【正文】 my a long time, walls were one of themost natural things in the perception, however, changed after a hiking trip to the Eastern Suburbs, a scenic area of my classmates and I were walking with some international we walked out of the city, we found ourselves flanked by taller and taller trees, which formed a huge canopy above our an international student asked me, “Where is the entrance to theEastern Suburbs?”“We39。the campuses were just part of the have to admit that we do have many walls in China, and as we are developing our country, we must carefully examine them, whether they are physical or will keep some walls but tear down those that impede China39。t borrow this book, you are not a student here.” In the end, I had to spend 200 yuan buying a copy。s tangible and intangible walls and forces us to examine their roles in the modern how about the ancient walls in my city and other cities? Should we tear them down? Just the city, like Beijing and other cities, is actually making a great effort to preserve the walls attract not only historians and archeologists but also many schoolchildren trying to study our history and cultural have turned into 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 change 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.第三篇：第十屆“21世紀(jì)杯”全國英語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