文档介绍：英文论文答辩开场白
Opening Speech
(一)
Good morning,
Distinguished professors and teachers, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending the oral defense. (e to attend the oral defense.) :
I am Zhao Jing. Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Zhong Ming, for his intellectual guidance, invaluable instructions ments on my thesis. It is with his valuable assistance that I have finally plished this thesis.
The title of my paper is The Masculine Spirit of The Old Man and the Sea
The whole thesis consists of 3 parts. The first part will give brief introductions on the background which contains the social and cultural aspects and the introduction to the author of the masterpiece. In The second part is going to have a brief introduction of the old man and the sea and analyze the masculine spirits in the old man and the sea such as the faith optimistic and the wisdom of the hero. In the third part, it is the natural conclusion and the deep consideration. I choose this as my topic due to the following reasons. Firstly, I am fond of literature works. Secondly, I am quite familiar with this novel as this is one of the texts in our intensive teaching course and I have taught this text for more than 3 times. Last but not the least, I’
m deeply appreciated to the masculine spirit and hope I can get and practice it in my future.  For the above facts, I sele