305-大学生英语演讲稿:Crossing the Sea

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大学生英语演讲稿:Crossing the Sea
    Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. The title of my speech
today is "Crossing the Sea" . An English poet by the name of Rudyard
Kipling once wrote in this poem "We and They" :
  All the people like us are We
  and everyone else is They
  We live over the sea
  While They live over the way
  We eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knives
  They who gobble their rice off a leaf
  Are horrified out of their lives.
  When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shocked--how could
two people remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past?
Today's society, of course, is an entirely different picture. Those people
who used to eat with gobble their rice might be as well have taken to
fish and chips.
    Indeed, just take China as example; Our modern life has been
influenced by Western style of living in so many ways that it's no longer
surprising to see teenagers going crazy about rock-and-roll, whole
families dining out at McDonald's and even rather elderly people
dressed in Apple Jeans.
  However, these are only some expressions of the cultural changes
taking place in our society today. What is really going on is a subtle but
significant restructuring of the nation's mentality. Just look around.
  How many college graduates are ready to compete aggressively for
every job opportunity, whereas not long ago they were asked just to sit
idle and wait for whatever was to be assigned to them by the
government?
  How many young people are now eager to seek for an independent
life whereas only two decades ago they would rely totally on their
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