THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 英语语言

　　Mr. Chairman, adjudicators, ladies and gentlemen,

　　Good afternoon.

　　The arrival of the year 1999 has brought with a near perfect opportunity to take a look back at the last one thousand years, assess man’s successes and failures, and look forward with our predictions of the third millennium.

　　Already this afternoon you’ve heard many assessments and you’ve heard a variety of predictions. A variety so vast, ranging from Lewis Carol’s depiction of celebratory life, to the Irish celebration of death. So vast a variety that it’s difficult to find any common ground amongst the contestants here today. Perhaps the only thing that we all share is that we are indeed discussing millennia, the old and the new and the turn of the millennium, and we’re all discussing it in the same language.

　　A few hundred years ago to have held an event like this it would have been imperative that we were all fluent in a numb

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