2018年11月26日周一下午CAS时间上海宏润博源学校届英语演讲比赛开始了。此次比赛旨在激发同学们学习英语的浓厚兴趣，培养同学们辩证思维的能力，锻炼同学们的演讲技能和台风，展现我校同学积极向上的精神风貌。选手由 Steven Bonta老师和徐栋老师指导参赛。

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此次比赛的评比委员会是由学校英语组全体中外教老师共同组成。经过近一个月的认真准备，11月26日下午共有包括外教老师Steven Bonta女儿ElanorBonta在内的8位同学上台角逐，展现了自己的雄辩口才和自信风采。

最后，StevenBonta老师上台对所有演讲 选手的表现进行了点评，他对选手们给予充分肯定和热情赞扬。经过统计所 有英语教师和外教老师对每位选手的打分评出了首届上海宏润博源学校英语 演讲比赛的名次：名，奥珅;第二名，孙晓乐;第三名，许书阳;其余 同学均获得了参与鼓励奖。以下为部分获奖选手作品。

DOES THE WORLD DESERVE IT?

Hi, everyone!

I am Gracygu

In the last decade , some bad things happened to me. Although I didn’t suffer a lot from these, I always feel exhausted with life. When I communicated this condition to some of my friends, it seems that it’s becoming plague, common and infectious. I feel continuous depression, and nothing can make me feel truly happy, or even sadder. I was moved when I saw the sentence: The world doesn't deserve it. I understand it as the human world already have too much satisfactory and sorrow; discrimination, violence, bullying happens all around us every day, and these are not going to stop, at least during our life time. Thus, the way the world works right now don't worth it, don't deserve the hard works, because we may work for nothing.

Since “the world doesn't deserve it.”, so where can we go? We can only stuck in the human world in our long life-time. Recent researches indicated that human is having longer and longer life time, with the development of medical treatments and the civilization. Many of our generation can live for 100-year-old easily. Therefore, the subject I am going to discuss with you today is: Does the world really doesn’t worth it?

First of all, for most of the youth, we are not really ‘don’t care’, we are just ‘afraid to care’, fear of losing. We undoubtedly want what we care, want the beautiful parts in our world, but we use the sentence “The world doesn't deserve it.” as an excuse for not doing it. Lazy people like me focus on our present ease very much. It is clear that hard work is not always successfully, but no effort will be easy, that’s why people chose not to work hard. As a result, we live a life with no effort but still exhausted. Thinking it over, my first impression and love with the sentence “the world doesn't deserve it.” Is just a kind of ostrich’s mind. I am afraid to be proved not to be one of “the special”, do not dare and have the passion to assiduous study and fights for improvements; meanwhile I somehow believed that myself is “the special” and use this sounds lofty sentence to brand myself to seems not associate with the common people. For this kind of people, we really need to find the value of the world. We should find the things we truly love, fight for them, and live our life for hopes. These hopes will keep us going and improving from day to day. Do not think you will be satisfied with your unchanging daily life. You will not. There is a phrase in social psychology and economic called “Marginal utility”. When doing one unchanged thing, the more times we do this thing, the more indifferent we feel, step by step towards boredom. We can’t live without interest, and the passion to improve our interest.

Second, the love and kindness that the world gives you is without the consideration of “do you deserve it”. We, human being have emotions, that makes the worthy not the only measurement for us to do things, but also love. People who loves us do not consider the question: Do we deserve it when they give us their love. My mother often says that it's not worthwhile to pay the high tuition fees for me. I don't know when we will earn this amount of tuition fee back. But she still does so. It's often not worthwhile for us to be good to the people we love if we really measure the repayment. We can choose to be a pessimistic person with the understanding of the world, but only when you are making the people you love and the people love you happy, you can feel less desolation in life. At that time, you can feel the value of living. Even if the world do not worth it, we should make it worthwhile for those who are willing to give us their unworthy without the consideration and measurement in return and worth, so that their love for us can become worthwhile.

Third, as a consumptive species, if we stop working under the thinking of “the world doesn't deserve it.” We are not just going to stay put with our present life standard, we will only fall behind. I often feel that although our life is ordinary, but it is too comfortable. We have no qualifications to lament that the world is not worth it, we now feel that life is boring in such a living standard, is normally given by someone who carries the burden of live for us, often our parent. It’s the dedication of their unworthy. The truth is without their unworthy, we have nothing to live, nothing to be deserved. When that day of our life comes, we have to live with only the support from ourselves. We will have to find out, even our current life standard that we are depressed, bored and complaining, must be kept by our hard works. Like the famous quote in <> “I have tried my best and now I am going through an ordinary life”. Even if there are ordinary life, they have their own ways of living. Among them, there are countless choices. And I believe the beauty of the world is lies in its richness. Some people desperately devotes themselves to the passionate life, while others look coldly from the side-lines, and saying: “the world doesn't deserve it.”

There are a lot of worthy in the world for us to discover and enjoy. When you don’t want to suffer hardships, don't want to try, don't want to persist, don't get what you want, just feel the negative impact; narrow, one-sided exceeding thinking about problems, understand the world, of course, can only see bad. There is a law of conservation in our life, when we want something, we have to pay something for it. Stop working and lying down because “the world doesn't deserve it.”may not be a mistake, but it will let you miss, miss all the other beautiful things in the world. We need to make our life in this world worthy, after all, we have enough time that’s not in this world once we die. So, when you live, treasure every day and exchange your efforts for happiness and improvements is all we can do.

BECAUSE, the world doesn't deserve it, but you do.

论点：人生的道路是美好的，是完全值得我们好好珍惜并走下去的。

分论点1：当我们过着一成不变的安逸的生活，我们会感到厌倦。所以每个人必须为自己的兴趣爱好努力奋斗。

分论点2：这个世界很多人无私地给予我们很多美好的事物，所以我们要更爱爱我们的人。

论证方法：正反论证。

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