介绍春节英语作文初中(实用20篇)

在中国各个地方都有自己过年的习俗和方式，而大连这个海滨城市也有着它自己独特的过节方式。

在大连，人们都爱热闹，在劳动公园里张灯结彩。一般腊八节开始年的序幕就算拉开了，我和家人到市场上采购年货，真是一片热闹的景象，市场上的人摩肩接踵人来人往，小贩子朗朗上口的叫卖声让你不由自主的停下脚步聆听，也是一种享受!今年的腊八节天气有些寒冷，但是热情的大连人们并没有因为天气的寒冷而停下购置年货的脚步，每个人都热情洋溢奔走着，讨价还价声不绝于耳，我跟在家人后面走走停停，边看边乐，心里的喜悦之情难以用语言来表达，我想每个人都像我似的，快乐着，幸福着!

腊八，家家户户是要做腊八粥的和泡腊八蒜，一早起来，爷爷在厨房忙着做腊八粥，我和家人开始剥蒜制作腊八蒜。整个房间里瞬间飘满了腊八粥的香气，诱人香味绵延好久!

腊月二十九，各大商场年货爆满，人也爆满，喜气洋洋的歌曲响遍每个商场，所以这应该算是除夕夜的大彩排了，有些回家过节的人早早关闭的自己的店铺，还有些不能回家过年的打工的人们由于各种原因不能回家，对他们来说是个遗憾，但是在大连过年也算是稍稍弥补了他们心里的缺憾，毕竟大连过年是比较热闹的!

年味越来越浓，家家户户开始要贴对联了，说来也奇怪，贴上对联后立刻有了过年的气氛，红红的对联，吉祥的对子，看着就让人舒心，让人兴奋，年真的要来了!

腊月三十，也就是大年除夕了，这天早上开始就要忙活年夜饭了，毕竟是比较隆重的一顿饭，所以各家各户都是早早就开始准备了，家家都是肉味飘香，分不清是自己家还是邻居家的香气，反正鼻子在任何地方都能闻见飘香的饭菜味道。夜晚渐渐来临，年也拉开了序幕，好戏刚刚开始，小孩子们都到大街上放自己购买心仪已久的小鞭炮和烟花，这个夜晚是属于烟花的夜晚，五颜六色的烟花在空中绽放，站在高处，眼睛都不知道该往哪个地方看哪个烟花，因为都是那么漂亮，那么绚丽。配着家家户户门前的大红灯笼，整个滨城也成了烟花和火红灯笼的世界。小孩子们放完鞭炮一般就回家了，因为丰富的年夜饭吸引着小孩子们肚子里的馋虫，联欢晚会开始的时候，各种各样的美食大餐就要开始了，美食美酒飘香，欢乐声交杯声响遍各个大街小巷，这就预示着年已经开始啦!

正月十五，又名元宵节，也称上元节，这一天，大连大街小巷挂满了各式各样的彩灯，让人能看花了眼睛。这一天，家家户户也要吃元宵的，因为元宵象征着团团圆圆，欢乐美满!

转眼，十五过去了，也就预示着年要过去了。大连一切都恢复到以前的样子了，上班的上学的，都各就各位啦!

年和快乐是一样的，总是悄悄地离开，但是也会悄悄地再回来，这就是大连的春节!我爱的春节!

For most western countries, Christmas Day is the biggest festival, and all the people will have the long vacation, just as Spring Festival in China. With the development of globalization, Christmas Day is celebrated by people around the world. When the day comes, Christmas trees can be seen in many shops and some products have the great discounts.

One of the main reasons for people to love Christmas is that they can get the great discounts from some products, which saves them a lot of money. For American people, Christmas Day is the great moment for the families to get together and enjoy the family hour, while for some people they just treat it as the shopping day.

对大多数西方国家来说，圣诞节是最大的节日，所有的人都会有一个长假，就像中国的春节一样。随着全球化的发展，世界各地的人们都在庆祝圣诞节。当这一天到来的时候可以在许多商店看到圣诞树，有些商品还会打上很大的折扣。

人们喜欢圣诞节的一个主要原因是他们可以从一些产品中获得很大的折扣，为他们节省很多钱。对美国人来说，圣诞节是全家人聚在一起享受家庭时光的美好时刻，而对于一些人来说，圣诞节就是购物日。

We are always told that time is precious so that we shall cherish it. Even

though most of us know the necessity of making use of time, when we start our

plans, we find that time is limited. Where has the time gone, we always feel

confused about it. Actually, it is the lack of efficiency that makes people feel

time is not enough. It is in need of improving efficiency. Most students cant

focus their mind on study because they think of all kinds of temptations, such

as delicious food and computer games. If they can finish task quickly, then they

can do other things. It is the motivation to improve efficiency.

The day after tomorrow is the Spring Festival, due to special reasons, so early to eat dinner. Went back to my home, see three uncles and three aunt in the door, and a lock by an iron chain dog, called Daniel, it saw me would shake up the tail, standing on two feet, then put two small steak in my hand and play with me.

Time to eat dinner, think of my mother used to say to me: when you eat to concentrate on eating, looked at the bowl, saying the words, not to say not. Or a chopstick in the brush to my head, so I eat dinner did not dare to talk nonsense, afraid to say the wrong thing. "Today I go to eat dinner, three uncles and three aunts to toast." My mother whispered to me, Carter, I picked up my cup to drink Sprite, poured a generous measure after I first and I sat around two and then to three aunt, aunt and aunt, just three aunt aunt Jing, and shouted: "you how do you tell me why the toast toast? According to the order you understand?" of course understand, who told you to sit farther than me, in order to prove that I understand, I first respect the great uncle, "uncle, I wish you good health, good luck in everything." "Oh, good, I wish you learning progress, the longer and fatter, see you thin and skeleton like."

Then the two uncle, the three uncle and the grandfather were toasted in order. My grandfathers wine has not finished, the aunt began to shout, "you are wrong again, should first give grandpa toast, do not know?"

Behind my grandfathers house is a academy built by three uncles, called Yun Shen Academy. Deep in the cloud academy gate is three uncles son sun Shilin written in traditional characters from the clouds on the antithetical couplet, fly, even to the Yangtze River. The second line is far deeper, the earth since the song in the future. "You go and sweep the street of the Academy, and when the guests come, Ill buy some things." The three uncle said to me and sun Shi Lins brother in poor standard Mandarin. Dont know where the kids when we try to sweep, we should not make trouble, mother put him away, that we have to re scan.

After that evening, I and sun Shi Lin took the fireworks to the Academy. They put the racing fireworks first, and when I heard the name, I wanted to put it. I lit the lead wire, but I saw it smoke strong smoke and then rushed to the wall. Then grandpa brought a box of good day card chongtianbao, seems to be inferior products, black fireworks, a banger a squib,

A banger a squib...... Finally put the small rockets, color chrysanthemum, Sirius UFO, bee fireworks etc..

The Palace Museum is also called the Forbidden City, whichstarted to be built in 1407. It took 200,000 people fourteenyears to build it.

It was finished in 1420. There are 9,999 rooms in all the palaces. In China, nine is regarded as a lucky number traditionally. At present, it is free for Chinesestudents to visit every Tuesday.

The Palace Museum has treasures of over 5,000 years history.

We all have our homes, some homes may be larger, probably smaller, and some at home, some of the possible ugly, probably prettier. My family is no exception Oh！ Here, let me introduce yourself！ My home, although small, very small, but my family is very nice, at first glance, neat, people look very comfortable.

Come into my house, first appeared in front of you is the living room, the living room is the center of a can pull shrink, brown table, at the table, three chairs, are Mom and Dad and my chair, and that in the southwest corner of a table, that is my position. In the living room wall, there is a very old painting, the painting is a bird on a branch of the scene. Left to go from the living room, is one of our room, where we usually watch TV, play computer ...... room northwest, is one of our computer, I find information tool. N the south, there is a TV, free when you can take a look at the news. Next to the TV is my homework place, where there is a multi—functional desk, you can put down a lot of books and stationery.

Go inside this room is our bedroom, with a bed, it was my mother just a place to sleep near the bed, there are a bed, it was my dad a place to sleep, the walls in the bedroom , he has painted a picture of my childhood, very beautiful. This is my home, you must feel it nice！

Recently, we have little time to keep close contact with nature. We spend

too much time on study or working. We almost forget that how green the grass is,

how beautiful the flowers are, and how sweetly the birds are singing outside our

windows. A saying goes, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". It means

that we need to relax ourselves and go out to breathe more fresh air. We can

also climb a hill in the suburbs.Its good for our health.

Lets go outing.

The ends of the earth, the world is so vast, two people who were originally

unknown, but because of big or small events and meet, may also experience a

large list of twists and turns, finally become the friends to know each other.

The probability is too little, so every one of my friends are special, and every

friend is precious. This friendship if lost, will be unusually hard to find. So,

friendship, isnt it a kind of predestination?

Friendship is not only a kind of fate, but also a warm.

The school is our home, we should protect the environment in the small

yard.

We saw the earth have pick up rubbish should put the rubbish into the trash

can, we cant eat your own trash on the ground after the funeral, if someone do

so should be to remind him, let him pick up garbage into the garbage can.

We need to protect the objects on campus, such as: we should protect the

playground on the playground every camphor tree, cant use a knife to get the

camphor tree, because the camphor tree is a rare tree. One can sell one or two

in case of a tree, so we should protect the camphor tree.

We should also protect the flowerbeds in the flowerbeds, the flowers in the

flowerbeds, and we cant pick it because it will spoil the environment.

March 12th is Tree Planting Day. This year our school bought enough trees

before that day . On that day , we didnt had classes . The teachers and our

classmates planted trees around our school.

We began to planted trees as soon as we got to school . some students dug

the holes . Some students put the trees into the holes.

Some students put the earth back to the holes. Then we pushed the earth

hard with our feet . At last we watered the trees as much as possible.

From then on we looked after the trees carefully and the trees grew very

well. It made our shcool more beautiful .And How happy we are!

introduce myself

my name is ningruoyan。i’m a china girl。i’m ten 。i’m from zhengzhou，china。do you know zhengzhou？it’s in the middle of china。our shool is a good school in zhengzhou。i’m in class4 grade4。there are 83 students in our class。i like our shool ，teachers and classmates。

i like listening to music，i hope everyone likes music as i do。music can bring you a lot of joy and happiness。

i like reading，too。in my room，there are many books。i often go to the library to read books。sometimes，i borrow some bookes from the library。

swimming is my favorite sport。if you swim in the water，you will look like a lovely fish。if you smim ，you’ll be strong。

i like myself very much！do you like？

自我介绍

我的名字叫宁若岩。我是一名中国女孩。我10岁。我来自中国郑州，你知道郑州吗？它位于中国的中部。我们的学校是郑州的一所好学校。我在四年级四班。我们班有84名学生。我爱我们的学校，老师和同学。

我喜欢听音乐，我希望每个人都像我一样喜欢音乐。音乐能给你带来很多喜悦和幸福。

我也喜欢读书。在我的房间有许多书。我经常去图书馆看书。有时还从图书馆借阅书籍。

游泳是我最喜爱的运动。如果你在水里游泳，你看起来就像一条可爱的鱼。如果你经常游泳，你会变得强壮。

我非常喜欢自己！你们呢?

[自我介绍英语作文及翻译

春节，是中华民族的传统节日。无论你身在祖国，还是身在海外，春节的味道永远烙在炎黄子孙的心中!

初三的晚上，我怎么睡都睡不着，你们一定很奇怪，告诉你吧，我明天要去温州奶奶家呢。

第二天一早，我和爸爸还有阿姨一起去，可是，我总觉得少了一个人，原来是妈妈。因为我妈妈开了家超市，本来妈妈也想回的，可是，我们超市的工作人员太少了，都回家过年了，只有两个，所以我妈妈就不能走了。

我爸爸把车开到温州，要三个小时呢，我们经过服务区，又上了趟厕所，就继续开了。经过三小时的路程，我们终于到家了。

回到家，我们换好鞋子，就上去了。看见桌子上丰盛的饭菜，我立即去盛饭，爸爸也盛了一碗。

当我们吃得正开心的时候，爸爸吃完了，因为他要去瓯北玩，我说：“爸爸，你去好了，我现在不怕住奶奶家。爸爸说：这有什么好怕的呀?既然你不怕了，那我就走了。于是，爸爸就走了。

可是，到了晚上睡觉时，我还是想妈妈哭了。奶奶拿起手机，拨通了妈妈的电话······

第二天，我还是起床，吃饭，看电视，玩手机，打电脑······一直到第五天才开始学习。

好像我忘记了说件事，第一件是初六大的晚上，一个恶作剧在我脑里产生······那时都快要睡觉了，我就趴在枕头上装哭。奶奶又打电话给我妈妈，说我想她想哭了，我接好电话，哈哈大笑地说：被骗了吧?

第二件事：初七我正在写作业。突然发现奶奶不见了，原来她去玩了。于是，我害怕起来，一害怕，我就到门前，想把门往上推。由于我力气小的原因，只推上去一点点。我趴下去往外看了看，还是没找到奶奶。只好去看动画片了，大约3点钟，奶奶回来了。她问;作业写好了吗?我说写好了。她问：拿过来我看看?我说自己去拿。结果奶奶找遍了所有的地方，就是没找到。奶奶就问：你到底把作业放哪里啦?我撒谎说：我也忘记放哪啦

第三件事：我抢了奶奶的手机，不管她怎么说，就是不还。但后来还是被奶奶给要回去了。我又想了一个办法：说：奶奶你的手机让我摸一下行吗?奶奶答应了。我又把手机拿到手了，并把它藏起来。但又被奶奶找到了。于是，我们都开心的大笑起来······

初十的早上，我想回宁波了，就给妈妈打电话。妈妈就给我姐夫打电话，叫我姐夫把我带出去去，于是，我又回到了宁波。

真是快乐的六天啊!

I am _x and I am 12 years old. My favorite sports include basketball, swim and football. One of my favorite stars is Liu Xiang because he is the fastest runner in the world and a pride of our country. I have love fruits like watermelon, grapes, banana, and so forth. When I have time, I like watching TV, playing games on my computer, surfing the web, and reading. I have a lot of friends and we often play football together.

在一个新的环境中自我介绍，是将我们更好地展现在大家面前的一种方法。

初中英语作文 自我介绍

根据以下要点提示写一篇60-80词的短文。

1、在学校学习汉语、英语、数学、历史和一些其他学科；

2、我学习很努力，最喜欢的学科是英语，经常找机会练习英语；

3、现在中国已经加入世贸组织wto，并且2008年奥运会将在北京举行，英语正变得越来越重要；

4、我将更加努力学习英语，将来为祖国作贡献。

I study Chinese、English、maths and History and some other subject at school.I study hard. My favorite subject is English.I often find chance to practice English.China has joined WTO and Beijing will host the 2008 Olympics,English is more and more important .I will study hard and be dedicate to my homeland.

同学们有没有准备好自己的自我介绍呢？这可是一个很好的表现的机会哦！

初中英语写作范文：保护眼睛

眼睛对我们很重要，同学们一定要很好的保护自己的眼睛哦。

"爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏。千门万户曈曈日，总把新桃换旧符。"这首诗正是唐代诗人王安石写下关于春节的一首诗。今天我就要讲一讲我们这儿热闹的春节。

腊月二十三过小年，在我们这里这一天是要祭祖的。中午我们来到奶奶家，奶奶家已经把鸡杀好了，这是为下午祭祖做的准备。太阳渐渐落下，我们已经准备好了祭祖的用品，爷爷在客厅对着门的那一面放上两根蜡烛，其余三面都要放上小酒杯，每边要放上八个，代表明年家道兴旺，爷爷拿了一瓶黄酒倒上，嘴里还念着什么;爷爷还要在厨房的灶头上放上水果，插上香烛。等到香快点完的时侯，爷爷奶奶就拿出铁桶烧一些元宝，这是给“太太们”的钱，这些可都不是迷信，这是传统习俗。元宝烧的差不多时就要拜祖，等拜好祖先爷爷把烧元宝的铁桶拿出去，我们就要放烟花爆竹了，要放到地上一片红，这是热闹与喜庆的象征!最后我们就要开饭了。有鱼、有虾,还有鸡……我们看着美味的饭菜，狼吞虎咽地吃了起来。

大年三十，这一天最重要的是吃团圆饭了，家家户户都要起的很早去买菜我们也不例外。这一年我们决定由我和爸爸去买菜，妈妈烧菜。我们很早就起床去超市买菜了，以为超市的人不会多，结果比我们想象得多了好多倍。我们急匆匆地拿了菜，人挤着人，我们又去排队，队伍像一条长龙!排了几十分钟才轮到我们，仿佛今天买东西都不需要钱似的。我们回到乡下让奶奶杀鱼，顺便吃午饭，家家户户都贴上了红红的对联，穿上了喜气洋洋的新衣服。最后我们和爷爷奶奶一起回家，妈妈顿时忙了起来。过了好一会儿，妈妈端上来了红烧鱼，代表年年有余;还有笋汤，代表节节高……真是丰富，我看着看着不经意的流出口水来啦。爷爷说“开饭啦!”我们便津津有味的吃了起来。

饭后是我最喜欢的时刻，那就是要红包。我先向爷爷奶奶拜年“祝爷爷奶奶新年快乐，身体健康!”之后我又向爸爸妈妈要红包“祝爸爸妈妈幸福美满!”大家给了我两个红包，我高兴地又蹦又跳，全家人看到我也笑了起来。晚上我们一家坐在沙发上看了春晚。深夜我躺在床上，外面的鞭炮声像是说好了似的接连不断，热闹非凡，充满了年的味道。

这就是我们的春节，一个十分热闹的春节。

The annual Chinese New Year came in 20xx, the Spring Festival has come exceptionally busy, it is accompanied by the festive sound of firecrackers, sky in full bloom, and colorful fireworks came. The ancients as "firecrackers of the year" to commemorate Chinese New Year. The return of fireworks and firecrackers, so that the ancient city of Beijing is full of a thick smell of years, sound of firecrackers brings us endless joy, filled with a wonderful interesting traditional festivals.

As a girl, I do not like to put those little on the "crackling" sound of Mei Wan and loud firecrackers. I like those colorful light emitted after, four run around fireworks. There is a called channeling smallpox, a carefully ed in the ground began to release, and later on the secure enough to put in the hand grip, lit "squeak" is heard, a group with a small ball of fire flew up into the sky, screaming, "pit" Suddenly the sky on a flower in full bloom out, quite exciting.

My favorite is called Setaria fireworks in one hand and a lit continuously emitted after the bright, constantly changing colors of the fireworks. My hands turned, arms on the emergence of two very nice Ring of Fire; my arms open, 4 running, I became a "Firebird." I have a another one to lying, I cried, ran, happy with Chinese New Year fireworks is a traditional custom. Legend of the so-called "year" is an evil beast, people set fire to bamboo, the sound of bamboo bursting scared off "year", "years" away is the Chinese New Year in.

I like fireworks, it made me able to live a traditional feature of the year. I think as long as we pay attention to safety, stressing civilization, this tradition will be able to have a wonderful New Year.

[描写春节的初中英语作文

Recently, I have been reading a book named Communication Arts. In this

book, the author Doctor Li introduces many methods to communicate with others

successfully and tells readers why everyone should be a polite person. My

favorite sentence in this book is “Everyone has potential, and everyone can

determine your own future by developing positive psychological, mastering

communication arts and showing your personality charm. In that way, you can have

a wonderful life!”

During whole sections, this book tells us human should live in a large

group, since people can’t solve all problems by their own. For that matter,

human beings should learn a series of manners to deal with any situation which

might happen wherever and whenever. After that, Doctor Li makes a point that

people need to realize how to resolve disagreements between friends, families or

colleagues. There always appears this kind of situation in social life, so it’s

important to understand how to settle it. Finally he teaches us that

communication techniques not only reflect in normal talk but also within body

languages.

In each part of the book, the author takes a large number of examples in

daily life to confirm his points. These examples in daily life are easy to

understand and accept.

After reading the book, I find many shortages of my communication skills. I

used to lack of patience when I talk to others, even got mad at them. This was

impolite and might destroy relationships between my friends and me. Therefore I

would try my best to improve myself and be welcome.

As it is known to us all ,LuXun is a famous Chinese writer. He is not only

a writer, thinker, but also the founder of Chinese Literature . He wrote many

classic (经典的)novels and his stories, which are translated many languages, were

made into film,such as The True Story of AH Q and The New Years Sacrifice,which

deeply showed peoples suffering in the old days.

Because of his achievement to Chinese literature, Chairman Mao spoke highly

of him. Besides, some of his works were selected into the text books in high

school and university. I think youll gain a lot from reading his works.

The 15-Day Celebration of Chinese New YearThe first day of the Lunar New Year is "the welcoming of the gods of the heavens and earth."Many people abstain from meat on the first day of the new year because it is believed that this will ensure long and happy lives for them.

On the second day, the Chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the gods. They are extra kind to dogs and feed them well as it is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs.The third and fourth days are for the sons-in-laws to pay respect to their parents-in-law.The fifth day is called Po Woo. On that day people stay home to welcome the God of Wealth. No one visits families and friends on the fifth day because it will bring both parties bad luck.On the sixth to the 10th day, the Chinese visit their relatives and friends freely. They also visit the temples to pray for good fortune and health.The seventh day of the New Year is the day for farmers to display their produce. These farmers make a drink from seven types of vegetables to celebrate the occasion.

The seventh day is also considered the birthday of human beings. Noodles are eaten to promote longevity and raw fish for success.On the eighth day the Fujian people have another family reunion dinner, and at midnight they pray to Tian Gong, the God of Heaven.The ninth day is to make offerings to the Jade Emperor.The 10th through the 12th are days that friends and relatives should be invited for dinner.

After so much rich food, on the 13th day you should have simple rice congee and mustard greens (choi sum) to cleanse the system.The 14th day should be for preparations to celebrate the Lantern Festival which is to be held on the 15th night.

The tomb-sweeping day as a holiday, are different from pure solar terms.

Solar term is a sign of phenology change, seasonal order in China, and it is

more a festival of custom activities and some memorable.

Tomb-sweeping day is Chinas traditional festival, is also the most

important memory of ancestors and the grave. This grave to commemorate the dead

mans a kind of activity. The han nationality and some minority are mostly in

the tombs. Grave, people to carry goods such as especially fruit, paper money to

the grave, will be food for offering in the family tomb, to use paper money on

fire new soil up to the grave, fold a few branches pale green branches ed in the

grave, and then kowtow worship salute, finally eat especially home. The tang

dynasty poet tu mus poem "qingming" : "rains fall heavily as qingming comes,

and passers-by with lowered spirits go. Restaurant where? Boy pointed apricot

blossom village." Write the ching Ming festival special atmosphere.

Ching Ming festival, also called TaQingJie, according to the solar calendar

for, it is in every year on April 4 to 6, between, it is beautiful spring

scenery spring-out of season, also is a good time to people spring outing, so

the ancients had qingming outing, and carry out a series of customs sports

activities.

Until today, tomb-sweeping day ancestor worship, mourning the late

relatives customs still prevail.

【内容提示】

用英语写一篇介绍你的母亲的文章。内容要求如下：

①我的母亲刚过50岁，像我们的国家一样，经历了传统美德和现代意识两个时代。②我的母亲受过高等教育。但她有家庭责任感，为了我们家她牺牲了自己的事业。

③她善于接受新鲜事物。近年来，她成了股迷，还成了足球迷。

④我爱我的妈妈，我们成了亲密的朋友。

【作文示范】

My Mother

My mother is just over fifty, a little bit older than our republic nation, so she has experienced two periods just like our country, showing both the traditional goodness and modern ideas.

Like all mothers, she is responsible and devotes most of her efforts to our family. So sometimes I feel regretful for her to give up her work, but she thinks it is the proper social role for a woman to be a housewife. She is satisfied with the family members＇ achievements. She insists on keeping her children under her wings. You see how traditional she is.

However, since she is intelligent①and has received the high education, it is easy for her to accept something new. In recent years, she is interested in the stock②. Therefore, she cares about the political and economic③ situation of the country and the world, and actively collects information of the companies whose stocks she bought. What is more, she is a fan of the Argentine④football team. So she was very sad after the defeat of this team in the 14th World Cup Tournament ⑤.

I love my mother, just because she loves me. Since we share some interests such as playing chess, we get chances to communicate⑥with each other, which makes us close friends.

【词语解释】

①intelligent[in＇telidN nt] a．聪明的；明智的

②stock[st&k] n．股票

③economic[?i:k ＇n&mik] a．经济（上）的

④Argentine [＇a:dN ntain] a．阿根廷的

⑤tournament [＇tu n m nt]n．锦标赛；比赛

⑥communicate[k ＇mju:nikeit]v．交流（感情、信息等）

【写法指要】

这是一篇介绍家庭成员的说明文。本文是典型的启、承、转、合结构的文章。“启”就是开始，即引言段，作者在该段写出篇题：“showing both traditional goodness and modern ideas”，指出“母亲”既保持了传统美德，又接受了现代意识。“承”即接续之意，也就是扩充引言段篇题方面的内容。本文第二段写“母亲”的传统美德，就是“承”的段落。“转”是用来表示与第二段相反或不同意见的内容，常用“however，but”等词语来表达。本文第三段即为“转”段，它说明篇题的第二层意思，也就是“母亲”的现代意识。所谓“合”就是结束，即指结尾段，该段往往综合前三段内容，对全文做一总结。本文作者总结说，由于母亲和自己的情趣相同，所以他们相亲相爱，如同亲密无间的朋友似的。