湖南省衡南县第三中学 2013-2014 学年高中英语 朗读比赛文字材料 Honesty Ladies and Gentlemen: My topic is Honesty. As a correspondent of the Qingdao Morning News, I visited Dr. James Gilman, the President of the International Committee for Marco Polo Studies in England. In this pictu re, this is James, and this is me and we are looking at a dragon’s tooth. This is a true story. He kept the tooth for the next 65 years, but the feeling of guilt at having stolen it was there in the background all throu gh his life. It was always on his conscience, and the feeling intensified as he became older. Finally he decided to put right his childish error. In 2002, he vis ited Qingdao and returned it to the Aquarium with his sincere apologies. He received a warm welcome. Honesty is a vital quality of human behaviour. So we should try to keep an honest mind in everything we say and do. I would like to say to all of my friends: Let’s be honest people of good moral character.Thank you.
