【正文】 or each of these five elderly people over the example teacher us that the essence and power of the volunteering spirit is not only in offering help to anyone,but also in doing so whenever and indeed,whenever it is practical terms,this means that we do not have to wait until the treeplanting day to plant a tree for the beeterment of , we don39。t have to wait untill the trudami hits the headliness to help poor people living in south Asia,and we do not have to wait untill the Olympic Games begin to show our hospitality to jour foreign Churchill once said.”We make a living what we get。we make a life by what we give.“Ladies and gentlemen,I hope every one of you earns a wonderful living and gets plenty but I hope every more that all of us by giving people in need part of whatever were blessed with,can lead a fulfilling life we will never regret having 39。s all for my 第3名 楊赫 清華大學(xué)Honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen,good believe we need a longer March in March 5th, 2005,I volunteered to visit an orphanage with may kids there were very excited about our visit and we had a great time little girl impressed me followed me everywhere and kept asking me questions of all we left the orphanage, I said to the little girl ,”Maybe, I can make one of your wishes e you had just one wish, what would it be?“ After a short hesitation, she replied,” I wish......I wish every month was March, because you won39。t e back to me after es back to me after March.“ I was shocked by her felt great pain inside and realized that something was not going month of March is called ”the Month of Lei Feng in China.“ Lei Feng was a Chinese soldior admired for his willness to help memory of him, it is advocated that we do some voluntary work in there anything wrong with ”the month of Lei Feng? Of course others through voluntary work is a glorious tradition we should always ,one month alone, is not enough to keep the little girl39。s heart warm throughout the year, one month alone, is not enough to bring our love and care to those who are always in need a longer March in should last all year can we do to achieve this goal,then? What can we do to make the little girl39。s dream e true? Here two of my first is, we should continue to promote the idea that when we give, we also should be grateful to those who need our love and care, for it is through helping them that we receive acknowledgement and respect, and it is through helping them that we realize our personal value and achieve a sense of feel grateful to those children in the t was thses children who helped me realize that I am useful and I am second suggestion is, everybody, if possible , should start doing voluntary work right not wait until you are not wait until you get action now ,and make a mitment to our small donation to poor children won39。t immediately change their our smiles we bring to the patients fighting against cancer won39。t immediately relieve their ,I believe, our consistent and constant efforts throughout the year will surely bring voluntary work in China toward a better judges, ladies and gentlemen, we are approaching the end of March is over , do we stop giving love and care to those who need it ? When March is over , do we pack up our volunteer spirit and store it in the closet until next year? No, that was not wha we want!We want a longer need a longer March, long enough to warm up those lonely and hopeless hearts, long enough to allow the flowers of our volunteer spirit to bloom and grow you!第十二屆全國英語演講比賽 第10名 馬倩兒 澳門大學(xué)Good afternoon ,ladies and gentleman!When I was little ,I was so idealistic that I dreamed of helping the world by ending world I grew up ,thinking that i was too insigificant to affect change ,I just let go of my all these years,I observed that the older I got ,the less I ?Whether I had legitimate reasons or apologetic excuses ,it remains that I didn39。t held much as i wanted many of you ,like me ,had grand dreams of affecting the lives of millions of people ?How many of you ,like me，started turning your attention inward the older ou got ?How many of you ,like me，became less and less idealistic and more and more pessimistic about the ability of one person to make a difference ?Ladies and gentlemen,do you know about the enviromental crisis?It was this issue that brought my opitimism back and made me remember that one person can makea joined a nameless team of volunteers to help save the team gave me an opportunity to be an everyday volunteer without joining and i joined this team ,I was ignorant to the fact that the Earth needed now i know that we are facting a global can be fatal if we overlook the don。t mean to scare you but by the time i finish my forminute speech ,400 acres of rainforests will have been cut years B,a gigantic piece of ice ,12 times the size of Hong Kong fell into the ocean and does it matter ?It matters if we care about the disapparance of Hong Kong and Shanghai from the face of the matters because if Antarcties meltes,according to former President Al Gore ,the sea level will rise by is almost the herght of basketball star Yao ming ,three times have given you some alarming statistics and painted a grim alarming and grim as they are ,it was precisely this information that changed my was precisely this changed in attiude that gave me a sense of urgency to start volunteering to help save the was precisely because i did not want to stake my children39。s fufure on my current actions that made me not decide to do somthing ,but to simply do off the lights ,turn off the tap ,use less paper ,walk more ,recycle have bae my this experience ,i have learned that i can be a volunteer and serve the munity even if i am not a member of any concrete and physical have learn that the essence of voluntarism lied not within the organization ,not even within the name of the cause ,but within have learned that personal growth is a long process that begins with ignorance and ends