A word that has changed the world

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,my name is Chenmiao,It’s my

great honour to stand here to give a speech.Today I am going to talk

about three apples that have changed the world.They are not the apples

which you see and buy in the market. Those apples are not available to

eat . Maybe you couldn try to eat an apple from hundreds of years ago.

Firstly, From the moment that Eve picked a apple, Human beings

are tied to apples . what driving her just were humanity's

eternal curiosity and converse, but had not thought of opening

the door to new world.Since the fruit is symbolic, representing

the efforts that human renegade fixed patterns from generation

to generation .

The another anpple , then hit the most the intelligent head

of human beings.whether is Newton's story true or false, it left

beauty on the road which humans explore the world.

The next is Steve Jobs’s apple. The perfectionist and

paranoid designed a new perception of the world for people,

making a product become a religious, part of the humans started thinking about the possibility of the New World,but Most

humans do not have to think, only need to accept. Therefore,there is the famous microblogging scripts:up to now,

There are 3 famous apples have a major impact on human history, one tempted Eve,one woke up Newton ,and another is in the hands of the Jobe.

Snow White died due to eating poison apple, Paris Prince giave the golden apple to Aphrodite caused the Trojan War, Hera’s wedding present was Golden Apple, William · fall launched the people's uprising in Switzerland,and the most important props are apples , New York is a big apple, We all love to eat apple pie ... ...Humans’ cultural and history are always tangled with the apples.

But the apple is just a symbol of human’s choice, focus is on that what we are faced with after we took it over. All apples represent an unknown world ,Just as Li Niao faced two capsules in "The Matrix": Red or Blue ?Just did he go back as nothing happened,or did he go to see another world still with us ?We chose apples, because we were tired of the present old model, Not to say that the old model is not good,but the original curiosity of humans that drives us to see what is behind the gates.

第二篇：英语口语大赛冠军演讲稿

A Scene to Remember

Gu Qiubei

Shanghai International Studies University

Advisor: Gong Longsheng

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Today I would like to begin with a story.

There was once a physical 1) therapist who traveled all the way from America to Africa to do a 2) census about mountain 3) gorillas. These gorillas are a main attraction to tourists from all over the world; this put them severely under threat of 4) poaching and being put into the zoo. She went there out of curiosity, but what she saw strengthened her determination to devote her whole life to fighting for those beautiful creatures. She witnessed a scene, a scene taking us to a place we never imaged we've ever been, where in the very depth of the African rainforest, surrounded by trees, flowers and butterflies, the mother gorillas 5) cuddled their babies.

Yes, that's a memorable scene in one of my favorite movies, called Gorillas in the Mist, based on a true story of Mrs. Dian Fossey, who spent most of bet lifetime in Rwanda to protect the ecoenvironment

there until the very end of her life.

To me, the movie not only presents an unforgettable scene but also acts as a 6) timeless reminder that we should not develop the tourist industry at the cost of our ecoenvironment.

Today, we live in a world of prosperity but still threatened by so many new problems. On the one hand, tourism, as one of the most promising industries in the 21st century, provides people with the great opportunity to see everything there is to see and to go any place there is to go. It has become a lifestyle for some people, and has turned out to be the driving force in GDP growth. It has the magic to turn a backward town into a wonderland of prosperity. But on the other hand, many problems can occur---natural scenes aren't natural anymore. Deforestation to heat lodges is devastating Nepal. Oil spills from tourist boats are polluting Antarctica. Tribal people are forsaking their native music and dress to listen to U2 on Walkman and wear Nike and Reeboks.

All these 7) appalling(令人震惊的) facts have brought us to the realization that we can no longer

stand by and do nothing, because the very thought of it has been 8) eroding(侵蚀) our resources. Encouragingly, the explosive growth of global travel has put tourism again in the spotlight, which is why the United Nations has made 2002 the year of ecotourism, for the first time to bring to the world's attention the benefits of tourism, but also its capacity to destroy our ecoenvironment.

Now every year, many local ecoenvironmental protection organizations an: receiving donations--big notes, small notes or even coins--from housewives, 9) plumbers(水管工人), ambulance drivers, salesmen, teachers, children and 10) invalids(残疾人), Some of them can not afford to send the money but they do. These are the ones who drive the cabs, who nurse in hospitals, who are suffering from ecological damage in their neighborhood. Why? Because they care. Because they still want their Mother Nature back. Because they know it still belongs to them.

This kind of feeling that I have, ladies and gentlemen, is when it feels like it, smells like it, and looks like it, it's all coming from a scene to remember, a

scene to recall and to cherish.

The other night, as l saw the moon linger over the land and before it was sent into the invisible, my mind was filled with songs. I found myself humming softly, not to the music, but to some- thing else, someplace else. a place remembered, a place untouched, a field of grass where no one seem to have been except the deer. And all those unforgettable scenes strengthened the feeling that it's lime for us to do something, for our own and our coming generation.

Once again, I have come to think of Mrs. Dian Fossey be- cause it's with her spirit, passion, courage and strong sense of our ecoenvironment that we are taking our next step into the world.

And no matter who we are, what we do and where we go, in our mind, there's always a scene to remember, a scene worth our effort to protect it and fight for it.

Thank you very much.