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夏鹏英语演讲稿 英语演讲(夏鹏Walls and Bridges) Thank you ladies and gentlemen. My topic today is Walls and Bridges. I#39;m studying in a city famous for its city walls. All visitors to my city are amazed by the imposing sight of the city walls, silhouetted by the setting sun with gold and shining lines. With old cracked bricks patched with lichen, the walls are weather-beaten guards, standing still for centuries in protecting the city. Our ancestors liked to build walls. They built walls in Beijing, Xi抋n, Nanjing and many other cities, and they built the Great wall which snakes through half of our country. They built walls to ward off the enemies and evil spirits. This tradition has been maintained to this day as we still have many schools and parks walled off from the public. I grew up at the foot of the city walls, and I have been loving them since my childhood. For a long time, walls were one of the most natural things in the world. My perception, however, changed after a hiking trip to the Eastern Suburbs, a scenic area of my city. My classmates and I were walking with some international students. As we walked out of the city, we found ourselves flanked by taller and taller trees which formed a huge canopy above our heads. Suddenly an international student asked me, 搘here is the entrance to the Eastern Suburbs??揥e抮e already in the Eastern Suburbs,?I replied. He seemed taken aback. 揑 thought you Chinese have walls for everything.?His remark set off a heated debate. At one point, he likened our walled cities to 搄ails? while I insisted that the Eastern Suburbs was one of the many places in China that had no walls. That debate had no winners, but I did learn a lot from this international student. For instance, he told me universities like oxford and Cambridge were not surrounded by walls, the campuses were just a part of the cities. I have to admit that we do have many walls in china, and as we are developing our country, we must carefully examine them, w