Example 5: Before Grade Five of primary school, I studied in a small school based in（基于）countryside. In that school, everyone including teachers spoke dialect, because they had been used to it. While they had difficulty in speaking standard Mandarin（普通话）, I could speak Mandarin fluently whenever required, which made me very proud.
But the shift of my father’s work changed my life—our family moved to the center of the city and I had to say goodbye to my friends and enter into the best primary school in the city.
I was so excited to see the beautiful school, but more things troublesome came unexpectedly. I was always saying dialect; I always used old soft-drink bottles to carry water, which attracted curious（好奇的）eyesight and maybe laugh; I couldn’t talk with my new classmates about something like music and so on. I was frustrated and depressed.
Not so long after the entrance, our class held a speech competition. As a newcomer from countryside, I was not interested in these things and didn’t pay attention to it. Fortunately, one of my teachers, also an old classmate of my mother, knew the competition and my talent before, and communicated with my parents. My parents were glad and my father even quickly accomplished a wonderful draft（草稿） of speech for me. At first I was so scared（恐惧的）and worried, and I strongly declined, announcing that I couldn’t and hated to stand and talk in front of the people. My reaction surprised my parents and after their discussion, my strict father roughly ordered me to do it and I had to hold back（抑制住） my tears and received the heavy draft.
In the following days, I was absorbed（全神贯注的）in this busy and nervous preparation. In fact, the draft was less than 800 words, but I was always afraid of some unexpected incidents so I revised it again and again. Every morning, when others were reading textbooks loudly, I would recite my draft in low voice with the textbook in front of me. To assure my success, my father directed my performance and added some excellent gestures（手势）. So on the way to school or home, I would practice the gestures secretly.
Time flied, and the exciting and fearful day came at last. Watching the competitors going up and down one by one, I sat nervously and uneasily（不安地）. I could obviously feel my cold hands trembling. I clenched（紧握） my fist and told myself to calm down again and again. Shao Jiayi !” All of my blood rose to head and my heart beat heavily mechanically walked up and began the speech. I was so nervous that I could hardly remember how I performed then except teacher’s smile and the last gesture. But I would remember forever the strong and long echo（回声） of clapping resounded（回响） in the classroom. Sitting back, I couldn’t stop the heavily trembling of my whole body, but I knew I made it.
In this competition, I got full marks and was awarded the first-class reward—a notebook. But what the competition brought me was much more important than the notebook. Firstly, teachers showed respect to me and most of my classmates initiatively（主动地）communicated with me. Secondly, I was more confident and began to take part in collective activities（集体活动）. After the success, I made a great transform which seemed hard to me before, and I also learned that the best way to earn others’ respect is to show your ability to them. Doing nothing but waiting for their cognition（认识）and appreciation（欣赏）is useless.
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