【正文】 control, platform manner, and so is important, yet of greater importance is this: Is your language petent enough to express your ideas exactly the way you intend them to be understood?I was informed afterwards that I was chosen to be the winner for my appropriately worded speech, excellent presence and quickwitted so remarking, the judges clearly showed their preference: they e to listen for meaningful ideas, not for loose judgments, nor easy contestants failed to address their questions head were able to, but did not know where to stop—the dragging on betrayed their lack of root cause was that they did not listen attentively to the they were thinking of what they had I said in my speech, It is vitally important that we young people do more serious thinking...to take them [issues like globalization] on and give them honest thinking is the first step to be prepared for both opportunities and challenges ing our need to respond petition like this draws talented students from all over the of course, I learnt more things than just about public in the final analysis, public speaking is all about effective this goes true for all munications, whatever their the following is the final version of my speech:第五篇：第十屆“21世紀(jì)杯”全國(guó)英語(yǔ)演講比賽冠軍演講稿Building Bridges for the FutureI’m studying in a city that’s famous for its who visit my city are amazed at the imposing sight of its walls, especially when silhouetted against the setting sun with gold, shining old, cracked bricks are covered with lichens and the walls are weatherbeaten guards standing still for ancestors liked to build built walls in Beijing, Xi’an, Nanjing and many other cities, and they built the Great Wall, which snakes across half our built walls to protect against enemies and evil tradition has survived to this day: we still have many parks and schools walled off from the a long time, walls were one of the most natural things in the world to perceptions, however, changed after I made a hiking trip to the eastern suburbs of my classmates and I were walking with some foreign we walked out of the city, we found ourselves flanked by tall trees, which formed a wide canopy above our one foreign student asked me, “Where is the entrance to the eastern suburbs?”“We’re already in the eastern suburbs,” I seemed taken aback, “I thought you Chinese had walls for everything.” His remark set off a heated one point, he likened our walled cities to “jails”, while I insisted that the eastern suburbs were one of the many places in China that had no debate had no winners, but I did learn a lot from this instance, he told me that some major universities like Oxford and Cambridge were not surrounded by have to admit that we do have many walls in China, and as we develop our country, we must look carefully at them and decide whether they are physical or will keep some walls but tear down those that impede our me give another year ago, when I was working on a term paper, I needed a book on business law and found a copy in the law school , the librarian coldly rejected my request to borrow it, saying, “You can’t borrow this book, you’re not a student here.” In the end, I had to spend 200 yuan to buy a , the copy in the law school gathered dust on the the beginning of this semester, I heard that my university had started to think of unifying its libraries and linking them to libraries at other universities, so my experience wouldn’t be would be replaced by interlibrary loan system would give us access to books from any globalization and China integrated into the world, I believe many of these intangible walls will be knocked know that globalization is a controversial issue, and it is hard to say whether it is good or one thing is for sure: it draws our attention to China’s tangible and intangible walls and forces us to examine their role in the modern how about the ancient walls of mine and other cities? Should we tear them down? Definitely city, like Beijing and other cities, is actually making a great effort to preserve the walls attract historians, archaeologists, and many schoolchildren who are trying to study our history and cultural have bee bridges to our past and to the rest of the the ancient builders of these walls were still alive today, they would be proud to see such great changes in the role of their are now bridges that link East and West, South and North, and all countries of the cultural heritage will survive globalization.