abroad and enjoying firsthand encounters with different cultures, people like my grandma will no longer be subject to the fossilized, antiquated narrative of the past. The interesting thing is, after I told my grandma my experiences in Japan, how clean, safe and beautiful their cities are and how nice, polite and considerate their people are, she gladly removed Japan from the list of leastwanttovisit foreign countries and put it instead to the mostwanttovisit one.
　　Even the shop owner near my campus is now repenting for his peccadillo. When gradually more international purchasers bee his patrons, he would no longer treat them differently. And he would even occasionally call out for them, yelling amp。t you?amp。 She said, amp。Iamp。Are you really from China?amp。 are rich and unable to understand Chinese. My amiable professor, unwilling to start a conflict, would always pay the undue price even though he was only meagerly paid by my university and was able to speak perfect Mandarin.
　　As a student of humanities, Iamp。d like to believe those particles traveled through countless eras to create us, so that we, the people, China, and the world, can stand on the shoulders of giants, march into the new era with our head held high, and make people like Professor Hawking proud.
　　英語比賽演講稿篇二
　　When I was still a freshman in college, one Scottish professor plained to me about being overcharged at a grocery store. He explained that many business owners in China would assume that w