榜眼邓依诺：在“21世纪杯”和有趣的灵魂做朋友

“我并不来自英语类学校

可是我有兴趣

我愿意练

跟自己练

跑操的时候练

看报的时候练

精读学习资料

留心每个角落出现的英语词汇

纪录片里漂亮的句子

异国街头林立的指示牌

都被我一一记录下来

然后我来到“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛的舞台

每天20分钟 雷打不动

从省赛到国赛

从紧张到对答如流

从普通的高中生到总决赛的亚军”

威海市第一中学的邓依诺惊喜地发现

原来自己也可以这么棒！

邓依诺在决赛场上的风姿

01

怎么学英语？练习，变着法儿练习

从小接触英语学习，邓依诺逐渐培养起对这门语言独特的感知。中学阶段，她凭借自己的兴趣主动学习了很多课外知识。被老师指出口语感觉欠缺后，邓依诺开始尝试专门训练，把学习生活变成一块海绵，挤着时间学习，甚至跑操的时候也会默念单词。

对她而言，生活处处是英语。纪录片、联合国演讲、China Daily……只要看到好词、难词，都会一丝不苟地摘录下来。渐渐地，语感随储备而来，随着日复一日的精读和琢磨而巩固。邓依诺并不认为英语是刻板枯燥的分数，在她眼里，英语是实用的工具，也是求知的快乐，是国外街头创意新颖的指示牌。

语言学习的要义在交流，邓依诺没有外教，但有外国朋友，一期一会，吃饭交流，她发现自己渐渐上瘾，要是有一周不去，再一次张口就会有种绊住了的感觉。

邓依诺生活照

02

从心理到实力，全方位备战

起初报名参赛的时候，她发现自己的竞争对手们个个不俗，一览过去，尽是来自“外国语”、“实验”学校的高手。“都挺牛的，我就去玩一玩吧。”她给自己打气。

可能得益于这般勇于尝试的好心态，小姑娘意外地闯到省赛，开始看到自己蕴藏的潜力。为了适应比赛节奏和方式，她经常自己给自己出题，自己讲给自己听。一路进入国赛，熟悉规则之后，从小积累的观察能力和搜索能力给予她很大的帮助，邓依诺开始搜索社会热点话题，从人工智能到传统文化，涵盖各个领域。另外，她还反复研究历届的比赛视频，从选手思路到一举一动，在模仿中试着超越。

一路上，邓妈妈也给予了女儿最大的支持。她经常给女儿发新闻和时事，分享新鲜事、有趣事，像决赛中多次被评委提及的“共享单车”等话题。依诺只给自己20分钟，自己对自己即兴演讲，用中文理清逻辑，讲给妈妈和朋友听，不断进行自我提升。

邓依诺生活照

03

很享受，很感谢！

赛后，“感谢”是这个16岁姑娘提及最多的词。

她说，“21世纪杯”让自己对英语演讲产生了全新的认知。之前总以为演讲就是鼓噪乏味的背稿子，被抽起来回答问题都会感到紧张的她，怎么能够用英语流利地演讲呢？直到发现自己每走上来一步都是受到肯定的，直到拿了全国总决赛的亚军。小姑娘坦言，对之前种种相关考试感到“很虚”，但现在拿到这个亚军觉得很实在。

同时因为这场比赛，她进一步认识到英语在学科范畴之外的意义，更加意识到交流和使用的重要性，“即便你会背一个词组一个句子，但是外教一问你，你愣在这儿的话，其实是挺悲哀的一件事情。”

邓依诺对比赛宣传片中的一个细节印象深刻。“一个人说'It is a stage of love and friendship.' 当时还挺不解的，自己比自己的这么短时间怎么会有friendship呢，但是真正比完了我发现，跟这些有趣的灵魂做朋友感觉真好。”

当然，这个比赛的舞台上集合了全国最有思想的少年。总决赛落下帷幕，她备受震撼的心绪依然久久无法平静，依然在脑海里反复播放预告片和会场上放过的所有歌曲，“有了感情，所以很好听。”

已备演讲稿：

AI: a terrible beauty is born?

In a world where most people tend to draw a line between what's good and what's bad, In a world where most of us love to judge what's right and what's wrong. I was doing the same thing, trying to figure out the definition of AI. But this time, it doesn't work. This topic knows the conflicted nature of AI - a terrible beauty, a double-edged sword, and a mixed blessing.

If we take a look at the brief history of AI: we notice it has brought us a lot of benefits: first of all, it has liberated human labour by performing perfectly at places such as banks, factories, or just the supermarkets in your communities. What's more, It has saved the most valuable treasure for us: time. We've got extra to do more, as, for example, the AI voice assistants on our mobile phones are helping to arrange our daily lives.

However, at the same time, many are worried about such a quick runner: the unemployment rate is rising in fields such as assembling, accounting, selling and so on, as this AI robots are stealing their positions. The most worrying part lies in AI's stepping into humans'spiritual realm: it is now copying the most valuable treasure of us. It can now draw gorgeous paintings and write delicat novels and so on. But in the past, these works relating to creation are thought to be exclusively for us human beings , this give human a strong sense crisis: what if AI finally develops own thinking and start to take charge of us?

Now, I would like to draw your attention to the simple phrase: “is born”.

What is born?

A new baby!

How can we judge a baby right after it's born?

As my mother tells me, all babies are half angels and half devils at the same time.

They are beautiful not because they are perfect.

They are beautiful because their future journey is unknown.

Their histories and stories haven'tbeen written yet.

AI is a baby, and all of us humans beings are its parents.

Our responsibility is to offer them for guides.

AI will make mistakes and brings us problems just like all the babies in the world.

But after all it will share our image and bear a resemblance of us.

Maybe we need to act like all those parents in our world, try to give the baby more support, love, as well as patience, just like those we have received from our own parents.

Thank you.

即席演讲环节，邓依诺抽到的问题是她眼中的经典文学作品是怎样的？你们心中的经典电影、经典小说都是哪一部呢？

提问环节，TESOL执行理事Christopher Powers（左）和英国文化教育协会语言发展部华东区总监Matthew Shean分别针对邓依诺的已备演讲和即席演讲提出问题。

Christopher Powers:You say that we must give proper guidance, support, love and patience to AI, our offspring, but with our actual children, we also give security, sustenance, education. What else must we give AI after it's born?

Matthew Shean:What book or movies besides Harry Potter or Titanic has changed your life?

对于这两个问题，你有什么看法呢？快来评论区说出你的观点吧！

采访：陈雪

实习编辑：王媛

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