春有百花秋有月，夏有凉风冬有雪。四季变换，云卷云舒，生活处处是风景。但在世间，人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，草木是否也具有无以言表的情感呢?光华美高本期演讲话题围绕着“植物有感情吗?”展开，大家对此展开精彩的论述。

第二届英语公众演讲

本场**位选手同学认为在春暖花开的季节里，许多花朵会争相开放，这主要是为了向人们传达自身的感受而展露无限的魅力。它们表达情感的方式是绽放最美丽的一面。在北风呼啸的季节里，梅花和山茶花的绽放可能在传达悲伤，这正是它们在冬季开花的原因。

I’m not a plant I don’t even know whether they have their own feelings or not. Unlike humans, when we’re sad, we cry. But plants don’t, actually they can’t.

第二位选手是杜同学，在他看来，植物有感觉吗?当然有!这主要体现在污染和病毒上。他分享了曾经看过的一个视频，里面提及人类的语言也能改变植物，从而论证了植物真的有感情。

Do plants have feeling? I think yes. Because the ppt have a big yes there.ok there is toooooo much reason. the video tell us the reason why plants have feeling before we watch the video I want to share a story, the story is told by my father he said when he studied in shanghai his friend told him plants have feeling. Even the snowflake on the window, the flake will change the style by the people in the house. If the people is bad the flake will very ugly but if there is good people in the house the flake will be beautiful and big. Sometimes when you cut a plant by accident and it was damaged, sometimes it will not grow again. Why the plants can’t grow again?because the drug make the plant’s cell broke and they can’t grow again. First the drugs in to the plant’s body and next the plants start to grow but it can’t because the drug stop the cell and kill them. Sometimes the plants would grow again after the drug, but some not. The video tell us only language is easy to kill a plants, so why drugs and pollution can’t?

第三位选手罗同学主要从两个方面来论证植物是有感情的，一、从物理角度分析植物的化感作用，并用植物会释放化学气体或者特殊的化学元素来提醒同类有危险作详细解释;二、从个人情感角度分析，植物存在害怕、同情或其他情感表现，比如在火柴接近的时候植物会发出强烈的电信号表示恐惧。

The consistency of the above experiments interested Baxter so much that later he placed one plant, along with several poor shrimps ready to sacrifice themselves, in each of three rooms, connected them to the electrodes of an instrument, and locked the door up so that the plants were entirely isolated. The next day, he went to see the analysis report of the experiment and found that each activity curve of the separated plants increased sharply every time the shrimps were put into boiling water for six or seven seconds. Consequently, Baxter pointed out that the shrimp's sufferings caused a sharp response in the plants, indicating a link between the shrimps' sufferings and the plants’ ability of sensing such awful feelings from nearby creatures.

第四位选手郑同学认为植物是有感情的，她主要从科学实验对比、音乐影响与人们对植物赋予感情这三个方面进行演讲。

But as far as I am concerned, plants must have feelings. First, they need encouragements and motivation to grow just like human being do.I have an evidence to prove that.An American named Willie, who once did an experiment, picked two leaves from the flower bed, one in the living room and the other on the nightstand. When he got up every day, he looked at the leaves by the bed. Encouraged it to continue to live and ignored the other one. A month later, what happened?The leaf he ignored had turned yellow, while the leaf he inspired every day was not only alive, but also just like when he first took it off.

Willie's test results attracted the interest of Ogle, the chief chemist of the International General Machinery Company. He believed that a leaf can continue to be green because of its spiritual strength beyond its limit of life, which is enough to show that plants can gain energy from the human body and sense human intentions. In order to prove this, he did an experiment and found plants do have some spiritual or emotional communication with people.

第五位选手陈同学认为植物具有向光性与向水性，在逆境中正是因为这些特性**了它们的生存，他们强烈的“求圣欲”支撑着生命的延续。同时，他将植物的“勇敢”与人类的情感起来。当今高速发展的社会，如果我们畏于前进，那么失败是不可避免的，因而我们要敢于定目标，勇往直前。If we humans do not have this feature, Nor would the United States have expelled the early colonizers on the American continent; nor would Martin Luther King have declared I have a dream to win equal rights; nor would China have defeated invaders hundreds years ago; nor would peacemakers have destroyed the Nazidom in World War II.

最后，伴随着同学们热烈的掌声，经过激烈的角逐，本场排名**的是郑欣同学。胜不骄，败不馁，让我们继续期待下一场的精彩演讲!

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