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相对中文演讲,我更喜欢英语演讲,而且一向喜欢自己写稿子,觉得很有成就感。这篇是我为本学期英语听力课考试写的初稿,放在这里,让自己开心。
Never Had A Dream Come True
Never Had A Dream Come True is a name of the song sang by S Club 7.I like it very much. And my original plan is to sing the song for you. But I find that I’m not very good at singing, so I want to say something else for you.
I think most of you maybe know Randy Pausch. He is the science professor of Carnegie Mellon University. In September, 2007, Pausch had make a speech to about 400 students and colleagues relating to how to make the most of life. When Pausch agreed to give the talk, he was participating in a long-standing academic tradition that calls on professors to share their wisdom in a theoretical "last lecture." A month before the speech, the 46-year-old Pausch was told he had only months to live, a prognosis that heightened the poignancy of his address. It is reported that several millions had viewed this on the Internet.
The speech made Pausch famous all over the world. It was almost a shared secret, a peek into him telling his colleagues and students to go on and do great things. It touched so many people because it was authentic.
At the beginning of the class, Pausch said If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you. He used that line after projecting CT scans, complete with helpful arrows pointing to the tumors on his liver as he addressed "the elephant in the room" that made every word carry more weight. In the class, Pausch touched on just about everything but religion while raucously reliving how he achieved most of his childhood dreams. His ambitions included experiencing the weightlessness of zero gravity; writing an article in the World Book Encyclopedia; wanting to be both a Disney Imagineer and Captain Kirk from "Star Trek"; and playing professional football. Onstage, Pausch was a frenetic verbal billboard, delivering as mangy one-liners as he did phrases to live by.
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