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为贯彻《教育部关于全面提高高等教育质量的若干意见》，展示和进一步提高我校学生英语口语表达能力，激发学生学习英语的积极性，决定举办浙江工商大学2016年大学生英语演讲竞赛暨第十一届浙江省大学生英语演讲竞赛选拔赛，现将具体事项通知如下：

一.主（承）办机构

主办：浙江工商大学

承办：外国语学院

二.参赛对象

1、参赛学生必须是浙江工商大学全日制在校大一、大二、大三本科学生(不含浙江工商大学杭州商学院）。

2、杭州商学院学生（含托管）的校级比赛关注杭州商学院学生科技竞赛网。

三.竞赛方式与内容

此次竞赛分初赛、复赛和决赛。

（一）初赛

1.初赛采取网络初选形式进行。登陆浙江工商大学教务网→竞赛&创新活动网（http://10.11.107.15/），输入用户名和密码（学生登录用的用户名和初始密码均为学生学号，登陆后可修改密码）→点击登录→选择竞赛入口→在竞赛列表中选择“浙江工商大学2016年大学生英语演讲竞赛”→竞赛管理→竞赛报名(同时提交初赛作品）。

2.初赛作品要求：参赛选手朗读一篇统一提供的文章（见本通知末尾附件），并模拟现场演讲进行录音，音频长度为3分钟（WMA格式/MP3格式）。选手将演讲音频文件压缩后（不大于45M）上传到参赛网站。请注意，本次初赛分为英语专业组（包括英语、商务英语专业）和非英语专业组，请参赛同学根据自己专业选择相应的文章进行比赛。

3.选拔方式：本次竞赛评委会根据学生的语音、语调、语流节奏等对作品进行打分，选拔出若干名选手进入复赛。

（二）复赛

1.即兴演讲：赛题保密，选手上场前20分钟抽题，即兴演讲时间为2分钟；

2.回答问题：由提问评委针对选手即兴演讲的内容提出1-2个问题，选手回答时间为 1 分钟；

3.复赛结束后，排名前30位的选手进入决赛。

（三）决赛

1.定题演讲：定题演讲题目待复赛结束之后另行通知。

2.回答问题：由外籍评委针对选手定题演讲内容提1-2个问题，选手回答时间为每个问题1分钟。

3.奖项设置：校赛奖项设置按学校学科竞赛文件规定执行。

4.奖励：获奖同学由学校颁发获奖证书，达到一定成绩的同学可以申请创新学分。

5.决赛排名前12位选手，由外国语学院安排专业教师进行指导和培训，从中选出4位选手代表我校参加11月上旬浙江省大学生英语演讲竞赛。

四.比赛日程安排

初赛报名截止日期：3月31日

复赛入围名单与复赛时间安排：4月12日左右（见教务处竞赛＆创新活动网、外国语学院网站通知）。

决赛时间：9月初（见教务处竞赛＆创新活动网、外国语学院网站另行通知）。

联系人：

外国语学院：方老师 28008509

李同学 17826839639/679639   邮箱：twkjsjb@163.com

教务处：高老师   28877227。

教务处  外国语学院

2016年3月11日

附件1（专业组初赛朗读文章）：

Woman's Political Future

by Frances E. W. Harper

If before sin had cast its deepest shadows or sorrow had distilled its bitterest tears, it was true that it was not good for man to be alone, it is no less true, since the shadows have deepened and life's sorrows have increased, that the world has need of all the spiritual aid that woman can give for the social advancement and moral development of the human race. The tendency of the present age, with its restlessness, religious upheavals, failures, blunders, and crimes, is toward broader freedom, an increase of knowledge, the emancipation of thought, and a recognition of the brotherhood of man; in this movement woman, as the companion of man, must be a sharer.

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

If the fifteenth century discovered America to the Old World, the nineteenth is discovering woman to herself.

Little did Columbus imagine, when the New World broke upon his vision like a lovely gem in the coronet of the universe, the glorious possibilities of a land where the sun should be our engraver, the winged lightning our messenger, and steam our beast of burden. But as mind is more than matter, and the highest ideal always the true real, so to woman comes the opportunity to strive for richer and grander discoveries than ever gladdened the eye of the Genoese mariner.

Not the opportunity of discovering new worlds, but that of filling this old world with fairer and higher aims than the greed of gold and the lust of power, is hers. Through weary, wasting years men have destroyed, dashed in pieces, and overthrown, but today we stand on the threshold of woman's era, and woman's work is grandly constructive. In her hand are possibilities whose use or abuse must tell upon the political life of the nation, and send their influence for good or evil across the track of unborn ages.

附件2（非专业组初赛朗读文章）：

The Pleasures of Learning

by Gilbert Highet

As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an Ought: even worse, a Must, enforced by regular hours and rigid discipline. And the young sneer at the Oughts and resist the Musts with all their energy. The feeling often lasts through a lifetime. For too many of us, learning appears to be a surrender of our own will to external direction, a sort of enslavement.

This is a mistake. Learning is a natural pleasure, inborn and instinctive, one of the essential pleasures of the human race. Watch a small child, at an age too young to have had any mental habits implanted by training. Some delightful films made by the late Dr. Arnold Gesell of Yale University show little creatures who can barely talk investigating problems with all the zeal and excitement of explorers, making discoveries with the passion and absorption of dedicated scientists. At the end of each successful investigation, there comes over each tiny face an expression of pure heartfelt pleasure.

When Archimedes discovered the principle of specific gravity by observing his own displacement of water in a bathtub, he leaped out with delight, shouting, "Eureka, eureka!" ("I have found it, I have found it!") The instinct which prompted his outburst, and the rapture of its gratification, are possessed by all children.

But if the pleasure of learning is universal, why are there so many dull, incurious people in the world? It is because they were made dull, by bad teaching, by isolation, by surrender to routine; sometimes, too, by the pressure of hard work and poverty; or by the toxin of riches, with all their ephemeral and trivial delights. With luck, resolution and guidance, however, the human mind can survive not only poverty but even wealth.