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小学生的英语日记

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Monday, August 2nd, Sunny

It was sunny and hot today. I got up early at half past six. I read English and then had breakfast. I helped my mother washed the dishes. Then I did my homework and cleaned my room. I went shopping with my mother in the afternoon. Then I played table tennis with my friends. In the evening I watched TV and read a book. I really had a busy and interesting day.

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篇1:Introducemyself小学英语作文

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my name is u fangyan. you can call me betty. im a girl. im 13. im 154 centermeters tall.im in inqi primary school.im in class 1, grade 6.my classmates are very nice to me.we often help each other,and learn from each other. i have many hobbies.such as drawing,writing, singing .... i like playing badminton best.its good for my health.there are 3 people in my family. theyre my father,mother and me.we love each other.my phone number is 86889886. you can call me if you like .

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篇2:小学三年级英语

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I am Cendy. I am in Nanhai Experimental Primary School. I am in Class 9, Grade 3. I am tall and thin. I live in Dali. I have many good friends. I often play with them.

I have many hobbies, riding a bike, drawing pictures and reading books. But I like to read books the best. Because of reading books is good for my study. I also like riding bikes. Because of it does a lot of good to my body.

What’s your hobby? Can you tell me?

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篇3:小学六年级英语作文myhobby推荐

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My hobby is not novel, but a wide, even the parents often plaint.

Love reading hobby also from about four years ago. Thats naughty I didnt love reading, but on one occasion, from toys pile was found in a book is opened. Curiosity prompted me to look down. All of a sudden, I was immediately beautiful illustrations in the book and the wonderful content to attract. Grew up, more and more, I love reading, watching every day, a day watching less all not line, become a real bookworms. To this end, I still made a joke! Remember once, my mother let me boil water, boiling water, I picked up a book, by the way, taste with relish to read the contents, get carried away.

Although I because reading by mistake, but I still love reading, because from the book, I learned many knowledge,ve learned a lot, know many friends: the ugly duckling, Cinderella, sun wukong, bing xin, lu xun, Edison... Reading is to improve my writing level by a lot!

我的爱好虽不新奇,但广泛得连父母都时常感叹。

爱看书的爱好还得从四年前说起。那是贪玩的我并不怎么爱看书,但有一次,从玩具堆中发现了一本被翻开的书。好奇心促使我看了下去。一下子,我马上被书中那精美的插图与那精彩的内容给吸引了。长大后,我越来越爱看书了,每天都要看,少看一天都不行,成了一个不折不扣的“小书虫″。为此,我还闹出了笑话呢!记得有一次,妈妈让我烧水,烧水时,我顺便拿起一本书,津津有味地品读书中的精彩内容,看得忘乎所以。

虽然我因为看书误了事,但我仍然爱读书,因为从书中,我学会了许多知识,悟出了许多道理,认识许多朋友:丑小鸭、灰姑娘、孙悟空、鲁迅、冰心、爱迪生……读书还使我的作文水平提高了不少呢!

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篇4:小学三年级关于旅游的英语作文

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The summer vacation, we came to the star mountain tourism scenic area, visit the lotus with a history of more than two thousand years. It with "artificial didnt mean to take the tico" known for its magnificent spectacle.

: I want to go the lianhua is visit "view of the sea goddess of mercy", isnt it? View the sea goddess of mercy guanyin statue as high as 40. 88 m, is the foil (bo2) gold statue of the world. High overhead, her good-natured, overlooking (kan3) the long steps under her feet, the love is aspersed to the earth. And I was looking up at the sight of the long stairs, thinking: this... If we ascend the stairs, that should be able to see that a piece of vacant land of the gods? We walked around the sea goddess of mercy, it whole body is golden, standing on a lotus flower stage, high about three stories tall, give a person the feeling of soaring coast.

Then we came to next to the clock bell in line. Its my turn to bell, I hold the wood hard against the clock, big bronze "dong -" a deafening noise. Then I thought: if a man got into the clock in it, let me knock the clock, that this much fun? He doesnt have to sit on swing can swing a!

In halfway up the hill, I saw countless lush trees and flowers. To look down the hill, the sea, river, lake, etc. In this state, the people were amazed, and very comfortable, and looked around to long standing, and want to sit down and whisper a little poem magnificent.

Lotus in the cool breeze, fresh air, and the beautiful scenery, I regretted leaving!

暑假,我们来到了莲花山旅游风景区,参观这个具有两千多年历史的莲花山。它以“人工无意夺天工”的奇景奇观闻名于世。

我想:去莲花山就不能不看望“观海观音”了吧?观海观音观音铜像高达40。88M,是目前箔(bo2)金铜像的世界之最。她慈眉善目,高高在上,俯瞰(kan3)她脚底下的那长长的台阶,把慈爱洒向人间。而我则是仰望着眼前的那长长的台阶,心里想着:这…如果我们拾级而上,那应该可以见到那一片空灵的神明之地了吧?我们绕着观海观音走,它全身都是金色,站在高高的莲花台上,大约有3层楼高,给人高耸如云的感觉。

接着我们来到大钟的旁边排队敲钟。轮到我敲钟的时候,我抱着木头用力向大钟撞去,大铜钟“咚——”地发出震耳欲聋的响声。这时我想:如果一个人钻进大钟里去的话,让我敲一下钟的话,那该多好玩呀?他不用坐在秋千上也能荡秋千一了!

到了半山腰,我看到了数不清的繁茂的大树和花草。再向山下眺望,海、江水、湖等映入眼帘。在这种境界,既使人惊叹,又叫人舒服,既想久立四望,又想坐下低吟一首奇丽的小诗。

莲花山那凉爽的微风,清新的空气,还有那美丽的景色,使我留连忘返!

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篇5:小学生写可爱的小狗英语作文

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My dog has a furry ears, curls on the head like waves of the sea, a pair of watery eyes, often shaking his tail cute and the.

My dog does not like eating dog food. But like to eat chicken wings, when it is eating chicken wings, it will eat the outer skin, eat the outer Phi, will eat the meat inside to see it eat with relish, I would like to eat a little past.

I go with my dog to play, it is old to love the pee under the trees, it will first smell the tree in a couple of laps, and then lift the back, they began to pee.

It is very cute when sleeping, it will dream! It sometimes put your fingers into his mouth suck it, really funny.

The dog will not sweat, it can use the tongue to heat, sometimes with the abdomen attached to the floor, because the floor is cooler.

This is my lovely puppy ... ... you like it?

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篇6:小学四年级英语作文:我房前的树

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The Tree in Front of My House 我房前的

There is a tall tree in front of my house. I love it very much. When spring comes, the thick leaves make the tree beautiful and lively. And in summer, my parents and I often sit under the big tree and enjoy the cool air.

But when autumn comes, the leaves will turn yelow, and fall from the tree. And then, it stands there in the cold wind alone. I am sad, too.

Mother tells me the tree wil grow bigger and taller in the coming spring. I feel happy again.

[小学四年级英语作文:我房前的树

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篇7:小学三年级关于我的学校英语作文

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Round hill elementary school, the schools name we all one hundred years of history is a primary school.

Together into the school, is white marble stone into three tall monument, with Confucius, Albert Einstein, leonardo Da Vinci. Walk a few steps saw with crystal glass, glass table has Einstein not statue of Lao tzu and Confucius, inspire us to study harder.

Go forward along the campus path, you will see the hallway with a row of purple vines flower, here is a row of benches, marble vault with the stainless steel frame is arched above. Spring, wisteria out new shoots, long out of the green leaves. Summer, wisteria branches grow the most flourishing, the thick layers of branches in the hot summer sun, the students to read in her arms, play. In the fall, dark green leaves like lentils out of fruit. Not carefully can-t find it? In winter, just have some leaves turn yellow slowly, wisteria winding coil on the shelf.

Behind the wisteria frame there is a piece of stone forest, giant stone like handfuls of sharp sword straight into the sky, they differ in size and shape.

This is our beautiful school!

我们的学校叫环山小学,是一所有一百多年历史的小学。

一起进校门,映入眼帘的是白色大理石砌成的三座高大石碑,上面有孔子、爱因斯坦、达芬奇。往前走几步就看见用玻璃砌成的玻璃台,玻璃台上有爱因斯坦和孔子不有老子的雕像,激励着我们更加努力地学习。

沿着校园的小道往前走,就会看到走廊上有一排紫滕花架,下面是一排用大理石砌成的长凳,上面是拱形的不锈钢架。春天,紫藤抽出新的枝条,长出了嫩绿的叶子。夏天,紫藤枝叶长得最茂盛,密密层层的枝叶挡着夏天火辣辣的太阳,同学们在她的怀里看书,玩耍。到了秋天,深绿色的叶子下就会长出像扁豆一样的果实。不仔细找还找不到它呢。冬天,才有一些叶子慢慢变黄,紫藤弯弯曲曲地缠绕在架子上。

紫藤花架的后面有一片石林,巨型的石柱像一把把锋利的宝剑一样直入云霄,它们大小不一,形态万千。

这就是我们美丽的学校!

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篇8:小学英语作文:An Spring Outing

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Last Sunday, our class held aSpringOutingin the forest park. It was a nice day. The sun was shining brightly and the flowers were swaying in the spring breeze. We took a lot of pictures and had our favorite snacks on the bench. The girls talked about their favorite movie starts and the boys played football on the ground. We had so much fun.

I love spring outing because we don’t need to do the homework.

上个星期天,我们班组织了一次春游活动。那天真是个好天气,阳光明媚,鲜花在春风中摇曳。我们都很开心。我们照了很多的相片,并坐在长凳上吃我们最爱的零食。女孩子们谈论她们最爱的电影明星,男孩子们在草地上踢足球。我们玩得太开心了。

我爱春游,因为这一天我们不用写作业。

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篇9:圣诞节小学生英语

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Today, I had an interesting Christmas. In todays morning song, the teacher told us about the story of Christmas and the legend of Santa Claus, and so on.

The most interesting thing is the afternoon. In the afternoon, the students in our class first made a handmade greeting card and then shared the Pingan fruit, the apple.

Manual is the teachers idea. This card is to be given to mom and dad and to thank them for their hard care for a year. The method is: Handmade cover is a "Merry Christmas", there is a pine tree, pine trees on both sides are some of his paintings about Christmas figures etc.. The back is a letter of gratitude to mom and dad. The handwork seems simple, but its hard to do it. I was anxious to cut the paper, and all the sweat was crying. After cutting the paper, the framed frame is cut. After cutting the box, draw the pine tree first, then fold it along both sides of the pine tree, and finally decorate it with the edge, so that the card is almost ready. The cover read "Merry Christmas" and write a letter of thanks to mom and Dad, will be accomplished.

After the card for mom and Dad, we started to divide the apples. Every student is rushing to the forefront. The class is bustling with excitement. Everyone is happy to eat apples. They are chattering Like a bird flying away.

This is an interesting Christmas, a meaningful Christmas, a happy day!

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篇10:小学二年级环保英语作文带翻译

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Nowadays,with more and more serious problem such as the global increasing temperture,the melting ice and the rising sea-levering,people are recognizing the important of developing the low-carbon economic now.

There are many ways we can do to reach the loe-carbon economic.Fristly,discovering others fuels which is more clean and more green to instead of the using of carbon.Secondly, we should have the save-energy conscious and do something which we can make,for instance,using the bus ranther than car when you go out,re-use the thing that can be recycle used,reducing the use of plastic bags.Last but not least,we should plant more trees or other greenplants,in which way we can not only improve the environment,but also can make our home more beauty.

In my opnion, the most important thing to reach the low-carbon economic is everyone must try their best do what they can do for it.Once everyone have the sence of low-carbon economic and have the action by themselves ,it will be earlier to reach it.

如今,随着越来越多的严重的问题,如全球温度上升,冰川融化和sea-levering上升,人们认识到发展低碳经济的重要了。

有很多方法我们可以达到loe-carbon经济。第一,发现其他燃料,更清洁和更绿色,而不是使用的碳。其次,我们应该有燃油节能意识,我们可以做些什么,例如,使用公共汽车跑其他非汽车当你出去时,重复使用可以循环使用的东西,减少塑料袋的使用。最后但并非最不重要,我们应该种植更多的树木或其他绿色植物,在其中我们不仅可以改善环境,但也会使我们的家园更美丽。

在我因为,达到低碳经济的最重要的事情是每个人都必须尽自己最大的做他们能做的事。一旦每个人都有低碳经济和有行动的意义上,它将早些时候到达。

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篇11:小学英语作文:自我介绍

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Gooda fternoon,teachers! My name is XuLulu. I`m 11. I come from Class1 Grade 5 of TongPu No.2Primary School. There are 4 people in my family. My father is tall. My motheris pretty.My sister has a long hair. And I`m a good student. However, my homeis near the school, I often get up early. Because I must work hard. afterschool, I like playing computer games and reading books. I`d like to eatapples. They are sweet and healthy. And I like Tuesday best. We have English,music, computer and P.E. on Tuesdays. My math teacher is Miss Huang. Her classis so much fun. So my favourite class is math. And I like Chinese and English,too. This is me. An active girl. Please remember XuLulu. Thank you very much!

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篇12:小学生英语

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Class, I went to the yard. Snow was still falling. Then poured out in my mind a question: "What flavor is it snow?" I decided to try it. So, I Yong Shounie a little snow on the mouth, feeling icy cold, no smell, no flowers, primary composition Mid-Autumn Festival, not as covered as roses have thorns. I want to: What little snow you cold? I warm them! I catch them and put hands warmed. Yeah! Not a second disappeared, leaving only a small drop of water beads. Where they go? Sure, and I hide and seek!

To school, everywhere is the white one, the snow is still one child to jump from the sky. First of the big brothers and sisters are braving the cold, braving heavy snow snow yet. Behind them there was a curved path, junior high school English composition, we walked convenient, small writing on the National Day is not smooth, but they must be tired, very hard.

Home school. Ive made several small partner, the 60th anniversary of the English composition, went to the yard of snowmen, snowball fights. Hand froze red, do not care. Until my father told me to go home for dinner, I was reluctant to leave.

After dinner, I learned a while. Go to bed at nine oclock, and soon fell asleep. In the dream I dreamed has had a heavy snowfall, the children again and I make a snowman, snowball fights, skiing ... & hellip, Mid-Autumn Festival for the text;, play can be happy!

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篇13:小学生英语作文可爱的小白兔

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I had a lively and lovely little white rabbit, it is very characteristic. To see what he looks like!

Its body is furry, shrink like a small pompon like, very cute! Its head round yo, red eyes, like two ruby-like, small nose, mouth is three petals. Its short tail, really the tail of the rabbit - can not grow!

It is very practical, I feed it when the pick pick, to check whether there is no vegetables, vegetables, there is no longs, or he did not eat it!

It always jumped at home, so I named it "jump".

"Jump" really cute, do you like it?

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篇14:端午节小学国旗下讲话演讲稿

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端午节,门插艾,香满堂,吃粽子,洒白酒,龙舟下水喜洋洋。这些,都是曾经端午节上最热闹的活动,然而,随着时代的变迁,社会节奏的加快,外来文化的大举入侵,中国人不再眷顾流传几千年的中国传统文化,而是将目光转向了“圣诞节”“愚人节”这样的节日,面对这种现状,我们不得不感到悲哀,发出“端午节是否不再姓“中”这样的疑问。

当我们还沉浸在西洋节日的欢声笑语中时,据可靠消息说“亚洲某国准备向联合国教科文组织申报端午节为本国的文化遗产,目前已将其列入国家遗产名录。

听到这种消息,中国人除了惊讶只有尴尬,这不仅仅是一个传统节日的得失,不仅仅是少了几项庆祝活动,更重要的是,这是中国的传统节日,文化内涵丰富,留存着华夏民族独特的文化记忆,每过一次传统节日,就是中华民族凝聚力和向心力的一次加强和洗礼,如今,这个拥有XX多年历史的传统佳节眼瞅着即将成为他国的国家遗产,我们将有多么尴尬?

无庸讳言,这些年来,我国的传统节日,似乎总离不开吃。端午节吃粽子,清明节吃青团,元宵节吃汤圆,中秋节吃月饼,春节更不在话下——大鱼大肉让你吃到不想吃。农耕社会对饥饿的恐惧,形成了我国传统节日最鲜明的风俗——吃。如今,满足了温饱需求的人们正在奔向全面小康,什么时候都有的吃,想吃多少都可以,传统节日的吸引力一下子失去了特有的魅力。

在继承传统文化方面,我们守着“聚宝盆”却不善于保护和挖掘。比如文字,当代青年有几个熟识并能运用繁体字?连文字都不认识又如何了解古代文化?再比如造纸,我国造纸工业化生产的结果是传统手工业的流失,许多高质量的宣纸要到日本或韩国才能买到,他们不但继承了我们的传统造纸技术,还有新的发展。就拿端午节来说,它已融入各个临近国家的文化中,形成了独特的生命力——在新加坡,每年端午节举行的国际龙舟邀请赛闻名于世;在韩国,端午节被称为车轮节,是插秧结束后祈求丰年的日子。在很长一段时间里,中国人着眼于创新,却往往容易忽视对传统的坚持,文化的缺失必然导致精神断层甚至扭曲,而精神文明的再次断层又将带来什么?有句话说的好:只有民族的才是世界的。在面临全球经济一体化的今天,该如何保护与继承我们的传统文化,显然已是一个不容回避的问题。而现时的洋节兴盛与传统节日衰弱间的反差,更凸显了这个问题的迫切性

其实,不光是传统节日,整个中国民族民间文化的生存环境如今都面临着经济全球化和现代化的挑战。一些西方发达国家凭借强大的综合国力,先进的科技手段和发达的文化传播手段,积极传播西方的价值观念和生活方式,对包括中国在内的发展中国家的民族民间传统文化生态造成了一定的冲击。

中国的传统节日五彩缤纷,文化内涵丰厚,留存着人类独特的文化记忆,对祖先创造的历史文化遗存,必须怀有敬畏之心,必须高度重视。我们是中华民族的栋梁之才,中华文明需要我们共同传承。同学们,不要冷落了中国自己的传统节日,让华夏文明在中国彻彻底底的红火起来吧!

“彩旗夹岸照蛟室,

罗袜凌波呈水嬉,

曲终人散空愁暮,

招屈亭前水车注。”

刘禹锡这首《竞渡曲》记叙的是沅江一次赛龙舟的活动。

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篇15:小学生写可爱的小狗英语作文

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This afternoon, I finished the homework, took the skates to play, I was playing, saw a lovely puppy.

Puppys ear pointed, you can hear the voice of the speech, can be flexible. Water Lingling eyes inside a small round beads, a blink of an eye, like a star blinking like, the nose is very flexible, smell the delicious, and quickly ran over, it ran faster. Mouth sweet, like cherry mouth like. Head round yo. Body black and white, like a cute little panda. Calf and thick and strong, the tail of a Alice Alice a Alice, very cute.

I play every day with the lovely puppy, I am very happy, I put it every day as their own family. I hope it will always be happy. I gave the dog took a name, called "Wang Tsai".

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篇16:小学生英语作文新年

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Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. And it is the most popular festival in China. People often do different things before Spring

Festival. Some of them clean and decorate their houses. Some of them go shopping and buy some flowers. Some of them stay at home and do nothing. I usually help my mum clean the house. People get together and have a big meal at Spring Festival. They often eat fish, pork, goose, chicken, vegetables, soup and so on. I like Spring Festival very much, because adults give me some lucky money.

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篇17:有关友情英语作文小学

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In our daily life, if we get on harmoniously with our friends, we’ll feel

more joyous. But we’ll feel lonely without friends.When our friends feel upset

or get ill, we shouldn’t ignore them or look down upon them. On the contrary, we

ought to calm them down, show our love and concern to them and try our best to

help them overcome the hardships. Sometimes we may have some misunderstandings

or disagreements with our friends, thus we had better have a discussion with

them and try to accept their good ideas instead of quarreling with them. As long

as we can follow these good suggestions, we’ll find it easy to make more

friends.

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篇18:小学生写人英语作文:我的爸爸

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My dad is not tall, black eyebrows with a pair of sharp eyes below, I do nothing to escape his eyes, because my father was a child often do housework, so the body is very strong.

My father is very amiable, but he also has a serious side, when I test the poor test, the father will become serious up, will be angry and asked me: "how do you test this is so bad, is not to I am fan you ah? "However, when I test well, my father will smile and said to me:" Son, very good Well, worthy of reward, next time make persistent efforts to test better! "

Every time my father came to my house, my family became a humorous theater, my father often lying in bed tease me, I do, sometimes often lying on my fathers stomach, suppress him, he is not angry, but also Filled with: "package adults mercy, small also did not dare to say." I have already laughing broken belly. And sometimes, I play will be a bit too far, my father will say: "play is to play, do not play too far, this is very bad, very dangerous.

This is my humorous, amiable, there is a serious side of the father, I like him!

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篇19:小学二年级关于志愿者的英语作文

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I am a volunteer of civilization

On Saturday morning, the mother to the street when creating civilized city volunteer, I want my mother to go with me.

In the street, my mother and I are same, chest wearing the brand of volunteers, see the Windows on both sides of the street there are disorderly stick over a small advertising let the owner to remove it; See the floor with paper scraps, pick it up in the bin.

, in front of a small shop has a hurried walk uncle just throw of the finished cigarette butts on the ground, was I saw a pair of "critical", I hurriedly ran to say to him: "uncle, would you please pick up the cigarette butts? We want to be a civilized citizen". Uncle smile at me, al Jefferson said: "good, good, good," and bent down to throw cigarette butts picked up in the bin. At that time, my in the mind to mention how happy. In addition, I also stopped a lot on the side of the road is not according to the parking space vehicles.

After a busy morning, I found I have jurisdiction over the road, road clean, neat, orderly vehicle parking, I am very happy, because I also can contribute to create civilized city.

我是一名文明的志愿者

星期六上午,妈妈要到街上当创建文明城市志愿者,我要妈妈带我一起去。

在街上,我和妈妈一样,胸前佩戴着志愿者的牌子,见到街道两旁的橱窗上有乱贴乱画的小广告就让店主把它撤掉;见到地上有纸屑,就把它捡起来送进垃圾箱。

在一家小商店门前,有一位急匆匆走路的叔叔刚刚把抽完的烟头丢在地上,就被我的一双“火眼金睛”看到了,我连忙跑过去对他说:“叔叔,请您把烟头捡起来好吗?我们要做文明市民”。叔叔冲我笑了笑,连声说:“好、好、好”,并弯腰把烟头捡了起来丢进了垃圾箱。当时,我心里甭提有多高兴了。另外,我还制止了好多起在路边不按停车位停车的车辆。

经过一上午的忙碌,我发现经我管辖的路段,路面干净、整洁,车辆停放有序,我开心极了,因为我也能为创建文明城市做贡献了。

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篇20:中秋节小学生英语作文

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Moonquakes are to Mid-Autumn Festival what mince pies are to Christmas. The seasonal round cakes traditionally have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon. And the moon is what this celebration is all about. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th month,it is the time when the moon is said to be at its brightest and fullest.

There are two legends which claim to explain the tradition of eating moonquakes. One Tang Dynasty myth holds that the Earth once had 10 suns circling it. One day all 10 suns appeared at once,scorching the planet with their heat.

It was thanks to a skillful archer named Hour Yi that the Earth was saved. He shot down all but one of the suns. As his reward,the Heavenly Queen Mother gave Hour Yi the Elixir of Immortality,but she warned him that he must use it wisely.

Hour Yi ignored her advice and,corrupted by fame and fortune,became a tyrannical leader. Chang-Err,his beautiful wife, could no longer stand by and watch him abuse his power so she stole his Elixir and fled to the moon to escape his angry wrath. And thus began the legend of the beautiful woman in the moon,the Moon Fairy.

The second legend has it that during the Yuan Dynasty,an underground group led by Zhu Yuan Zing was determined to rid the country of Mongolian dominance. The moon cake was created to carry a secret message.

When the cake was opened and the message read,an uprising was unleashed which successfully routed the Mongolians. It happened at the time of the full moon,which,some say,explains why moonquakes are eaten at this time.

Moonquakes are usually stamped with Chinese characters indicating the name of the ry and the type of filling used. Some ries will even stamp them with your family name so that you can give personalized ones to friends and family.

They are usually presented in boxes of four which indicate the four phases of the moon. Traditional moonquakes are made with melted lard,but today vegetable oil is more often used in the interests of health.

Moonquakes are not for the diet-conscious as they are loaded with calories. The best way to wash down one of these sticky cakes is with a cup of Chinese tea,especially Jasmine or Chrysanthemum tea,which aids the digestion.

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