目录第三届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军梁励敏3第三届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛亚军芮成钢7第四届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军蔡力11第六届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军戚悦13第七届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军孙宁15第八届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军顾秋蓓19第九届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军洪晔21第十届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军夏鹏23目录第一章 寻访记忆 引子 美丽的女主播，刘欣 思维的游戏 梁励敏 演讲就要言之有物 芮成钢 Is There a Short Cut？孙宁 Be yourself 顾秋蓓 无一不可入演讲 洪晔 平谈中透着哀伤 夏鹏 第二章 昨日重现（原声） 第一届 央视环球了望选段 刘欣 第二届 穿洋越海 梁励敏 第三届 东西方相聚 芮成钢 第四届 我们和黄河一道成长 蔡力 第六届 新北京，三色新奥运 戚悦 第七届 全球化：中国年轻一代所面临的挑战与机遇 孙宁 第八届 难忘的一幕 顾秋蓓 第九届 机会之门就在前方 洪晔 第十届 城墙与桥梁 夏鹏 第三章 明灯导航 “21世纪杯”英语演讲的艺术 史蒂芬卢卡斯 第三只眼看演讲 吴杏莲 附录 “21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛和流程简介 历届比赛一览第三届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军梁励敏梁励敏北京外国语大学梁励敏，生于浙江杭州，毕业于北京外国语大学，获英语语言文学硕士学位，研究生期间专攻方向为美国社会研究。2002年进入中央电视台英语频道采访组工作，所采写的新闻获得2003年全国新闻彩虹奖二等奖。专家点评:引用文学大师的诗句作为开场白，与结束语首尾呼应，颇有感染力。东西方文化的融合表现得十分鲜明，意味深长，是篇优秀的演讲。Crossing the SeaGood 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 his poem We and They:All the people like us are WeAnd everyone else is TheyWe live over the seaWhile They live over the wayWe eat pork and beef with cowhorn-handled knivesThey who gobble their rice off a leafAre horrified out of their lives.When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shocked-how could two peoples remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past? Todays society, of course, is an entirely different picture. Those people who used to eat with cowhorn-handled knives might be very skillful in using chopsticks, and those people who used to gobble their rice might be as well have taken to fish and chips.Indeed, just take China as an example: Our modern life has been influenced by Western style of living in so many ways that its no longer surprising to see teenagers going crazy about rock-and-roll, whole families dining out at McDonalds 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 nations 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 parents to arrange for their future? Ask anyone who participates in todays speech contest. Who has not come with a will to fight and who has not come determined to achieve self-fulfillment in winning the game? And Im quite certain that if Confucius had lived to see todays China, he would have been horrified to see young lovers kissing each other in public places in an unreserved expression of their passion.It is therefore evident that we as descendants of an ancient Eastern civilization are already living under strong inf1uence of the Western culture. But it is not only in China that we find the incorporation of the two cultures.Take the United States as an example: During the 1980s,in face of the overwhelming competition from Japan, many American companies such as the Ford began to adopt a teamwork management from their rivals, the essence of which, lay at the very core of Eastern culture.Take the Chinese acupuncture as another example: This traditional treatment of diseases is finally finding its way to the West and hence the underlying notion that illness is resulted from the imbalance between Yin and Yang within the body - an idea which would strike any Westerner as incredible in the past!Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in a great epoch when the global integration of economy and the information revolution have brought cultures of the world closer than ever before. We live in a particular era when countries, East and West, find themselves in need of readjusting their traditional values. We live, at the same time, at a critical juncture of our evolution because such problems as ethnic conflicts and regional unrest are increasingly posing a threat to the peace and happiness of the whole human race. To cope with such an era and to embrace an even brighter future, we need to learn to live more harmoniously in a world community which is becoming smaller and smaller.My dear fellow students, our command of the English language renders it possible for us to gain an insight into Western culture while retaining our own cultural identity.Therefore, it is our sacred responsibility to promote the cultural exchanges and hence the mutual understanding between China and the rest of the world.It is my happiest dream that the new generation of Chinese will not only grow up drinking Coca-Cola and watching Hollywood, but also be blessed with the far-reaching benefits of multiple cultures; benefits that our forefathers had nev