英语演讲文：LovevsLife.doc

Dear judges, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I'm very glad to be here to tell you about Love vs. Life.
　　"life is very dear to all. Yet love is better than life." However our teacher is against this saying. She commented that we can never sacrifice our lives, which do not merely belong to us. for very personal matters. I agree! Absolutely! But can that be the reason why this saying does not make sense? I guess not.
　　The value of love is not only manifested in the way we sacrifice life. We do not mean that only by ending a life can wc realize love. The earthquake which took place in Sichuan, shows us explicitly that life is the most precious of all. Wc arc reminded, warned, to cherish our life, to remember every minute of being with our family and friends. But why are we taught to care about the people even more than before? Is it the sudden catastrophe thai reminds us to see the things wc commonly take for granted? Not exactly. It ?should be love in those things that make us worth cherishing and caringf
　　Why do we feel sympathetic and sad after getting to know the increasing death toll? Why are so many C hinese struggling to save and rescue every life in Sichuan? Why do wc all care so much about the latest situation and try our utmost to help those in need* even if it is just with a little money or clothes? It is love in our hearts that inspires us to do so it is love for life, for our citizens, for Chinese, that inspire us to donate our hlood and money to the sufferers; it is love for our eountry that asks us q take on the responsibility and do what we can to help the people in Sichuan.
　　Without love, life is only an empty body. What makes our life ;i real life and a meaningful one is the experience of spirit. It is not the length that makes a life splendid, but the quality that really counts. Then love, is exactly the element that realizes the value of life.