文章大意：这是一篇新闻报道。文章讲述了国际演讲比赛是世界上规模最大的演讲比赛，每年5月在伦敦举行。今年，两名中国学生参加了比赛，他们的英语能力给评委和观众留下了深刻的印象。
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The International Public Speaking Competition, the largest of its kind in the world, takes place in London in May each year. This year, two Chinese students took part in the competition and 1 (impress) the judges and audience with their English-language ability. “We were all 2 (amaze) at their ability to express 3 (they). It’s excellent English,” said Lucia Dumont Renard, one of the judges.
When 4 (ask) about their feelings, the two Chinese students said that they were very excited and proud. “I think I generally did a great job. I expressed all of the thoughts that I meant 5 (express), and I’m very proud to stand among all the international 6 (competitor),” said Liu Bowen from Peking University. Wu Dongxu comes from Hangzhou and he talked about his hometown during one speech in the competition. He said, “I think this is 7 valuable opportunity for me to come here, to say something about China, and to introduce China to the outside world.”
More 8 (important), the two Chinese students believed that the competition was much more 9 simply presenting speeches. For them, the competition was a very memorable journey of cultural communication. And it enabled them to meet young people from other parts of the world to make friendships 10 will last a lifetime.
