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1、What Is Real Beauty?It is human nature that all of us should be fond of beauty. Eve rybody was born with a heart for beauty.Today in China,with the rising of our living standard, peoples requirement of beauty has been heightened accordingly. Some people spare no money or energy on beautiful clothes,
2、 fashionable hair styl es,the decoration of their houses and even the improvement of their looks. But it seems to me,allthese are more or less confined to the beauty in appearance,or rathe r,the outward beauty.In my opinion,we shouldnt only pay attention to beautiful appe arance and neglect the beau
3、tification of the mind and what we are af ter should be the perfect unity of the outward beauty and the inner beauty. As we all know,so far as objects and animals are concerned,t here is only beautiful appearance to be mentioned, but to us humanbe ings, although the outward beauty really matters, th
4、e inner beauty is much more important. This was confirmed by a famous Russian writer in words much like this: A person isnot lovely for being beautiful but beautiful for being lovely. Here, Id like to quote two typical instances and Im sure, mydear friends,from them youll find out what real beauty i
5、s.Recently I learned from the radio an unpleasant incident about a well known singer. She is very charming with a sweet beautiful voi ce and very famous for singing the song.Devotion of Love. Not long ago,she was invited to Zhejiang Province to give performance. The m oment she was to appear on the
6、stage,she suddenly asked for more rew ard. Worse still,after her request was satisfied, she didnt begin to sing at once. Instead,she took her time to count all the money pie ce by piece. Thus she kept the audience waiting for half an hour. So when she at last showed up and started to sing Devotion o
7、f Love,a man rose up from his seat and shouted at her,You dont have any de votion of love. You are not qualified to sing this song ! Hearing this, the singer stopped singing and began to shout abuses with her f inger pointed at the man. At this time the whole audience burst into an uproar.How disapp
8、ointed her keen listeners were when they learned th is! It is the singer herself who spoiled her beautiful image in theeyes of others.Now, Im coming to another true story. Its about a poor, ordin ary looking old woman. She was a widow without any children, living barely from hand to mouth by picking
9、 odds and ends from rubbish heap s. However,she took in more than ten homeless orphans successively and managed to bring them up. Every day she labored from morning till night. In order to earn as much money as possible to raise the chil dren and to keep them in school,she even went to a hospital re
10、gularl y to sell her blood. She got so weak for the loss of blood that she sometimes fell in a faint on her way home.When asked why she chose to burden herself with so many children,she smiled and simply answered,Oh,I love children and I like to have their company. Though the old woman was poor mate
11、rially, she was full of affection and rich in spirit. She was loved dearly by her children. She w as also highly appreciated by the local government, and truly respec ted by people in her community.Maybe you cant help wondering, What makes that ordinary woman so e xtraordinary? It is nothing else bu
12、t her inner beauty, her true devotion of love without any thought of rewarding. What a sharp contras t there is between the great woman and the selfish singerSo,to answer the question What is real beauty?, I declare definitely,it is the beauty lying in ones heart of hearts and embodi ed in his actio
13、ns and deeds,that is,the inner heauty!（96 年湖南省第二届非英语专业大学生英语演讲比赛团体二等奖获奖者之一的演讲辞）Responsibility is a Badge of Honour for YouthFacing this audience on the stage, I have the exciting feelin g of participating in the march of history, for what we are facing t oday is more than a mere competition or contes
14、t. It is an assembly o f some of Chinas most talented and motivated people, representative s of a younger generation that are preparing themselves for the comi ng of a new century.Im grateful that Ive been given this opportunity, at such a historic moment, to stand here as a spokesman of my generati
15、on and to take a serious look back at the past 15 years, a crucial period for every one of us and for this nation as well.Though it is only within my power to tell about my personal e xperience, and only a tiny fragment of it at that, it still represents, I believe, the root of a spirit which has been essential to me a nd to all the people bred by the past 15 years.In my elementary years, there was a little girl in the classwho worked very hard but somehow could never do satisfactorily in her lessons.The teacher asked me to help her, and it was obvious that s
