Question

提供一篇三分钟以内的英文朗诵文稿，以change为主题的。我是大一学生，英文朗诵比赛要用的，谢谢了！

Answer 1

以下有外国诗篇3段，都是跟转变、改变有关的，可以试试选择来朗诵。加上感情、语调、停顿等等，时间应该足够：
1．Letting Go
（By Fay Zwicky）

“Tell the truth of experience
they say they also
say you must let
go learn to let go
let your children go

and they go
and you stay
letting them go
because you are obedient and
respect everyone’s freedom
to go and you stay

and you want to tell the truth
because you are yours truly
its obedient servant
but you can’t because
you’re feeling what you’re not
supposed to feel you have
let them go and go and

you can’t say what you feel
because they might read
this poem and feel guilty

and some post-modern hack
will back them up
and make you feel guilty
and stop feeling which is
post-modern and what
you’re meant to feel

so you don’t write a poem
you line up words in prose
inside a journal trapped
like a scorpion in a locked
drawer to be opened by
your children let go
after lived life and all the time
a great wave bursting
howls and rears and

you have to let go
or you’re gone you’re
gone gasping you
let go
till the next wave
towers crumbles
shreds you to lace—

When you wake
your spine is twisted
like a sea-bird
inspecting the sky,
stripped by lightning.“

2．Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802–1838

“And this is what is left of youth! . . .
There were two boys, who were bred up together,
Shared the same bed, and fed at the same board;
Each tried the other’s sport, from their first chase,
Young hunters of the butterfly and bee,
To when they followed the fleet hare, and tried
The swiftness of the bird. They lay beside
The silver trout stream, watching as the sun
Played on the bubbles: shared each in the store
Of either’s garden: and together read
Of him, the master of the desert isle,
Till a low hut, a gun, and a canoe,
Bounded their wishes. Or if ever came
A thought of future days, ’twas but to say
That they would share each other’s lot, and do
Wonders, no doubt. But this was vain: they parted
With promises of long remembrance, words
Whose kindness was the heart’s, and those warm tears,
Hidden like shame by the young eyes which shed them,
But which are thought upon in after-years
As what we would give worlds to shed once more.

They met again, — but different from themselves,
At least what each remembered of themselves:
The one proud as a soldier of his rank,
And of his many battles: and the other
Proud of his Indian wealth, and of the skill
And toil which gathered it; each with a brow
And heart alike darkened by years and care.
They met with cold words, and yet colder looks:
Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought
The other only changed, himself the same.
And coldness bred dislike, and rivalry
Came like the pestilence o’er some sweet thoughts
That lingered yet, healthy and beautiful,
Amid dark and unkindly ones. And they,
Whose boyhood had not known one jarring word,
Were strangers in their age: if their eyes met,
’Twas but to look contempt, and when they spoke,
Their speech was wormwood! . . .
. . . And this, this is life! “

3．The Change
（Tony Hoagland’s poem）

“The season turned like the page of a glossy fashion magazine.
In the park the daffodils came up
and in the parking lot, the new car models were on parade.

Sometimes I think that nothing really changes—

The young girls show the latest crop of tummies,
and the new president proves that he’s a dummy.

But remember the tennis match we watched that year?
Right before our eyes

some tough little European blonde
pitted against that big black girl from Alabama,
cornrowed hair and Zulu bangles on her arms,
outrageous name like Vondella Aphrodite—

We were just walking past the lounge
and got sucked in by the screen above the bar,
and pretty soon
we started to care about who won,

putting ourselves into each whacked return
as the volleys went back and forth and back
like some contest between
the old world and the new,

and you loved her complicated hair
and her to-hell-with-everybody stare,
and I,
I couldn’t help wanting
the white girl to come out on top,
because she was one of my kind, my tribe,
with her pale eyes and thin lips

and because the black girl was so big
and so black,
so unintimidated,

hitting the ball like she was driving the Emancipation Proclamation
down Abraham Lincoln’s throat,
like she wasn’t asking anyone’s permission.

There are moments when history
passes you so close
you can smell its breath,
you can reach your hand out
and touch it on its flank,

and I don’t watch all that much Masterpiece Theatre,
but I could feel the end of an era there

in front of those bleachers full of people
in their Sunday tennis-watching clothes

as that black girl wore down her opponent
then kicked her ass good
then thumped her once more for good measure

and stood up on the red clay court
holding her racket over her head like a guitar.

And the little pink judge
had to climb up on a box
to put the ribbon on her neck,
still managing to smile into the camera flash,
even though everything was changing

and in fact, everything had already changed—
Poof, remember? It was the twentieth century almost gone,
we were there, and when we went to put it back where it belonged,
it was past us
and we were changed.“

希望帮到你。

Answer 2

Hello,it is very nice i can stand here to give you a speech.first of all, i want to ask you a question.what is this? maybe your answer is five ,and please chang to think about it.what is this ?maybe this time ,your answer is your hand .from here,wo can see,change has a magic power,it can make things to be differet.it can make spring into summer,make summer into autumn,make autumn into winter.because of change,we can get so many different things .just like the lecture of obama："change has come to America"from here,we can see the importance of change,but,how can we make a change？maybe you have known following sentence:

you can not change your surrounding

but you can change yourself

you can not change the past

but you can change the present

you can not change the weather

but you can change your mood

you can not change the fact

but you can change your manner

you can not change life's longth

but you can change life's width

you can not change everything

but you can change something

from here ,we can see if you alter an angle ,and you can chang many things.for example.if you didn't do very well in your examination.don't be disppointed.alter an angle.from the failure ,you can get so many experience.and you will change your score next time.i always remember my teacher tell us that make a differece means change .so if you alter your angle,to change,and i believe you can make a difference.

so much for my speech,that is all,thankyou!