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1000初中英语作文:我的家乡
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+ 加入清单请你根据下面的提纲,以 我的家乡为题,写一篇100-字的短文。 提纲: (1) 家乡的地理位置; (2) 解放前的情况; (3) 解放后的变化; (4) 对家乡的感情。
满分作文: My Home Town My home town is a beautiful pla
请你根据下面的提纲,以我的家乡为题,写一篇100-字的短文。
提纲:
(1) 家乡的地理位置;
(2) 解放前的情况;
(3) 解放后的变化;
(4) 对家乡的感情。
满分作文:
My Home Town
My home town is a beautiful place. It stands beside a wide river and is rich in fish and rice.
But in the old days it was a poor and backward little town. Many people had no work. They lived a hard life.
In 1949 my hometown was liberated. Since then great changes have taken place there. The streets have been widened. Factories, schools, hospitals, cinemas and theatres have sprung up one after another. The life of the people is greatly improved.
I love my hometown. All the more I love its people. They are working hard so as to make it still richer and more beautiful.
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篇1:我的朋友初中英语Myfriend
全文共 420 字
+ 加入清单I have a lot of friends but Toshi is my best friend.He is a boy. Both of us are good at English, so we often have a chat in English in our spare time. After school, we often play football together on the playground. He runs so fast that I can not catch up with him. He is an excellent student. He not only gets good marks in all subjects but also is very kind and modest. He loves popular songs and also classical music.
篇2:初中英语
全文共 626 字
+ 加入清单This summer, I move to a new city with my parents, and I transfer to a new
school. I used to live in the countryside, so my new life is so different from
before. The school is a little far from my home, so I go to school by bus. After
school, I have many activities in school. Classmates are friendly to me. I learn
English now. Its so interesting that I like it very much. Besides, life in city
is different. There are many interesting places to go. At weekends, my parents
take me outside. We go to the park, the zoo or go shopping. But we are not so
familiar with our neighbors. I think we should build good relationship with
them.
篇3:感恩节的英语初中
全文共 844 字
+ 加入清单The thankfulgreat universe provides the environment of existence for us andgive us sunlight, air, water and everything in keeping with weexistence of space, bring storm to let us accept to toughen for us,bring to us mysterious let us look for.
The thankfulparents give us the life, make us feel the merriment of the humanlife, feel the genuine feeling of the human life, feel the comityof the human life, feel happiness of the human life, also feelhardships and pain and sufferings of the human life!
The thankfulteacher works with diligence and without fatigue everyday of teach,give us knowledge ability, put on the wing which flies toward theideal for us.
The thankfulclassmate and friend grows up road of, let I no longer standingalone in the itinerary of life; The with gratitude is frustratedand let us become in a time the failure stronger.
篇4:初中英语作文:去动物园
全文共 584 字
+ 加入清单Today was Sunday.
My parents were free, too.
I got up at 7oclock, because my families planed to go to the zoo.
After the breakfast, I took the camera and went to the station together with my parents.
It was already 9oclock when we arrived at the zoo.
There were so many monkeys, tigers, lions, wolves and other animals in the zoo. We took many photos in the zoo with the animals. I will show these photos in my class after they were printed. The time passed so fast, we left the zoo at 1oclock PM. I was so happy today. Now I feel very tired and I will go to bed early tonight.
篇5:关于初中英语的日记100字
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+ 加入清单1. It was the first day of our summer holiday. All of us were very happy. Why? Because we have one months to do things we love to do. We are free.Although we have some homework. But we can finish them in several days. And the rest time we can make good use of. My god! We have been very tired after hard studying. In winter holidays, I want to have full sleepand eat good food in order to replenish myself. Last but not the least, I will have a good rest.
2. It was the second day of our summer holiday. I felt good. I felt I am free. I had a lot of time to do things I like. My parents are in Zhongshan. So I live alone but I don’t feel lonely. But I didn’t do something special. I stayed at home and watched TV. Oh! I wrote an Englishdaily composition. It was my homework. Today, I have slept for 14 hours.I thought I was very tired. It was time for dinner. I must go! I am very hungry.
3. I am planning to spend my summer holiday on sports this year. Playing basketball is always my favourite, so some of my classmates and I will form a small team and play basketball together. Sometimes we may have a match against some other teams and I do enjoy the sense when we win the game.
4. Today I found time was a cruel thing. Whatever man is, time always goes on. It won’t stay to wait for somebody. You can’t use anything to exchange time. Time is also a fair thing. Although you have a lot of money or you enjoy high reputation, time won’t leave them more. Today I found I hadn’t enough time. Although I have more than a-month holiday, but I found I had a lot of things to do. I had a lot of homework to do and I am essential to complete the homework as soon as I have time.
5. I have rested for 10 days. In these days, I felt very bored. I didn’t know to do what. Although I had a lot of things to do, I felt uncomfortable. I was ill because of the hot weather. I was tired, sleepy and had no strength. My parents are worried about my health. in fact, it didn’t matter. I was always in the room with air-conditioner and opened it in a low temperature. So when I went out, the high temperature disagreed to me.At last, I was ill.
6. It was sunny today. I was excited. I got up at a quarter to seven. I made a appointment to meet at nine o’clock. After I had my breakfast, I went to the Wanjia Market . It was hot outside. When I arri
篇6:初中英语作文大全
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+ 加入清单Li Xiaohu spent too much time playing computer games and he fell behind
others. As a good/close friend of his, I must do something to help him.
First, I think it’s very important for him to learn lessons well. He should
spend most of his time on his study instead of computer games.
Secondly, I must tell him that playing computer games too much is bad for
his health, especially for his eyes. So he must give it up. I can play more
sports with him after school. Maybe he will become more interested in sports
than computer games. And then I‘ll ask him to concentrate more on his study. Of
course, I will try my best to help him with all his subjects. I think I can do
it in many fun ways and let him find much fun in studying. At the same time,
I’ll ask both his parents and our teachers to help him, too. If I try these, Im
sure he will make great progress soon.
篇7:初中英语作文:愉快的暑期生活
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+ 加入清单I had a summer holiday from Jule to August.I was very happy ,because I could do many kinds of things.
I went to the beach and I swam in the sea.I called my friend and played with them.I visitde my grandparents and ate much delicious food.But in August,there is a first typhoon.With terrifying fear and my mother bought some food.I was very unhappy,because I could not played out side.
Then I went to the zoo whit my sister.I was very happy.Because I saw a lot of animals.They were very lovable.So I took photos of all animals.I loved the butterfly the best.They were colourful and beautiful.My sister liked it too.
In summer holiday,I went to the places where the sun shines brightly.I went to where the sea is blue too.All students had a happy summer holiday.
篇8::初中写秋雨的英语作文
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+ 加入清单Yesterday s weather is really gratifying.
Early morning, I just got up, I heard "rumbling ... ..." thunder, I look out the window, the sky is as low as the hand can touch to touch.
Soon, a rain dripping up, like silk, like cattle hair. This is a timely rain, because a few days ago just experienced a dust storm, this rain enough to clean all the dust. thats nice!
Autumn is like a shy girl is the same as the earth father and son pouring thoughts.
This is like a rain of rain under a rain, a burst of pouring rain pouring down, and soon, the playground has become a vast ocean. Rainwater on the campus merged into a stream, they like an appointment like the same direction to catch, gradually in the playground low sink into a lake, the middle of the big puddle has become the central island of the lake. More interesting! Rain or keep the next, the rain dripping on the water cheerful dance.
The rain finally stopped, the rain was fine, the sun and the public can not wait to face from the gloomy dark clouds behind the girl jumped out. Suddenly, the sky is a bright and clean, like washed the same, the air is fresh and fresh, the distance of the scene also see more clearly. Especially the flowers, become particularly bright, and they winked to the people waving; that lovely little grass, green Yingying, who hung with emerald, swaying in the breeze, posing a fresh breath; In front of the tree that cover the old pine trees, just after the bath has become particularly spiritual, stretching the arm to welcome the sun father ... ...
Autumn rain, I love you, you will always be wiped out in my mind impetuous and arrogant.
篇9:初中英语满分
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+ 加入清单I like reading novels, because in the novels, I can imagine the world that
the author creates, I treat myself as part of the novels, it feels like that I
witness all the incidents. I especially like to read short novels, because I
don’t have so much to read the long novels, I am studying in the high school, I
have many subjects to learn. I have little time only on the weekends. Short
novels only costs me about one day to finish reading, while the long novels will
take me more than a week to finish, if I hang on reading part of it, I will
think about it all the time and can’t focus my mind on studying. What’s more, I
like to read novels more than twice, so it is easy to do for me to read short
novels. I gain so much for read these short novels.
篇10:描写我爱我的家乡的初中
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+ 加入清单我去过许多地方,但最吸引我的,最有特点的,还是我的家乡---厦门。我的家乡最吸引人的三个方面非美食、美景、风土人情莫属了!为什么把美食放在第一位呢? I have been to many places, but the most attractive and most characteristic is my hometown-Xiamen.The three most attractive hometown of my hometown is the food, beauty, and local customs! Why do you put food first?
俗话说:“民以食为天”,我先说说家乡的地道美食,绝对不会让你失望的。这儿的美食数不胜数,譬如配料丰富、口味齐全的沙茶面;酥脆可口色泽鲜亮的五香条;清鲜爽口,回味无穷的海蛎煎等。其中最经典美味的当然是酥脆可口、色泽鲜亮的五香条和海砺煎了。五香条外表金黄酥脆,馅料更是恰到好处。五花肉与荸荠、葱的完美搭配再加上鲜甜的胡萝卜。当你一口咬下去,美味的馅料就会填满你的口腔,让你回味无穷!而海蛎煎外皮酥脆里嫩,里面的海蛎肥大鲜美,加点甜辣酱,那美味真叫人垂涎三尺!
我的家乡不仅美食诱人,而且景色怡人!说到美景,不得不说下历史悠久的香山了!香山,春有油菜花,远看像给大地母亲穿上了金灿灿的连衣裙。夏有百日草,五彩缤纷的百日草如同孩子的笑容般灿烂,一阵阵沁人心脾的花香从百日草里散开,弥漫在空中,好闻极了!秋有向日葵,一朵朵金色的花向着太阳公公哈哈笑,仿佛有什么开心事似的。冬天虽然没有了花,但那络绎不绝的游客以及游客身上五彩的衣裳也构成了一道绝美的风景!
厦门靠海,来了厦门怎么能不去看海呢?厦门的海,海水湛蓝湛蓝的,像是被颜料染过似的。海边的沙滩上沙子细腻,踩上去软软的,十分舒适。沙滩上随处可见各式各样五颜六色的贝壳,它们在太阳照射下闪烁着七彩的光。游客们有的在拍照,有的在拾贝壳,还有的在游泳,到处一片欢声笑语。
我的家乡不仅美食、美景吸引人,还有独特的侨乡风情,闽台习俗。人文与自然结合得恰到好处,让人赏心悦目!
我爱我的家乡!美丽厦门欢迎你的到来哦!
篇11:关于网购英语作文初中
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+ 加入清单When it comes to online shopping, different people holds different ideas
towards it. Some people seem extremely enjoy the way of buying things online
because they feel online shopping is so convenient. Some just don’t believe that
they can buy good quality commodities from Internet. As far as I’m concerned, I
think online shopping creates lots of benefits to people.
Firstly, buying things online is a way of saving time. Compared with the
traditional way of shopping, we have no need to go out to pick up our favorite
goods from store to store. Just a click, we can have things in our shopping cart
and just wait for the goods to be delivered to us. To this extent, not only we
can save the time of finding things from store to store but we don’t need to
spend time on transportation. Thus, we can save lots of time to enjoy fun.
Secondly, buying things online can save our money. People buy commodities
by Internet not only because it saves us time, but also, we can save lots of
money. It is often seen that some people just go to the physical store to check
out the commodities they want to buy and then they would search for their
favorite commodities online and take the order. People do this just because they
know that online goods are usually cheaper than the goods displayed in shop
window because online shop have no need to pay the rent. So, people are more
inclined to buying things from online store.
Thirdly, convenience is the last but not least thing of shopping online.
Since we can buy things online, there is no need to go out to look for things we
want to buy. What we need to do is to simply sit before our computer, search for
things we want to buy, click our favorite thing and then pay our order by our
bank card. And then, you just need to wait for your goods to be delivered to
your home.
In conclusion, shopping online is a convenient, time-saving and money
saving way of buying things. Therefore, we can benefit a lot from shopping
online. That’s the reason of why shopping online has developed faster and faster
in recent years.
篇12:家乡初中优秀作文精选
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+ 加入清单第一篇:家乡的泉 王雨琦
庐江是我的老家,那里有一个小城镇,叫汤池。汤池镇有一个著名的温泉度假村,叫金孔雀度假村。那里的温泉是全国四大名泉之一。
度假村里有室内温泉和室外温泉。室外温泉在一座山坡上,大大小小共有十几处。每个池子里都有不同的中药包,对人体有益。因为药材不同,这些池子的名字也五花八门,有的叫“玉女汤”,有的叫“粗盐汤”,有的叫“祛感汤”,还有的叫“松针汤”、“薄荷汤”……
这是一池清澈的泉水。周围铺着不大整齐的鹅卵石,池边没有一点杂色的小草和五彩缤纷的小花,像是给池水编了一个美丽的花环。这里的泉水可真清啊!清得可以看见池底大大小小的鹅卵石,能看见我伸在池底的小脚丫。这里的泉水可真暖和啊!远处雪山连绵,池边的大石头上还堆积着一层厚厚的积雪,可泉中却热气升腾,水面上笼罩着一层水雾,犹如仙境一般。如果这时候你来泡温泉,你可以一边欣赏着美丽的雪景,一边享受着泉水的温暖,那可真是过着神仙般的日子啊!
这就是家乡的温泉!它甘甜的泉水滋润着我的心田,它像一股暖流激荡着我的心灵……
第二篇:家乡的桃林
今天,晴空万里,爸爸妈妈就带我去桃林。
我们到了桃子林,让我映入眼帘的就是一棵棵桃树,树上还挂着一个个粉嘟嘟的小桃子呢!看着就让人流口水。桃林的旁边还有几座山,在山脚有一条小溪,我走到那条小溪的旁边,一看,这里的水真干净啊,清澈见底,溪底有好多石头,也有许多鱼,在水里自由自在地游来游去。那里的山很绿,空气非常的
清新,吸一口这里的空气就让我感到心旷神怡。这里的草很嫩,软软的,躺在这里也很舒服。
桃林真是个好地方,有山又有水。过了一会儿,我又发现了一处地方,那就是一个很小的“瀑布”,说是瀑布其实也不是,就是从山上面流下来的水,也不是很大,但是很美,水很温柔的从上到下地流着,一到下面就水花四溅,还有一些水花溅到我的脸上和衣服上了呢!
一转眼,时间就过去了,到了晚上,我们要回去了,我坐在车上,一直在回想刚才的“小瀑布”和山水。家乡的桃林真美,青山绿水。我爱家乡的桃林,更爱家乡!
第三篇:家乡的东湖
有些人喜欢平静如一面镜子的湖水,有些人喜欢辽阔的大草原,我还是喜欢家乡的东湖。
虽然小,但是它给人的记忆还是挺多的,比如:柳树啊,石头啊,香樟树,等等……
石头呢,是十分的古怪,就会看到许多形态各异的怪石。看那块怪石像一条巨大又凶狠的眼镜蛇,盘挂在一根石柱上,好像在等候时机,突然攻击,将猎物扑倒似的。另一块像一头年幼的小狮子,正张着血喷大口,虎视眈眈地看着从它前面经过的猎物,但又有些害怕的神情。
柳树呢,它十分茂密,在湖岸中,照看镜子,青蛙看到了,害羞地躲回了树丛了,怕自己不美丽,把东湖的美景给破坏了,真是“落雁沉鱼”啊!柳树的美丽还在清风拂来时,微微摇动的柳枝,好像在梳理自己绿色又美丽的长发。
东湖公园里最引人注目的是香樟树,它是常青树,高大无比,巨大的树冠像一把大伞,庇护着伞下的一切,树干上爬满了绿色的蕨类植物,使绿色的香樟树更加青翠。
东湖里还有许多美不胜收的景色……
我喜欢我家乡的东湖。
第四篇:家乡的保兴 陈涵
奶奶家在三山里,那里有一条著名的小河穿过小区,我调查的就是那条小河,它的名字叫“保兴”。
保兴ピ经是一条臭水沟。那里的水非常浑浊,河上漂浮着生活垃圾和一两条死鱼,我想它们不是喝了有毒的水,就是吃了已经腐烂的垃圾。夏天,我每天都要去小公园散步,一经过河边就闻到一股恶臭,刚到小桥,人们就会受到蚊子的“群攻”。有的人拿扇子赶蚊子,可是,他们还是带着一身“红包”满载而归。有的干脆一到那儿就跑,可还是逃脱不了蚊子“锐利”的眼睛,你跑它也跟着你飞。
后来市政府终于重视了,对保兴ソ行了清淤改造。人们筑起了水坝,抽光污水,用挖掘机把河底的淤泥清掉。在河的两边用石头砌起了整齐的堤岸,在河湾处修建了亲水平台,还沿着河边的水面架起了一道石桥,它即可以行走,也能欣赏风景。在河岸两边种上了树木花草。最后引来了干净的河水,换掉了原来的脏水。
通过对保兴サ母脑欤现在它已成为城市中心一道美丽的绿色长廊。我们一定不能往河水里倒垃圾和脏水,只有这样我们的家园才会更美丽。
第五篇:家乡的草莓园 罗天随
刚刚度过了欢乐的六一节,然而这个属于我们的节日让我想起的不是乐高积木,而是小时候摘草莓时见到的草莓园。
虽然那已经是幼儿园那时候的事了,但我仍能深刻地记住草莓园的模样:草莓园的大门上竖着一个米色的招牌,虽然没有那么气派,但却把一种浓浓的田园气氛烘托了出来。大门旁还种了不少争奇斗艳的花朵,桃花、月季、鸡冠花、大丽菊、还有一些无名小花,它们依着时令,顺序开放,为深藏在灌木丛之中的草莓园增添了几分光彩和神秘感。
当走过了灌木丛之后,我眼前豁然开朗。成片成片的草莓田一望无际。这片广阔的草莓田被一些低矮的栅栏和纵横交错的、半埋在的下的输水管分割成了若干个长方形,而这些长方形又分成了一些像仓库一样的形状,用来种植草莓的土壤和一些较平坦的,供果农和游客行走的土壤。
再细看草莓田,终于看清了草莓的模样:有的草莓虽然小,但早已红到了尖儿;有的草莓样子很大,但形状却有点怪异……
虽然那已是几年前的事了,但我到现在还记得当时的情景,那是因为果园的美深深的吸引住了我。
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篇13:圣诞节初中英语
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+ 加入清单the chinese spring festival and the western christmas
evely nation has its own folk festivals. Those festivals give people a chance to be away from their regular work and everyday worries to enjoy themselves and to develop kindship and fiiendship. The spring festival is the chief holiday in china while christmas is the most important redletter day in the western world。
the spring festival and christmas have much in common. Both are prepared hefiorehand to create a joyous atmosphere; both offer a family reunion with a square feast: and both satisfy the children with new clothes, lovely presents and delicious food. However, the chinese spring festival has no religious background while christmas has something to do with god and there is santa claus with white heard to bring children presents. The westerners send each other christmas cards for greetings while the chinese people pay a call on each other。
nowadays, some of the chinese youth has begun to celebrate christmas, following the example of the westerners. Perhaps they do so just for fun and out of curiosity。
篇14:关于故宫的英语作文初中
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+ 加入清单Ive been to a lot of beautiful places, but in my mind, the most important
thing in my mind is the Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City is a place where the ancient emperor of China can live.
The imperial palace has: temple of heaven, echo wall, emperors study and so on
many beautiful places. There are colorful flowers in the temple of heaven, very
beautiful. The flowers and grasses and the famous flowers and plants are all
numerous and numerous, very beautiful, far from looking like a colorful flower
in the open. Like a fairyland on earth. The temple of heaven is not a famous
artist.
The echo wall is a miracle of acoustics, which is a masterpiece of ancient
craftsman. The wall tiles of the echo wall are not as strong as others. It is
specially made in shandong linqing place. The slurry brick is exquisite, and the
sound of the metal sound, commonly known as the gold brick. If you shout in the
echo wall, the echo will be strong.
Its better to see if you have the chance, and believe that it will make
you feel better.
篇15:高中英语作文我的家乡哈尔滨
全文共 1579 字
+ 加入清单This period of songhua river flows north river jilin city.
How beautiful she was, white net, the color is simple, but will make you feel shine at the moment. Approached her, as if into another world. She like a shaft of the green long picture, like a mirror, like a huge dragon, like a mothers warm hands, caressing jilin the earth. Is she, has brought up the residents near the river. No! Is raising the whole people in jilin. Without her, we would not have good day now, there will be no happy life now, there will be no happy time now!
The winter in the north, a layer of a layer of water ice, can skate. Only the songhua river is not frozen, so the world called the north only a frozen river. Winter, songhua river, only small wearing green sweater wild ducks, also have other color, in the floating, as if quietly thinking about what profound problem. From time to time to see them move the shoulder, neck, very lovely. Sometimes fly a few water birds, skim over the water, want to skate in the songhua river, ha, that is in the dream.
Summer, I remember once, I went to the rivers edge, wow! Water rose to the place where we walk, a bottom go to, water shoes, I am happy is broken. Is playing with water, there is a crawling leeches, really ugly, scared me; One side to a big sister, using ice cream sticks, fight with leeches, let me have a "zhi dou leeches" drama!
The lijiang river water static, clean, green, let all the letters with admiration, has left many colorful article! I think the author may not have been to jilin, did not witness the songhua river.
篇16:我希望初中优秀英语作文
全文共 665 字
+ 加入清单每次我放学回家,都会看见几个小孩坐在马路旁边乞讨。我不知道他们的父母是谁。他们多么狠心呀!他们差不多跟我一样大作文 你也可以投稿,也是上学的年龄了,但是他们不能。似乎没有人关心他们。我多么希望他们的父母能带他们回家啊。如果他们的父母真是穷得不能送他们去学校,那么我希望整个社会能够伸出援助之手。他们可以求助于希望工程呀。
Every time I come home from school, I see several children sitting beside the road and begging. I don’t know where their parents are. How coldhearted they are! Every time I will think so. Those children are just of the same age with me. It’s the age for school. But they can’t. It seems that no one cares for them. How I hope that their parents come and bring them home. If their parents are really too poor to send them to school, then I hope the whole society will help. They can go to the Hope Project.
篇17:初中英语满分
全文共 621 字
+ 加入清单Do you agree that your parents have a second child? Different students have
different opinions about it.
Some students agree with the idea. They think, if so, they wont feel
lonely and there will always be someone to play with. Besides, if their parents
get older or ill, they can take turn to look after them. However, some students
disagree. They worry that they will get less love from their parents if another
child comes to the family. Whats worse, they may not get along well, or even
fight against each other.
As for me, Id love to have a brother or sister as company, so that we can
share our happiness and sorrow anytime.
篇18:初中英语作文介绍朋友的Myfriend
全文共 561 字
+ 加入清单I have several friends. Wang Lin is my best friend. He is eleven yearsold. He comes from Beijing.Wang Lin came here three years ago. He came with his parents. His father is an engineer and his mother is a middle school teacher. He has no brothers or sisters. He is the only child of his parents.We are classmates at school, so we see much of each other.He is fond of English and I am good at maths. We always help each other. Both of us have made great progress in our studies.We have made up our minds to study harder and win success in our studies.
篇19:关于我的目标英语作文初中
全文共 312 字
+ 加入清单I will be a middle school student soon. when I look back on my pass days, I
find myself don’t make a difference, I play most of the time and don’t focus on
my study. Now I make up my mind. In the future days, I must study with all my
heart and learn as more as possible. So that I can store something for the
future.
篇20:关于茶的英语作文初中
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+ 加入清单"When a guest comes to my home from afar on a cold night, I light bamboo to
boil tea to offer him.”— Ancient Chinese poem.
China is the home country of tea. Before the Tang Dynasty, Chinese tea was
exported by land and sea, first to Japan and Korea, then to India and Central
Asia and, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, to the Arabian Peninsula. In the early
period of the 17th century, Chinese tea was exported to Europe, where the upper
class adopted the fashion of drinking tea. Chinese tea—like Chinese silk and
china—has become synonymous worldwide with refined culture. At the heart of the
culture of tea—the study and practice of tea in all its aspects—is the simple
gesture of offering a cup of tea to a guest that for Chinese people today is a
fundamental social custom, as it has been for centuries.
China traces the development of tea as an art form to Lu Yu, known as "the
Saint of Tea" in Chinese history, who lived during the Tang Dynasty and who
wrote The Book of Tea, the first ever treatise on tea and tea culture. The
spirit of tea permeates Chinese culture, and throughout the country there are
many kinds of teas, teahouses, tea legends, tea artifacts and tea customs.
Better-known places to enjoy a good cup of tea in China include Beijing noted
for its variety of teahouses; Fujian and Guangdong provinces and other places in
the southeast of China that serve gongfu tea, a formal serving of tea in tiny
cups; the West Lake in Hangzhou, also the home of the Tea Connoisseurs
Association, noted for its excellent green tea; and provinces in southwest China
like Yunnan where the ethnic groups less affected by foreign cultures retain tea
ceremonies and customs in original tea-growing areas.