2006年2月8日，刊登于青岛早报23版

Name（中文姓名）：孙萌

School Attending（所在学校）：青岛七中

Age（年龄）：12

Courses Attending in Leewen（在利文所学课程）：新概念第一册

Winning Speech（获奖演讲稿）：

People and Animals (人与动物)

I am Sun Meng. I am a junior high school student.

I like animals. I like many kinds of animals: pigeons, dogs, goats, monkeys and elephants are my favorites. Some of them are very clever, and some of them are very beautiful. In a word, they have different characteristics.

I like to go to the zoo, because I can see animals there. I usually buy food for them, and I think I know what they like. I like to feed the elephants best. They like eating bananas. In their presence, I feel we are one big, harmonic family.

In America, when people say “man’s best friend”, they don’t mean another person. Instead, they are talking about a lovely animal: the dog! This description shows the friendship between people and animals. Dogs and other pets can bring joy to people’s lives. Dogs can be taught to become the “eyes” for a blind person or “ears” for a deaf person.

Like people, animals have lives. Why don’t we become good friends? In the world, some kinds of animals are in danger of becoming extinct. Let’s protect animals from now on!

我叫孙萌，是初中学生。

我喜欢动物。我喜欢很多动物：鸽子、狗、山羊、猴子、大象都是我的最爱。

它们有的很机灵；有的很漂亮。总之，它们有着不同的特点。

我喜欢去动物园，因为在那里我可以看到动物。我经常给它们买食物吃，而且我知道它们喜欢吃什么。我最喜欢喂大象了，大象喜欢吃香蕉。在他们面前，我觉得我们是一个和谐的大家庭。

在美国，当人们说到“人的最好的朋友”时，他们并不是指另一个人，而是指一种可爱的小动物：狗！这种描述体现了人与动物之间的友谊。狗和其他宠物会给人们的生活带来欢乐。狗可以使那些失明和失聪的人“长出”眼睛和耳朵。

和人一样，动物也有生命。我们为什么不能和动物成为好朋友呢？世界上有许多动物濒于灭绝，让我们都来保护动物吧！

学习经验介绍：

学习英语要注意积累。平时在看书时，把遇到的不常见的单词、短语及一些约定俗成的用法随手抄下来并记住，这对我们学习英语很有帮助。