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1、-范文最新推荐- The Great Society president hatcher, governor romney, senators mcnamara and hart, congressmen meader and staebler, and other members of the fine michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow americans:it is a great pleasure to be here today. this university has been coeduc
2、ational since 1870, but i do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a detroit high school girl said (and i quote), in choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school. well, we can find both here at michigan, although
3、 perhaps at different hours. i came out here today very anxious to meet the michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his son's education had been a real value. it stopped his mother from bragging about him.i have come today from the turmoil of your capital to the tranquility of y
4、our campus to speak about the future of your country. the purpose of protecting the life of our nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our people. our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a nation.for a century we labored to settle and to sub
5、due a continent. for half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people. the challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality
6、 of our american civilization.your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. for in your time we have the opportunity to m
7、ove not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the great society.the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. but that is just the beginning.the great society
8、is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. it is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. it is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the deman
9、ds of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. it is a place where man can renew contact with nature. it is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what is adds to the understanding of the race. it is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of the
10、ir goals than the quantity of their goods.but most of all, the great society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. it is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.so i
11、want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the great society - in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms.many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million americans - four-fifths of them in urban areas. in the rem
12、ainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes and highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. so in the next 40 years we must re-build the entire urban united states.aristotle said: men come toge
13、ther in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life. it is harder and harder to live the good life in american cities today. the catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs. there is not enough housing for our peop
14、le or transportation for our traffic. open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated. worst of all expansion is eroding these precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. the loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference.and our
15、 society will never be great until our cities are great. today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders. new experiments are already going on. it will be the task of your generation to make the american city a place where future generations will
16、come, not only to live, but to live the good life. and i understand that if i stayed here tonight i would see that michigan students are really doing their best to live the good life.this is the place where the peace corps was started.it is inspiring to see how all of you, while you are in this coun
17、try, are trying so hard to live at the level of the people.a second place where we begin to build the great society is in our countryside. we have always prided ourselves on being not only america the strong and america the free, but america the beautiful. today that beauty is in danger. the water w
18、e drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution. our parks are overcrowded, our seashores overburdened. green fields and dense forests are disappearing.a few years ago we were greatly concerned about the ugly american. today we must act to prevent an ugly americ
19、a.for once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. and once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.a third place to build the great society is in the classrooms of america. there your
20、children's lives will be shaped. our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. we are still far from that goal. today, 8 million adult americans, more than the entire population of michigan, have not finished 5 years of
21、school. nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. nearly 54 million - more than one quarter of all america - have not even finished high school.each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. and if we cannot ed
22、ucate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary school enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? and high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. and college enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.in many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated
23、. most of our qualified teachers are underpaid and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. so we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.but more classrooms and more teachers are not en
24、ough. we must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. this means better training for our teachers. it means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. it means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate
25、the love of learning and the capacity for creation.these are three of the central issues of the great society. while our government has many programs directed at those issues, i do not pretend that we have the full answer to those problems. but i do promise this: we are going to assemble the best th
26、ought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers for america.i intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of white house conferences and meetings - on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges. and from thes
27、e meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to set our course toward the great society.the solution to these problems does not rest on a massive program in washington, nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority. they require us to create new con
28、cepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the national capital and the leaders of local communities.woodrow wilson once wrote: every man sent out from his university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time.within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take
29、us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination.for better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead america toward a new age. you have the chance never before afforded to any people in
30、any age. you can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the nation.so, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which god enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of hi
31、s skin?will you join in the battle *to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty?will you join in the battle to make it possible for all nations to live in enduring peace - as neighbors and not as mortal enemies?will you join in the battle to build the great society, to prove
32、that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?there are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. i do not agree. we have the power to shape the civilization that we want. but we need y
33、our will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society.those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country. they sought a new world. so i have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality. so let us from this moment begin o
34、ur work so that in the future men will look back and say: it was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life.thank you. good-bye.* 本文曾获得北京电视台、国家教育部举办的 my teacher 英语演讲比赛优胜奖。在以“我的老师”为主题的演讲会上，这篇演讲出人意料地将计算机称作自己的老师，以吸引听众的注意。然后又用事实与推理证明计算
35、机确实是一个“老师”，从而赢得了听众的共鸣。某些语言上的不足之处点评修改如下：(1)在every后，territory用复数，显然是错误的。另外，表示“各个领域”，用field为好。(2)原文时态用错了。(3)concept是可数名词。make后的宾语补语如果是不定式的话，要省略to。另外，一般不用被动不定式，而只用过去分词。deeply也有中国式英语之嫌。(4)help sb. (to)do，不用 doing。 ladies and gentlemen,i have had a lot of teachers in my school who have given me much help
36、in my study. for their help i will never forget them. but today i am going to talk about a special teacher of mine. this teacher is not a human being and its name is“computer”. it has been teaching me a lot of knowledge and i appreciate it very much.how can i interact with a computer? there are many
37、 ways, including keyboard, mouse pointer, and touch screen. i often use a keyboard. when i press right keys, i can see and hear whatever i want. information world is at my fingertip. i wish that true speech input-output system would be invented one day.as teachers, computers have a lot of virtues： t
38、hey are positive, they have good memories and never lose any information stored in them. they have much knowledge in every field. they can let out all kinds of sounds, and can also improve the efficiency of our study. for example, if i want to, i can skip some chapters so that i can study at my own
39、pace.although computers will never take the place of human teachers, they are welcomed by more and more learners. computers will continue to evolve(发展)with the aid of modern technologies. computers are so powerful, helpful and important that everybody needs it, especially in the future! i love my co
40、mputer teacher!thank you.北京市第十五中学高中 秦 燕 today i am very glad to be here to share with you my ideas of success. what is success? it is what everyone is longing for.sometimes success would be rather simple. winning a game is success; getting a high grade in the exam is success; making a new friend is
41、success; even now i amstanding here giving my speech is somehow also success.however, as a person¡¯s whole life is concerned, success becomes verycomplicated. is fortune success? is fame success? is high social status success? no, i don¡¯t think so. i believe success is the rea
42、lization of people¡¯s hopes and ideals.nowadays, in the modern society there are many peoplewho are regarded as the successful. and the most obvious characteristics of hem are money, high position and luxurious life. so most people believe that s success and all that they do is for this p
43、urpose. but the problem is wether it is real success. we all know there are always more money, higher position and better condition in front of us. if we keep chasing them, where is the end? what will satisfy us at last? therefore, we can see, to get the real success we must need something inside, w
44、hich is the realization ofpeople¡¯ hopes and ideals.different people have different ideas about success; cause people¡¯s hopes and ideas vary from one another. but i am sure every success is dear to everybody, cause it is not easy to come by, cause in the process of our strivin
45、g for success, we got both our body and soul tempted, meanwhile we are enlightened by the most valuable qualities of human beings: love, patient, courage and sense of responsibility. these are the best treasures. so now i am very proud that i have this opportunity to stand here speaking to all of yo
46、u. it is my success, cause i raise up to challenge my hope.what is success? everyone has his own interpretation as i do. but i am sureevery success leads to an ever-brighter future. so ladies and gentlemen, believe in our hopes, believe in ourselves, we, every one of us, can make asuccessful life!wi
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48、;¸å-¡°21êà¼í¡¤°®á¢ð屡±è«¹úó¢óïñý½²±èèü¹ú¾üµãö÷ñý½²¸åto me march 28th was a lucky day. it was on that particular evening that i found myself at central stage,