【正文】 nd of on the other hand, many problems can occurbig notes, small notes or even coinsfrom housewives, plumbers, ambulance drivers, salesmen, teachers, children and of them cannot afford to send the money but they are the ones who drive the cabs, who nurse in hospitals, who are suffering from ecological damage in their ? Because they they still want their Mother Nature they know it still belongs to ，筆記，甚至小硬幣從家庭主婦，管道工，救護車司機，售貨員，教師，兒童和殘疾人。The other night, as I saw the moon linger over the land and before it was sent into the invisible, my mind was filled with found myself humming softly, not to the music, but to something else, someplace else, a place remembered, a place untouched, a field of grass where no one seemed to have been except the ，我看見月亮徘徊在土地和前被送進了無形的，心里卻充滿了歌曲。therefore, I sprinted on and left him behind in the few kilometers later, I began to understand his strategy as my pace slowed to a jog then a that I was incapable of moving another was humiliated as more and more people ran passed than once I thought “Maybe I should quit.” I started to doubt my ability to finish this this moment, my running mate caught up with me and slapped me on the back.“Follow me,” he had balanced his marathon pace and was encouraged me to do the the rest of this grueling contest, we walked, jogged, ran a few miles, and walked , painfully but hopefully this time, we established the most suitable pace within the natural flow of our physical we acplished our first Marathon of 42 kilometers in 4 and half asked myself, what did this marathon mean to me? My Marathon experience became an influential metaphor for my life about how we must learn to pace ourselves in everything, by being in tune with the rhythm of the tide that ebbs and flows, we must listen to advice but make our own the show at dawn and dusk, we must learn to balance pride and from the way the wind can both shout and whisper, we must learn when to be strong and when to be gentle, for everything moves in its own rhythm and its own yin and yang is the interaction of these plementary extremes that produces harmony, as Laozi said, extremes the marathon, this notion of two opposite forces working together has been my running partner, so to and yang exist everywhere, constantly interacting, and never existing in an absolute and Gentlemen, life is like running a marathon, let us discover, define and develop a natural rhythm of life, in order to achieve both harmony and you for listening．第二篇：全國英語演講比賽冠軍演講稿第八屆“21世紀s all ing from a scene to remember, a scene to recall and to other night, as l saw the moon linger over the land and before it was sent into the invisible, my mind was filled with found myself humming softly, not to the music, but to something else, someplace place remembered, a place untouched, a field of grass where no one seem to have been except the all those unforgettable scenes strengthened the feeling that it39。s words “Only connect!”With the IT revolution, traditional boundaries of human society fall culture, politics, society and merce are being sloshed into one large melting pot of this interlinked world, there are no outsiders, for a disturbancein one place is likely to impact other parts of the have begun to realize that a world divided cannot is now actively integrating into the recent entry to the WTO is a good decades, we have taken pride in being selfreliant, but now we realize the importance of participating in and contributing to a broader economic a precarious role in the world arena to our present WTO membership, we have e a long what does the way ahead look like? In some parts of the world people are demonstrating against they justified, then, in criticizing the globalizing world? Instead of narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, they say, globalization enables the developed nations to swallow the developing nations39。s words “Only connect!”With the IT revolution, traditional boundaries of human society fall culture, politics, society and merce are being sloshedsintosone large melting pot of this interlinked world, there are no outsiders, for a disturbance in one place is likely to impact other parts of the have begun to realize that a world divided cannot is now actively integratingsintosthe recent entry to the WTO is a good decades, we have taken pride in being selfreliant, but now we realize the importance of participating in and contributing to a broader economic a precarious role in the world arena to our present WTO membership, we have e a long what does the way ahead look like? In some parts of the world peopleare demonstrating against they justified, then, in criticizing the globalizing world? Instead of narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, they say, globalization enables the developed nations to swallow the developing nations39。t you do a little more to help me, when it was so easy for you? Why didn39。t even afford to go to elementary schools while enormous sums of money are being squandered away on dinner parties and luxury buy shoddy medicines, or merely worthless junk in the name of medicines, that aggravate, rather than alleviate our diseases since money, many people believe, is the most important thing in the world that must be made, even at the expense of morality and an era, therefore, determines that we are a generation with a keener sense of petition and efficiency and a greater readiness to think critically and act an era, furthermore, demands, that we are a generation with a clear perception of our historical responsibility and an aggressive will to take action and solve the has long been preparing these qualities in this generation and it is now calling us forward to give testimony to our patriotism and heroism towards this nation and all here now, I think of the past 15 years of my life as an ordinary I39。s economic are reminded by Karl Marx that capital goes beyond national borders and eludes control from any other has