大学生英语演讲稿：Crossing the Sea

　　Good 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 this poem "We and They" :

　　All the people like us are We

　　and everyone else is They

　　We live over the sea

　　While They live over the way

　　We eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knives

　　They who gobble their rice off a leaf

　　Are horrified out of their lives.

　　When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shocked--how could two people remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past? Today's society, of course, is an entirely different picture. Those people who used to eat with gobble their rice might be as well have taken to fish and chips.

　　Indeed, just take China as example; Our modern life has been in