美国游记英语作文（合集20篇）

美国文化的主要内容是强调个人价值,追求民主和自由,小编收集了关于美国文化的作文，欢迎阅读。

第一篇：美国文化

This Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. The writer O’Henry called it the one day that is purely American. Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday. But it has ritual meaning. Some Americans attend religious services on the day before Thanksgiving or on Thanksgiving morning. Others travel long distances to be with their families. They have a large dinner which is the main part of the celebration. For many Americans, Thanksgiving is the only time when all members of the family gather. The holiday is a time of family reunion. Thanksgiving week is generally one of the busiest travel times of the year. However, experts say this year probably will be different. On September 11th, thousands of people died when terrorists hijacked airplanes that struck buildings in Washington D.C. and New York City. Many people now say they are worried about flying on a plane. Travel experts say almost 6 percent fewer people will make long trips this Thanksgiving compared with last year. Many Americans who usually visit family and friends by plane are driving shorter distances instead this week. Some mental health experts say the attacks have frightened people. They say people feel safer and happier close to home. More than any other holiday, Thanksgiving is a celebration of family and home. Many people say that this year they are especially thankful for their families and friends and the good things in their lives. On Thanksgiving, people enjoy a long day of cooking, eating and talking. The traditional meal almost always includes the turkey with a bread mixture cooked inside. Other traditional Thanksgiving food served with turkey are sweet potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie. Stores are said to sell more food at Thanksgiving than at any other time of the year, and many people eat more food at Thanksgiving than at any other time of the year. Over the years, Americans have added new traditions to their Thanksgiving celebration. For example, a number off professional and university football games are played on Thanksgiving Day. Some of the games are broadcast on national television.

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本周四是感恩节。作者O Henry称之为纯粹是美国的一天。感恩节不是一个宗教节日。但它有仪式的意义。一些美国人参加宗教仪式在感恩节的前一天或是感恩节的早上。还有的长途跋涉和他们的家人团聚。他们有一个大型晚宴庆祝活动的主要部分。对许多美国人来说,感恩节是唯一一次当所有家族成员。这个节日是家人团聚的时间。感恩节这一周通常是交通最繁忙的时期。然而,专家说,今年可能会不同。9月11日,成千上万的人死于恐怖分子劫持飞机袭击的建筑物在华盛顿特区和纽约市。现在很多人说,他们担心飞机上飞行。旅游专家表示,近6%更少的人将使长途旅行这个感恩节与去年相比。许多美国人通常拜访家人和朋友乘飞机本周将改为短途驾车。一些心理健康专家认为,袭击令人们感到恐慌。他们说人们感到更安全、更快乐。比其他任何节日,感恩节是一个庆祝和家人回家。很多人说,今年他们特别感谢家人和朋友,好东西在他们的生活中。在感恩节,人们享受着一整天的烹调、饮食和说话。传统的感恩节大餐都包括火鸡内填满面包和火鸡一起做熟。其他传统的感恩节食物与土耳其是红薯,越橘和南瓜派。据说商店出售更多的食物在感恩节比其他任何时候,在感恩节,许多人吃更多的食物比其他任何时候。多年来,美国人增加了新传统感恩节的庆祝活动。例如,许多专业和大学足球比赛是在感恩节。一些游戏是在国家电视台播出。

第二篇：美国文化

The main content of American culture is the emphasize on individuals value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation(开拓, 经营) and competition and the need of realistic and practicality. Its core is individualism: self first, personal need first, pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving individual value by self-strive and self-design. This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized individualism has its pros and cons, it gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation; on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity.

American citizens emphasize on achievements and respect heroes. They have great sense in their hearts to praise succeand heroes. Personal achievements are one of those with the highest value in Americans mind. Americans have very strong senses of success. Succeis the pursuit of most Americans, it is their attractive future and the incentives for moving forward. They believe that ones personal value is equivalent to his achievements in his career. Some high achievers in their career such as entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and all kinds of super starts became modern heroes. The proceand result of how they strived have become the frame of reference of social culture value and the real life text book for parents to educate their children.

American society has great movements within itself. These movements are shown in two aspects: movements amongst locations and movements inside the society. The United States are relatively more open and have more freedom. Developed transport and the tradition of adventure and sporty makes a lot of American migrate from countryside to cities, from downtown to uptown; and from north to the southern sunny land, from one city to another. Unlike European countries, the social classes in America is not so stable. Further more, with the advocation of public education, movements upwards along the social ladder have become possible. Many people living in the states, no matter whether they are Native American or immigrants from overseas, have the same dream of changing their social claand make their lifetime dream come true through their own efforts. This is what they often called "American dream".

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美国文化的主要内容是强调个人价值,追求民主和自由,促进开拓(开拓,经营)和竞争和现实的需要和实用性。其核心是个人主义:自我第一,个人需要首先,追求个人利益和享受,强调实现个人价值self-strive和自行设计。个性与追求这种类型的有意建立定制的个人主义有其优点和缺点,它给激励人们,让他们发挥他们的潜力和智慧,因此加快整个种族和民族的发展;另一方面很难如果每个人都以自我为中心的人保持良好的关系从而使整个社会缺乏团结。

美国公民强调成就和尊重英雄。他们有很大的感觉在心里称赞succeand英雄。个人成就是其中一个最高的价值在美国人心中。美国人有很强的成功的感觉。Succeis大多数美国人的追求,这是他们吸引力的未来,前进的动力。他们认为一个人的个人价值相当于他的成就在他的职业生涯。一些成功人士在他们的职业生涯如企业家、科学家、艺术家和各类超级开始成为现代英雄。的proceand结果如何努力已经成为社会文化价值的参照系和现实生活教科书,父母教育他们的孩子。

美国社会中很有运动本身。这些运动是体现在两个方面:运动中位置和运动在社会。美国相对的开放更多的自由。发达的交通和冒险好动的传统使许多美国人从乡村流到城市,又从市中心流向郊区;从北方流到南方阳光地带,从一个城市到另一个地方。美国社会阶级不像欧洲国家并不是那么稳定。此外,公共教育的普及,使沿着社会阶梯向上流动成为可能。许多人生活在美国,无论他们是印第安人还是移民海外,有相同的梦想改变他们一生社会claand使梦想成真通过他们自己的努力。这就是他们通常被称为“美国梦”。

第三篇：美国文化

American culture, in a sense, is an extension of European culture, because the language of the Americans, demographic composition and her spirit of the foundation are from Europe. On the other hand, American culture with Europe, because European immigrants in the North American continent to drive away after taking the Indians, in a barren wilderness land to create a stunning is the splendid civilization. Therefore, in the United States talk about cultural practices and social propriety, it is necessary to take account of the same culture of Europe and the United States, but also pay attention to both of the opposite sex. Cultural practices is a wide scope and complexity of the topic, people involved in social life and relations In all aspects.

Of tolerance.

The United States is a country of immigrants, the ancestors from around the world. People emigrated to the United States, not only in the location to move on, but also in their country and customs of the council to a new place of residence. As miscellaneous, people their differences very obvious because the differences are very common, people do not particularly pay attention to unity. In time, the cultural practices of the Americans formed a higher level of tolerance (tolerance), the different cultures and different appraisals on tolerance, an acceptable attitude. At this point, the U.S. society feasible than the custom of other countries in the world more broadly.

From a political perspective, this tolerance of performance in the pursuit of freedom and the right to freedom of maintenance. From the religious that it reflected in the harmonious coexistence of different faiths. From the viewpoint of life, and it appeared in different communities, different ethnic communities live in peace. In a nutshell, in the United States, each person can basically arbitrary choice of different ideas, beliefs, traditions and customs and way of life; people can also keep a considerable extent, their customs and instrument. For example, Jews can celebrate their religious festivals, and Christians are to their Christmas and Easter. For example, again, the United States by Chinese in Chinatown Chinese live and work; the same token, the Vietnamese immigrants in their "little Saigon" according to Vietnams way of doing business and engaged in various activities.

Americans of tolerance, in addition to the above United States is a country that factors other than immigration, and the frequent movement of the Americans. As everyone knows, the history of the United States in the development of an important part of her history of the development of the western region. At that time, the United States Blazers or hiking, horseback or car, from east to west, from north to south, wherever there are opportunities, there Jiuwang resettlement. The frequent migration and continuous replacement of the Habitat so that people will always be in the "mobile", and the occasional different facing the phenomenon of tolerance and more easily accepted. Moreover, the current migration also can help people expand the field of vision, known more widely know, the different practices with sympathy, understanding, and gradually formed diversity rather than uniformity of the openness of the concept.

As the Americans tolerant of stronger, so very few Americans to impose its will on other people, with China Confucius "by the others do not want to, not to impose on" the very Guxun like. For example, a husband may be a Republican, but he must not support the Democratic Party forced his wife to change political stance. Similarly, perhaps the mother is a Catholic, but she must not have forced her into a Muslim convert son to change religion. In their daily lives and habits of business in normal times, this spirit of tolerance is a common occurrence, commonplace.

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美国文化,从某种意义上说,是欧洲文化的延伸,因为美国人的语言、人口构成和她来自欧洲的精神基础。另一方面,美国文化与欧洲,因为欧洲移民在北美大陆印第安人赶走后,在一个贫瘠的荒野地创建一个惊人的是灿烂的文明。因此,在美国谈论文化习俗和社会规范,有必要考虑相同的欧洲和美国的文化,但也注意到这两个异性。文化习俗是一个广泛的范围和复杂性的话题,人们参与社会生活,在各方面的关系。

的宽容。

美国是一个移民国家,来自世界各地的祖先。人移民到美国,不仅在位置移动,而且在他们的国家和风俗理事会的新居住地。杂,人们分歧非常明显,因为差异是非常普遍的,人们并不特别关注团结。随着时间的推移,美国人的文化习俗形成了一个更高层次的公差(公差),宽容不同文化和不同的评估,一个可接受的态度。在这一点上,美国社会可行的比世界上其他国家的习俗。

从政治角度看,这种宽容的性能追求自由和维护自由的权利。从宗教,它体现在不同信仰的和谐共存。从生活的角度,它出现在不同的社区,不同的民族生活在和平。简而言之,在美国,每个人基本上可以任意选择不同的观念、信仰、传统、习俗和生活方式,人们也可以保持相当大的程度上,他们的习俗和乐器。例如,犹太人可以庆祝他们的宗教节日,而基督教徒,他们的圣诞节和复活节。例如,美国,中国在唐人街中国生活和工作,同样,越南移民在他们的“小西贡”按越南的方式经营和从事各种活动。

美国人的宽容,除了上面的美国是一个非移民因素的国家,和经常运动的美国人。众所周知,美国历史发展的一个重要组成部分的西部地区的发展的历史。当时,美国开拓者或徒步旅行、骑马或汽车,从东到西,从南到北,哪里有机遇,Jiuwang安置。频繁的迁移和不断更换栖息地,这样人们将永远是“移动”,以及偶尔的现象所面临的不同更容易宽容和接受。此外,经常迁移还能够帮助人们扩大视野,了解更广泛的知道,不同的实践同情、理解,并逐渐形成多样性而非均匀性开放的概念。

强大的美国人宽容,所以很少有美国人将自己的意志强加于他人,与中国孔子“别人不想,不要对“Guxun像。例如,丈夫可能是个共和党人,但他必须不支持民主党迫使他的妻子改变政治立场。同样,也许妈妈是天主教徒,但她决不能强迫她进入一个穆斯林把儿子改变宗教信仰。在日常生活和习惯的业务在正常情况下,这种宽容精神是一种常见的发生,司空见惯。

There is such a person, he is a doctor, but the very obsession for sailing adventure, although every time almost died, does not lose enthusiasm, he was in a strange island through series of memorable times, who is he? By the way, is gulliver.

Gulliver has been to four isolated islands - Lilliput, giants, flying island, and the houyhnhnms. In Lilliput, initially, the king treat gulliver like a child. But then for a ridiculous reason, lead to the power split into two continuous small country. A country that has entertained a gulliver many days, let him to fight against another country, gulliver didnt promise, so the king of his exertion. And once built a fire, the palace gulliver in a hurry, suddenly into the use of urine douse the fire. Liledagong originally, but the king listen to chan said, believed to be insulted him, also want to kill gulliver, thanks to a secretary told him to avoid the disaster.

In the giant countries, the situation much worse than Lilliput. Because they all think that gulliver is not a real person, but to a person like robot, so dont put the gulliver seriously, because of the small, everyday want to go to the street performances. Gulliver cant stand this slave life, he escaped while owners do not pay attention to.

In all gulliver sailing experience the most interesting is in the flying island. Where there are a lot of good to be true. Someone says, can be extracted from the cucumber sunshine, but he has never been successful. There is also a architect want to build a house from top to bottom, and flushed to argue that many insects are building houses in this way. On the other side of the flying island is wu, a man born inside there is magic, those flowers look very common, actually hold great power.

On our way to the adventure gulliver with wisdom and courage to overcome the one after another difficult. In the future study, we also want to like him, work hard, go forward.

有这样一个人，他是一个医生，但对航海冒险十分痴迷，虽然每次都差点丧生，却丝毫不减热情，他在一个个奇怪的岛上度过一段段难忘的时光，他是谁呢?对了，就是格列佛。

格列佛先后去过四个与世隔绝的小岛——小人国、巨人国、飞岛国和慧马国。在小人国里，最初，国王就像对待孩子一样对待格列佛。可是后来因为一条荒唐的理由，导致这个大国分裂成两个战火不断的小国。一国认为已款待了格列佛许多日子，就让他去攻打另外一个国家，格列佛没有答应，于是国王对他冷若冰霜。还有一次皇宫里起了火，格列佛匆匆赶来，忽然灵机一动用尿浇灭了火。本来立了大功，可国王听信馋言，认为是侮辱了他，还想毒死格列佛，幸亏一个大臣告诉了他才避免了灾难。

在巨人国里，情况可比小人国要糟得多。因为他们都认为格列佛不是真正的人，而是一种类似人的机器人，所以不把格列佛当回事，因为小巧，每天都要去街上表演节目赚钱。格列佛不能忍受这种奴隶的生活，便趁主人不注意逃走了。

在格列佛所有航海经历中最有趣的莫过于在飞岛国了。在那里有许多异想天开的人。有人说，能从黄瓜里提取阳光，但他从未成功过。还有一个建筑师想要从上到下建房子，还面红耳赤地争辩说许多昆虫就是这样造房子的。在飞岛国的另一边是巫人国，里面的人生下来就有魔法，那些花花草草看起来很普通，实际上却蕴含着巨大的力量。

格列佛在冒险途中，用智慧和勇气战胜了一个又一个困难。在今后的学习中，我们也要像他一样奋力拼搏，勇往直前。

The free day ,I want to go to Los Angeles.Because this is the second largest city in America! And the sun always seems to shine in LA!I need some suggestions. Firstly I want to join the 2 hours walking tour.because it is a so great chance .Secondly I will go shopping in Glendale Galleria. Finlly I want to citadel outlets and South coast plaza.

美国是世界上最发达的国家，对于美国，你的了解有多少?下面，是小编为你整理的有关介绍美国的英语作文，希望对你有帮助! 有关介绍美国的英语作文篇1

Based on historical documents, modern survey and statistics, as well as the result of predecessor studies, the trend and main process of forest dynamics are recognized. The forest area and forest coverage rates for each province of China from 1700 to 1949 are es- timated backward by every 50 years. Linking the result with modern National Forest Inventory data, the spatial-temporal dynamics of Chinese forest in recent 300 years (AD 1700–1998) is quantitatively analyzed. The study shows that in recent 300 years, the forest area in current territory of China has declined by 0.95×108 hm2 (or 9.2% of the coverage rate) in total, with a trend of decrease and recovery. Before the 1960s, there was a trend of accelerated de- scending. The forest area was reduced by 1.66×108 hm2 (or 17% of the coverage rate) in 260 years. While after the 1960s, there has been a rapid increase. The forest area increased by 0.7×108 hm2 (or 8% of the coverage rate) in 40 years. The study also shows that there is a significant spatial difference in the dynamics of forest. The amplitudes of increasing and de- creasing in western China are both smaller than the ones in eastern China. During the rapid declining period from 1700 to 1949, the most serious decrease appeared in the Northeast, the Southwest and the Southeast, where the coverage rate in most provinces dropped over 20%. In Heilongjiang Province, the coverage rate dropped by 50%. In Jilin Province, it dropped by 36%. In Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, it dropped by 42%. In Yunnan Prov- ince, it dropped by 35%. During the recovery period 1949–1998, the western provinces, mu- nicipality and autonomous regions, including Ningxia, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Si- chuan–Chongqing, Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang and Qinghai, etc, the increase rates are all below 5%, while the eastern provinces, municipality and autonomous regions (except Heilongjiang, Hubei, Jiangsu–Shanghai) have achieved an increase over 5%, among which the Guang- dong–Hainan, Guangxi, Anhui, Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Fu- jian have an increase over 10%. 有关介绍美国的英语作文篇2

A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap,but,if properly handled,it may become a driving force.When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War,it had a market eight times larger than any competitor ,giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale.Its scientists were the worlds best,its workers the most skilled.American and Americans were prosperous beyongd the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economeics the war had destroyed.

It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer.Just as inevitably,the retreat from predominace proved painful.By the mid 1980s Americans had found themselves at a losss over their fading industrial competitiveness.Some huge American industries,such as consumer electronics,hand shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competitiong.By 1987 there was only one American television maker left,Zenith.(Now there is none :Zenith was bought by SouthKoreasLGElectronics in July.)Foreign made cars and textiles were sweeeping into the domestic market.Americas machine-tool industry was on the ropes.For a while it looked as though the makeing of semiconductors,whidh America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age,was going to be the next caualty.

All of this caused a crisis of confidenc.Americans stopped taking prosperity ofr granted .They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing,and that their incomes would therefore shourtly begin to fall as well .The mind -1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes ofAmericas in dustrial decline.Thir sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competitiong from overseas.

How things have changed!I1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling.Few Americans attribute this Self doubt has yielded to blind pride.American industry has changed its structure ,has gone on a diet ,has learnt to be more quik witted,according to Richard Cavanagh,executive dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government.It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving theirproductivity,says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute ,a think tank in Washington,DC,And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this perido as a golden age of business management in the United States.

[2017年有关介绍美国的英语作文

近几年，美国移民的数量与日俱增。特别是中国人越来越多。显然之所以这么多人移民美国，肯定是因为移民美国好处多。以下是移民美国好处英语作文，欢迎阅读。

The benefits of immigrating to the United States, whether you believe it or not, is an interesting phenomenon in the United States and naturalization, which is that the number of people applying for citizenship has soared in the era of immigration regulation. Last year was the most intense year for border security and illegal immigration in the United States, and the number of americans applying for citizenship last year was the highest since 1999. A similar situation occurred a decade ago. Dan, a spokesman for the U.S. citizenship and immigration services (USCIS). every time theres an immigration debate, theres always a surge in naturalization applications, says Dan Kane. Some experts believe that rising immigration, naturalization and other service costs in recent years may have pushed immigrants to apply for naturalization prior to the increase. In addition, foreigners will be keen to join us citizenship and, of course, the top ten benefits of naturalization.

Top 10 benefits of joining us citizenship:

1. The citizenship of the United States can be applied to many relatives as permanent residents in the United States according to the immigration law. There is no limit on the number of people and the time for waiting for the green card is much shorter. Along with a unique, that is, if you are a citizen of the United States, you can in your immediate family (including spouse, parents and unmarried minor child (children) in the United States during the visit (s) to apply for immigrants to him, and he (they) dont have to leave the country to do procedure, as long as with immigration give receipt can legally to stay in American waiting for the final approval of immigration, and not of little chance, its just a matter of waiting for the length of time.

2. Many countries have visa-free access to American citizens. It is more convenient for American citizens to enter customs than those who do not automatically enter the customs.

Most people dont want to commit a crime, but maybe in the wrong time, in the wrong place, we are victims of some kind of situation, but as American citizens, we will not be expelled from the country. American citizens do not have to worry about losing a green card or staying abroad for a long time.

4. Retired U.S. citizens can enjoy all social security benefits, and green card holders can only enjoy half the benefits.

5. U.S. citizens have the right to elect federal, state and local government officials. Some countries, including Ireland, the United Kingdom and Canada, recognize dual citizenship, allowing americans to retain their original nationality and passport. U.S. green card holders are not elected and elected before they enter the country.

6. American citizens can have more public benefits, including additional Security Income (SSI) and food stamps, as well as certain scholarships and financial aid.

American citizens can have more jobs and jobs. Only citizens can be elected to elected municipal, state and federal government posts. Many federal, state and municipal jobs recruit only U.S. citizens.

An adopted or biological child under the age of 18 can automatically become an American citizen. If a child is born outside the United States and is unmarried and under the age of 18, the child may be naturalized when his or her parents are naturalized.

American citizens have more financial and tax incentives, are often easier to get loans and get better lending rates because lenders think they are less likely to run for debt.

When you become an American citizen, you dont have to worry about a green card every 10 years.

[移民美国好处英语作文

before the 1850s, the united states had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. they were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.

throughout europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. in german university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. between mid-century and the end of the 1800s, more than nine thousand young americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to germany for advanced study. some of them return to become presidents of venerable colleges-----harvard, yale, columbia---and transform them into modern universities. the new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty.

professors were hired for their knowledge of a subject, not because they were of the proper faith and had a strong arm for disciplining students. the new principle was that a university was to create knowledge as well as pass it on, and this called for a faculty composed of teacher-scholars. drilling and learning by rote were replaced by the german method of lecturing, in which the professors own research was presented in class. graduate training leading to the ph.d., an ancient german degree signifying the highest level of advanced scholarly attainment, was introduced. with the establishment of the seminar system, graduate student learned to question, analyze, and conduct their own research.

at the same time, the new university greatly epanded in size and course offerings, breaking completely out of the old, constricted curriculum of mathematics, classics, rhetoric, and music. the president of harvard pioneered the elective system, by which students were able to choose their own course of study. the notion of major fields of study emerged. the new goal was to make the university relevant to the real pursuits of the world. paying close heed to the practical needs of society, the new universities trained men and women to work at its tasks, with engazuowenng students being the most characteristic of the new regime. students were also trained as economists, architects, agriculturalists, social welfare workers, and teachers.

7月12日一大早，我们就驱车赶往了世界七大奇景之一的美国大峡谷国家公园。一路上，我看到了著名的沙漠植物骆驼刺和蜡树，。骆驼刺的根长可以达到它整个植物的十到十五倍，这样它就可以方便地吸收到地下水，从而存活下来;蜡树树枝的末端有一层白色的蜡，所以人们叫它蜡树，听导游说，只有在拉斯维加斯的这种沙漠环境中才能看到它。

到了那儿后，我们坐着大峡谷的专用观光车，参观了老鹰岩。老鹰岩是经过亿万年的风雨磨练而形成的巨大的、像老鹰的岩石，它的中间部分凹了下去，而凹槽中又有一个棱状的岩石突起，仿佛就像一只老鹰正张开它那硕大无比的翅膀，正向我们飞来。我们在老鹰岩下了车，随后走上了一座巨大的玻璃桥。它以马蹄形横越大峡谷上方，我和妈妈走上去以后，妈妈一直在喊：“姚泽程，你赶快往旁边靠，我不敢往下面看!”一开始，我也有点害怕，因为玻璃桥是透明的，从中间往下看，仿佛就像是一个无底洞，随时要把我们吸进去，而且桥体还在微微颤抖着，所以我不敢往下看。直到后来，一位和我们同行的大姐姐告诉我说：“不要害怕，这座玻璃桥很坚固的，你试着往玻璃上面走走看，很快就会恢复自信的。”我听了她的话后，试探地往前走了一步，我惊讶地发现，自己竟然没有摔下去，于是我迈出了第二步、第三步……之后我们还在玻璃桥上拍照留念呢!

下了玻璃桥后，我觉得这真是一次有趣的冒险。太high了!

接下来，我们又来到了大峡谷里的印地安保护区。我看到了许多印地安人穿着现代服装，在一个由巨石和木头搭起来的棚子里表演，我还看到一个印地安小朋友和老爷爷说了几句我听不懂的语言后，那个小朋友就高高兴兴地拿着棒棒糖跑开了。

路上我们又看到了貌似一只大蝙蝠的蝙蝠岩，它也是经过亿万年的风雨磨练而形成的。夕阳西下，我们带着依依不舍的心情离开了这美丽又宏伟的大峡谷。

再见!大峡谷!

the average family income of the u.s.a. has increased from 20,000 dollars per year in 1992 to 25,000 in 20xx. along with this considerable increase in people’s income, the way in which the average family spends its income has also varied to some extent. the average expenditure of family income is divided into several sectors, namely, housing, clothing, food and drink, transport, medical care, entertainment, savings and other items.

from the table, it is quite interesting to find that the money spent on some sectors such as food and drink (2%) and entertainment (6%) in 1992 and 20xx remains the same. for transport, the percentage of 20xx is only 1% larger than that of 1992. it is also worth mentioning that in 20xx, people tend to save less money than in 1992 because people deposit only half the money they used to in 1990. there is a greater increase in the expenses on housing and medical care, increasing by 8% and 6% respectively. on the other hand, people tend to spend less money on clothes, for there is a 5% decrease in 20xx compared with that in 1992. as far as other items are concerned, there is a sharp decrease in the percentage of family income spent on them, accounting for only 7% of the total.

it can be seen from the statistics that in american people’s life food and drink, entertainment and transport had always been important. with family income increasing, american people began to give first priority to housing and medical care, thereby improving their living conditions and invigorating health. by saving less, they presented to us the implication that they expected a fairly secure prospect.

the name christmas is short for "christs mass". a mass is a kind of church service. christmas is a religious festival. it is the day we cele

ate as the birthday of jesus. there are special christmas services in christian churches all over the world. but many of the festivities of christmas do not have anything to do with religion. exchanging gifts and sending christmas cards are the modern ways of celeating the christmas in the world.

the birth of jesus had a story: in nazareth, a city of galilee. the virgins name was mary was betrothed to joseph. before they came together, she was found with child of the holy spirit. joseph her husband was minded to put her away secretly. while he thought about these things, gaiel, an angel of the lord appeared to him in a dream and told him did not be afraid to take mary as wife. and mary willing forth a son, and he shall call his name, jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

before jesus births, joseph and mary came to quirnius was governing syria. so all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. joseph also went up out of galilee, out of the city of nazareth, into judea, to the city of david, which is called bethlehem, because he was of the house and of the lineage of david, to be registered with mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. so it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to bedelivered. and sheought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

美国的1月26日，我&爸爸妈妈去看海豹和LEGOLAND玩。

玩之前我们先去看海豹。海豹很可爱。人们本来建了一个海湾勊让孩子们玩，也很安全，所以叫孩子们的沙滩。可后来被一群海豹发现了，就占为己有抢了这块地方。有的海豹懒洋洋的躺在沙滩上，有的在海里游泳，还有的在一拱一拱的爬上来。妈妈还看见海豹尿尿哩!海豹们真可爱!

之后，我们就去LEGOLAND玩。LEGOLAND非常好玩，其中最好玩的是，有几种乐器，下面有几个点，只要你一踩它，就会发出好听的乐曲&喷水(不用排队，就可以玩)。有一项也很好玩，就是正中的过山车!刚开始的时候上上下下，然后一下冲个10米多高的大坡，吓死人了!LEGOLAND还有很多很多10米多高/5米多长的雕像，全部是一个个不到1厘米的LEGO玩具拼成的，相信有多累!

最后，我在画家手里画了一幅漫画的我。

Fourth if guests or elders give cloth dish. Best use of chopsticks may also be the guests or elders far away from the dishes to their front, according to the habit of the Chinese nation. Dish is a one of the Top. If the same tables leadership, the elderly, the guests said. Whenever of a new dish, let them first Dongkuaizi. rotation or invite them to the first Dongkuaizi. to show their importance.

Fifth: eat the head, fishbone, bones and other objects, not Wangwaimian vomit, not onto the ground still. Slowly to get their hands Diezili, or close on their own or on Canzhuobian prepared beforehand good on paper.

Sixth: To a timely manner about the time and people just a few humorous, to reconcile the atmosphere. Guangzhaotou not eat, regardless of others, and do not devour and destroy the lavish meal, not jail sentence.

7: It is best not to the dinner table Tiya if it is to Tiya, will use napkins or sign blocked their mouths.

8: To clear the main tasks of the meal. Must be clear to do business oriented. Feelings or to the main contact. Mainly or to eat. If it is the former, when attention should be paid to the seating arrangements. Their main negotiators the seats near each other to facilitate conversations, or dredge emotion. If it is the after. need only pay attention to common-sense courtesy on the line, to focus on the appreciation of dishes,

[英语作文美国餐桌礼仪

ghosts and goblins are more than halloween decorations or costumes for many americans who confessed they believe in the supernatural and returning from the grave。

thirty—seven percent of 2，100 adults questioned in a zogby interactive poll said they think ghosts are real， and 23 percent believe they have been visited by a deceased relative or friend。

even the 22 percent who said they have not had any ghostly experiences themselves know someone who has。

"more than a third of americans have this belief that ghosts do exist，" said a spokesman for zogby， adding that the findings were surprising。

nearly half of those questioned said if they could be a ghost， they would choose to come back as themselves。

but belief in the supernatural is not required to enjoy halloween。 eighty—seven percent of parents said their children would be dressing up for the holiday and 71 percent would be trick—or—treating。

but 41 percent of adults said they were not celebrating halloween， including 12 percent who cited religious reasons。

serial killers were deemed to be the scariest costumes， followed by the walking dead and zombies。

美国加州——在这座城市里，既可以感受到都市生活的繁华，也可以享受乡村田间的清新，可以选择快节奏，也可以选择慢生活，在这个国庆，我去了这座非凡的城市，感受美国西部文化。

我去了旧金山和洛杉矶这两座城市，洛杉矶的好莱坞环球影城给我留下了深刻的印象。最好玩的就是辛普森家族，我们坐在一个车子上，大屏幕上出现了4D影像，逼真的可以以假乱真了，在他们坐过山车时，虽然车没动，但却有了失重感，很刺激、很有趣。

接下来是参观时间，我们坐车游览整个好莱坞，虽然解说的中文非常滑稽，但我们听的津津有味，第一个参观的是各个电影的拍摄场地，《加勒比海盗》、《金刚1》、《金刚2》《金刚3》、《速度与激情》、《侏罗纪公园》、《大白鲨》……当看到这么多场景都是假的时，我不免有些失望，但了解了很多。我们看了发大水的场景，本来天空万里无云，可却下起了大雨，山上迸发了洪水，原来是电影特效。还有8、2级大地震，本来一片安静，突然，大地震动，天花板倒了下来，压在一辆汽车上，把它压烂，楼上的汽油运输车顺着倾斜的天花板滑下来，一头撞在柱子上起了大火，一列火车开了过来也被砸了个稀巴烂。右边的水管破了，大水向外喷，这一切，发生在短短50秒，真有趣。

这次旅行让我知道了电影的起源，电影的特效，意义非凡

2013年山东高考英语作文题目：给美国朋友Tom的回信

第二节：写作(满分30分)

假设你是新华中学的学生李华，你的美国朋友Tom一周前给你发电子邮件，询问你暑假里的打算，但你因准备期末考试未能及时回复。请根据以下要点给他回邮件：

1. 未及时回复的原因;

2. 你假期的打算(如做兼职、旅行、做志愿者等)。

注意： 1. 次数：120~150;

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

【试题点评】

今年的书面表达题目延续山东省一贯的提纲作文命题习惯，时隔一年之后重新回到“书信题”的大框架中，考了一篇“以道歉信为外衣，以活动安排为主体段”的提纲作文，相当于10年山东卷(道歉信)和07年四川卷(假期安排)和合体。这种作文是我们平时经常练习的，因此套路很完善、套话很丰富。此外，本文中需要同学们翻译的难句不多，因此，只要在备考过程中有意识地了解过高考英语作文的提分方法，掌握了常用的亮点词汇、加分句型和过渡词，并加以针对性训练，这道题目应该不难写。

【经典套路】

第一段：问候+写信背景+写信目的

第二段：“道歉”部分(相当于“写信背景”)

第三段：“假期安排”部分

第四段：补充说明+客套话

【高分范文】

Dear Tom,

How are you doing? (问候) You asked me in your last letter about my plan for the coming summer vacation.(写信背景) I am sorry that I didn’t reply without delay.(写信目的)

How I wish I would read and reply your email as soon as I received it. However, I was busy preparing for my final exam at that time, which is vital for me. As a result, I had no choice but to completely focus on my study. I believe that if you were me, you would make the same choice.(第二段为道歉信常见套路)

By the way, I have a busy schedule for my summer vacation.(主题句) First and foremost, I would do a part time job, so that my interpersonal skills would be improved.(拓展句1) Additionally, I will take a short trip to Beijing to take a summer course in the New Oriental School.(拓展句2) Last but not least, maybe I will work as a volunteer for the school as a teaching assistant.(拓展句3)

These are my plan for the summer vacation. What’s yours? I am looking forward to your earliest reply.(以合理的客套话结尾)

寒假终于到了，我们因为有演出任务，可以顺便去美国旅游一趟，坐了一天的飞机，依旧保持着饱满的精力，终于到达了美国!

我们先到达了风景宜人的夏威夷，还去了所有孩子梦想的乐园“迪士尼”，并且参观了耶鲁大学等，这趟出游不仅开阔了我眼界，还让我感受到了很多不一样的民族文化和放假的轻松愉快!

参观的第一个地方是夏威夷，小时候总听大人们说夏威夷漂亮，今日一见果不其然!那里风和日丽，景色宜人。然后到了珍珠港，并在那合了影，还看了历史记录片。第二天我们去了威基基海滩。这次比第一天更有趣。在沙滩上我们听老师讲完注意事项，迫不及待的集结了5个人一起玩儿“对抗海水”。有的用手，有的用脚，有人挖沙子，有人加固沙堡，可谓是调配得当啊!可是看上去坚固的沙堡在海水面前却显得很脆弱：海水一冲上来沙堡的底部就少了很多沙子，这时我们就要用大量的干沙子来填充弥补!这样海水刚冲上来几次我们就忙的手脚并用了，该补的补，该修的修，但最还是没有海水的速度快，很快海水胜利了。我们的城堡在海水中慢慢消失了，但是这份美好的记忆却留在了我们的心里。我们要走了，要离开威基基海滩，要离开夏威夷了，心中很是不舍，带着心中的不舍我们走了!!!

第三天我们从夏威夷走了，坐飞机还去了洛杉矶，波士顿，纽约，纽黑文，和华盛顿。但是最令我留恋和喜欢的地方就得数洛杉矶的迪士尼乐园啦!盼望着，盼望着，洛杉矶来了，迪士尼的脚步近了!经过了漫长的颠簸终于到了迪士尼了，全车人都沸腾了，唯独老师还那么淡定，还不忘叮嘱我们：“别一会儿玩的忘了时间，守时最重要啊!”，老师刚发完票，我和我的好朋友就一起冲进了迪士尼。当我们看好多人都往一个方向走时就使了一个小聪明：反方向走!果然不出我们所料，我们到地方没有那么多人排队，还没有一个小时，我们就玩儿了好几个项目，比其他人快很多，我们同行四个人连连称赞这条路选的好。就这样我们来到了矿山车这里，“矿山车，玩儿这个吧!”我提议说。四人一致通过，我们向矿山车进发!到了那儿，我们谁都没说话，只是互相对视了一眼，立刻默契的像箭一样冲了过去。说着，笑着，走着，我们兴奋地坐上了车，大家都很期待，每个人都想体验一下矿山车，我们坐下后都很轻松的说笑着，突然车子以迅雷不及掩耳之势冲了出去，我“啊”的大叫出来，这时只看到两边的物体和人飞一般的闪过去，耳旁的风也呼呼的，所有的物体都几乎看不清了!车子不断地急转弯，我们的身体也跟着车子一起倾斜，感觉好像要飞出去了。“哇，好快啊!”同学们都被惊住了，“抓好啦，一个大斜坡儿!”我们所有人都忍不住尖叫起来，车子带着我们在空中不断的飞翔，有一种要飞向天空的感觉，我的围巾随着风左摆右摆，要飞出去了我下意识的伸手把它抓住了，我吓出了一身冷汗。一只手抓着扶手，一只手高举拿着围巾，它在空中飘舞着!车上的叫喊声一次高过一次，虽然开始很害怕但是我们慢慢适应后感觉很爽，就在我们沉浸其中的时候，矿山车停止了，车子平稳了。我们有些意犹未尽。从车上下来我们四人异口同声的感叹着：“爽”!接着我们又去玩了其它的项目，美好的时光总是过得很快，转眼间，黄昏来了，我们要走了“迪士尼”，再见吧!

美国之行结束了，但是那里的人们那里欢笑，还有一路上的同学情谊，都让我难以忘怀，通过这次美国旅游我感受到了不同国家的文化差异，切身感受了夏威夷美丽的威基基海滩……坐飞机回到了中国，心里默念着：再见吧!美国!再见吧，寒假!

寒假终于到了，我们因为有演出任务，可以顺便去美国旅游一趟，坐了一天的飞机，终于到达了美国！我们先到达了风景宜人的夏威夷，还去了所有孩子梦想的乐园"迪士尼"，并且参观了耶鲁大学等，这趟出游不仅开阔了我眼界，还让我感受到了很多不一样的民族文化和放假的轻松愉快！

参观的第一个地方是夏威夷，小时候总听大人们说夏威夷漂亮，今日一见果不其然！那里风和日丽，景色宜人。然后到了珍珠港，并在那合了影，还看了历史记录片。第二天我们去了威基基海滩。这次比第一天更有趣。在沙滩上我们听老师讲完注意事项，迫不及待的集结了5个人一起玩儿"对抗海水"。有的用手，有的用脚，有人挖沙子，有人加固沙堡，可谓是调配得当啊！可是看上去坚固的沙堡在海水面前却显得很脆弱：海水一冲上来沙堡的底部就少了很多沙子，这时我们就要用大量的干沙子来填充弥补！这样海水刚冲上来几次我们就忙的手脚并用了，该补的补，该修的修，但最还是没有海水的速度快，很快海水胜利了。我们的城堡在海水中慢慢消失了，但是这份美好的记忆却留在了我们的心里。我们要走了，要离开威基基海滩，要离开夏威夷了，心中很是不舍，带着心中的不舍我们走了！

第三天我们从夏威夷走了，坐飞机还去了洛杉矶，波士顿，纽约，纽黑文，和华盛顿。但是最令我留恋和喜欢的地方就得数洛杉矶的迪士尼乐园啦！盼望着，盼望着，洛杉矶来了，迪士尼的脚步近了！经过了漫长的颠簸终于到了迪士尼了，全车人都沸腾了，唯独老师还那么淡定，还不忘叮嘱我们："别一会儿玩的忘了时间，守时最重要啊！"，老师刚发完票，我和我的好朋友就一起冲进了迪士尼。当我们看好多人都往一个方向走时就使了一个小聪明：反方向走！果然不出我们所料，我们到地方没有那么多人排队，还没有一个小时，我们就玩儿了好几个项目，比其他人快很多，我们同行四个人连连称赞这条路选的好。就这样我们来到了矿山车这里，"矿山车，玩儿这个吧！"我提议说。四人一致通过，我们向矿山车进发！到了那儿，我们谁都没说话，只是互相对视了一眼，立刻默契的像箭一样冲了过去。说着，笑着，走着，我们兴奋地坐上了车，大家都很期待，每个人都想体验一下矿山车，我们坐下后都很轻松的说笑着，突然车子以迅雷不及掩耳之势冲了出去，我"啊"的大叫出来，这时只看到两边的物体和人飞一般的闪过去，耳旁的风也呼呼的，所有的物体都几乎看不清了！车子不断地急转弯，我们的身体也跟着车子一起倾斜，感觉好像要飞出去了。"哇，好快啊！"同学们都被惊住了，"抓好啦，一个大斜坡儿！"我们所有人都忍不住尖叫起来，车子带着我们在空中不断的飞翔，有一种要飞向天空的感觉，我的围巾随着风左摆右摆，要飞出去了我下意识的伸手把它抓住了，我吓出了一身冷汗。一只手抓着扶手，一只手高举拿着围巾，它在空中飘舞着！车上的叫喊声一次高过一次，虽然开始很害怕但是我们慢慢适应后感觉很爽，就在我们沉浸其中的时候，矿山车停止了，车子平稳了。我们有些意犹未尽。从车上下来我们四人异口同声的感叹着："爽"！接着我们又去玩了其它的项目，美好的时光总是过得很快，转眼间，黄昏来了，我们要走了"迪士尼"，再见吧！

美国之行结束了，但是那里的人们那里欢笑，还有一路上的同学情谊，都让我难以忘怀，通过这次美国旅游我感受到了不同国家的文化差异，切身感受了夏威夷美丽的威基基海滩......坐飞机回到了中国，心里默念着：再见吧！美国！再见吧，寒假！

American houses usually have private kitchens, a living room and sometimes separate areas for eating and watching television. A house usually has its own mailbox, a yard with plants or perhaps a lawn, and a place to store garbage out of sight.

A bungalow is a small house with one or two bedrooms and usually one bathroom.

A mansion is a real big house with many bedrooms and several bathrooms.

A ranch house usually has three or four bedrooms. The master bedroom for the mother and father usually has its own bathroom.

An apartment is usually one living space within a building. Several apartment can be in the same building, with a shared yard, parking spaces, and garbage.

A town house is a two-floor apartment. The kitchen, living room and dining room are usually on the first floor and the bedrooms are on the second floor.

A studio apartment may have a separate kitchen, but the living room is also the bedroom!

A condominium, or condo for short, is an apartment that is owned by the occupant, not the building owners.

Most American are happy to talk about their homes. And if theyve done anything special in their home, theyll let you know what it was, and maybe tell you what it cost to put in the Jacuzzi, deck or patio, etc. Most Americans live in cities, but nearly as many live in suburbs. Suburban American has shopping centers called malls and residents usually need a care to get around. Most of the houses in the suburbs are one or two stories tall, with private yards and gardens and garage. There are few tall buildings in the suburbs. Cities have neighborhoods, warehouse stores, and public transportation is usually pretty good. Private houses might only have a back yard, and if there is a garage it probably is small. Cities have a lot of apartment buildings and some tall buildings may seem to scrape the sky , so they are called skyscraper .

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今年暑假，爸爸妈妈带我到美国旅行，在这短短15天的精彩旅程中，那凉爽宜人的旧金山、高楼林立的纽约曼哈顿、象征着美国独立自由的费城、洛杉矶的好莱坞影城、圣地亚哥的军港、美国的政治中心华盛顿，还有拉斯维加斯那沙漠中的奢华和美丽的夏威夷群岛等等，都给我留下了深刻的印象，但令我最难忘的还数洛杉矶的好莱坞影城和夏威夷群岛了。

夏天的洛杉矶还是属于凉爽的，那天一清早，我和爸爸妈妈就来到好莱坞影城，它是一个时尚、精彩刺激、艺术与高科技完美结合的主题公园，那色彩艳丽的街头各景，令人犹如走进了童话世界，全球最先进的imax4d影区吸引着来自世界各地的游客。在《辛普森一家》景点门口，我们经过了10多分钟的排队，走进了7人一间的小影区，坐上座位后，顿时觉得自己一下子升上天空，白云触手可及(其实，整个过程座位只是轻微抖动，并没有移动，所有那些身临其境的感觉只不过是身边360度全方位环绕的4d屏幕的错觉)，突然，犹如坐在过山车上的我们一下子由上往下冲去，大家都失声大叫，只听得“砰”的一声摔入大海，我们身上、脸上都溅到了海水，但还在哈哈大笑，接着我们迎着海风在大海上冲浪，时而快，时而慢，突然，前面出现了一只张着大口的怪物，眼看着我们将“自投罗网”冲入它的口中，我抱着头大叫：“不要……”，谁知，那个家伙竟打了一个大喷嚏，喷了我们一脸的“口水”……那将近20分钟强烈逼真的视觉刺激，真令人兴奋。我重新排队又玩了一次，还是觉得意犹未尽。

接着我们又去看了《金刚》、《侏罗纪公园》、《木乃伊归来》的4d景区，加勒比海盗的真人秀和曾经在各部大片中出现过的摄影棚，亲身经历了摄影棚中火灾、地震、水灾、爆炸的场景，真让我惊叹不已，流连忘返。

美丽的夏威夷群岛是我们旅行中的最后一站。夏威夷是太平洋中的一个有132个岛屿组成的火山岛，最著名的岛屿是檀香山。夏威夷又称“彩虹之城”，一点也没错，因为这里的空气特别纯净，所以出现彩虹并不是一件稀罕的事，我们在这里的几天，有时一天能看到几次，美丽的彩虹犹如花束编织的环带悬挂在天空，更像一座巨大的彩色拱门，似乎只要往前走上几十步，就可以穿门而入了，怪不得在当地的车牌上都有彩虹的标志。但这对我来说并不重要，因为最吸引我的是海滩，这里全年风和日丽、水蓝天青，也是冲浪者的天堂。恰巧我们住的酒店离著名的waikiki沙滩步行只有40秒的距离，所以，我和爸爸一有时间就会下海，任凭海浪拍打着我，好像在对我说：“欢迎您来，远方的客人!”

15天的旅程结束了，我感谢爸爸妈妈忙中抽闲陪伴我外出旅行，让我增长眼界，同时美国之行也给我留下了深刻的、美好的记忆。

寒假终于到了，我们因为有演出任务，可以顺便去美国旅游一趟，坐了一天的飞机，终于到达了美国!我们先到达了风景宜人的夏威夷，还去了所有孩子梦想的乐园“迪士尼”，并且参观了耶鲁大学等，这趟出游不仅开阔了我眼界，还让我感受到了很多不一样的民族文化和放假的轻松愉快!

参观的第一个地方是夏威夷，小时候总听大人们说夏威夷漂亮，今日一见果不其然!那里风和日丽，景色宜人。然后到了珍珠港，并在那合了影，还看了历史记录片。第二天我们去了威基基海滩。这次比第一天更有趣。在沙滩上我们听老师讲完注意事项，迫不及待的集结了5个人一起玩儿“对抗海水”。有的用手，有的用脚，有人挖沙子，有人加固沙堡，可谓是调配得当啊!可是看上去坚固的沙堡在海水面前却显得很脆弱：海水一冲上来沙堡的底部就少了很多沙子，这时我们就要用大量的干沙子来填充弥补!这样海水刚冲上来几次我们就忙的手脚并用了，该补的补，该修的修，但最还是没有海水的速度快，很快海水胜利了。我们的城堡在海水中慢慢消失了，但是这份美好的记忆却留在了我们的心里。我们要走了，要离开威基基海滩，要离开夏威夷了，心中很是不舍，带着心中的不舍我们走了!

第三天我们从夏威夷走了，坐飞机还去了洛杉矶，波士顿，纽约，纽黑文，和华盛顿。但是最令我留恋和喜欢的地方就得数洛杉矶的迪士尼乐园啦!盼望着，盼望着，洛杉矶来了，迪士尼的脚步近了!经过了漫长的颠簸终于到了迪士尼了，全车人都沸腾了，唯独老师还那么淡定，还不忘叮嘱我们：“别一会儿玩的忘了时间，守时最重要啊!”，老师刚发完票，我和我的好朋友就一起冲进了迪士尼。当我们看好多人都往一个方向走时就使了一个小聪明：反方向走!果然不出我们所料，我们到地方没有那么多人排队，还没有一个小时，我们就玩儿了好几个项目，比其他人快很多，我们同行四个人连连称赞这条路选的好。就这样我们来到了矿山车这里，“矿山车，玩儿这个吧!”我提议说。四人一致通过，我们向矿山车进发!到了那儿，我们谁都没说话，只是互相对视了一眼，立刻默契的像箭一样冲了过去。说着，笑着，走着，我们兴奋地坐上了车，大家都很期待，每个人都想体验一下矿山车，我们坐下后都很轻松的说笑着，突然车子以迅雷不及掩耳之势冲了出去，我“啊”的大叫出来，这时只看到两边的物体和人飞一般的闪过去，耳旁的风也呼呼的，所有的物体都几乎看不清了!车子不断地急转弯，我们的身体也跟着车子一起倾斜，感觉好像要飞出去了。“哇，好快啊!”同学们都被惊住了，“抓好啦，一个大斜坡儿!”我们所有人都忍不住尖叫起来，车子带着我们在空中不断的飞翔，有一种要飞向天空的感觉，我的围巾随着风左摆右摆，要飞出去了我下意识的伸手把它抓住了，我吓出了一身冷汗。一只手抓着扶手，一只手高举拿着围巾，它在空中飘舞着!车上的叫喊声一次高过一次，虽然开始很害怕但是我们慢慢适应后感觉很爽，就在我们沉浸其中的时候，矿山车停止了，车子平稳了。我们有些意犹未尽。从车上下来我们四人异口同声的感叹着：“爽”!接着我们又去玩了其它的项目，美好的时光总是过得很快，转眼间，黄昏来了，我们要走了“迪士尼”，再见吧!

美国之行结束了，但是那里的人们那里欢笑，还有一路上的同学情谊，都让我难以忘怀，通过这次美国旅游我感受到了不同国家的文化差异，切身感受了夏威夷美丽的威基基海滩……坐飞机回到了中国，心里默念着：再见吧!美国!再见吧，寒假!

"We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas"Have you heard that song? Yup! Its Christmas time! This Christmas, I stayed with my "host family"1. It was an amazing experience to see how a typical American family would celebrate the biggest western festival of the year.

Christmas, like our Spring Festival, has a meaning in itself. Christmas Day, which is on December 25, is the birthday of Jesus Christ--the son of God. Thats why it is called Christmas. On that day, Christians would get together with their families to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. But nowadays, the religious meaning of Christmas has become less emphasized. To many families, it is just a time of family reunion and the ever-exciting present-giving.

Our school had been on winter vacation since December 11. I stayed at my friend, Stephen Stapczynskis house--his family was my "host family". Although Christmas was still more than ten days ahead, the festive spirit had already been teeming everywhere. The Christmas tree had already been set up, and on every windowsill, there were Christmas lights. On the first day I arrived at their house, Stephen and I helped Mrs. Stapczynski put decorations on the Christmas tree. The tree looked so nice with all the lights on and the beautiful ornaments dangling from its branches.

As Christmas came closer, the whole neighborhood had made preparations too. Some people would hold parties at their houses, inviting all their neighbors to come. So every night, if you went out, you would see a long line of cars parked in front of some house--a partys on!

Whats more, the Christmas decorations that some people put on their windows and in gardens were just amazing. On one night, we went out in our car for a "tour of lights". There was one street that was so famous for its lights that it got its way into the local paper. We had a hard time finding the well-hidden street, but it turned out to be worth the effort. Lights shone brightly in front of nearly every house, on trees, bushes, doors, windowseverywhere, taking different shapes, making it seem almost like daytime. Huge inflatable figures in the front gardens were waving to us: there were Santa Clauses2, of course, chuckling merrily away; and there were also other Christmas figures, like Rudolph3--the red-nosed reindeer--with his red nose gleaming ever so brightly; even Bart Simpson--a character in the famous comedy The Simpsons--had joined the jolly party, wearing a Santas hat. The street set off a lot of "ooh"s and "aah"s inside the car.4 When we left, there was a line of cars in the street, all there to see the lights.

Christmas is the time for exchanging presents. Stephen and Niko had been thinking about their Christmas lists (a list of things they wish "Santa"to give them for Christmas) for a long time. I didnt want to ask for anything, but the Stapczynskis were so kind to "force"me make one list as well (Mr. Stapczynski told me if I didnt make one he would chop off my legs). So I wrote down a couple of things that I would like to have, and gave the list to them--sorry, my mistake--to Santa.

Finally, Christmas Eve came. There was a special Christmas service at the church at 6 p.m. It was certainly a very interesting experience for me. The priest started the service reading and sang out extractions from a holy book--The Divine Liturgy. For several times, we would stand up and pray.

Sometimes, the church choir would start singing. The atmosphere was very quiet and holy. Then there was a ceremony called "The Receiving Communion". People waited in line to "receive"a spoonful of food from the priest. It was a very special Christmas tradition. The food was made from bread and wine. The bread represents the body of Jesus, and the wine represents his blood. After this ceremony, the priest had a speech. He reminded us not to forget the true meaning of Christmas, and let Jesus really live inside us--that is, to love the people around us wholeheartedly. I think that no matter if you are a Christian or not, this principle should be part of our lives. After the priest finished his speech, the part that I enjoyed most came: Christmas carols5. Christmas carols are songs that people sing at Christmas, such as "Jingle Bells", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Silent Night"and so on. Some were very merry, others sounded quite holy, but all of them were beautiful. I closed my eyes, and let all the peacefulness and happiness that were in the songs flow through me. What a feeling it was!

We went to sleep earlier that day for we had to get up early on Christmas Day to open our presents. Sure enough, when I was still half-way during a sweet dream, Stephen burst into my room and told me to get up and open presents. There were a huge pile of presents under the Christmas tree, and there was such a mysterious mist shrouding them that made me eager to see what they all were. So one by one, we went through all the presents. Mr. and Mrs. Stapczynski had bought me everything I had written on my Christmas list--and a lot more! I got music CDs, film DVDs, clothes, books I was very happy, and I didnt know how to express my appreciation for what they had done for me.

Stephen and Niko had gotten a lot of presents too, and they had already been trying out their new games!

In the afternoon, we went to Mrs. Stapczynskis brother, Uncle Stans house. They had prepared a marvelous meal for us. A lot of their friends and relatives also came. I saw Stephen and Nikos grandparents, Yiayia and Papou (words of grandma and grandpa in Greek--Mrs. Stapczynskis parents came from Greece, so they like the boys using Greek words to call them). They were very kind to me, and treated me just like one of their family members. We had a very luxurious meal, consisting of turkey, beef, pork, and all sorts of other food.

After the meal, when all the stomachs were full and everyone was feeling drowsy6 from all the food, we just sat around the table and chatted, just like what we Chinese people do at the Spring Festival. After all, Christmas, like the Spring Festival, is a time for us to get away from our busy lives, a time for family gathering, and a time to have some fun.

There are varying opinions as to the origin of Valentine‘s Day. Some experts state that it originated from St. Valentine, a Roman who was martyred for refusing to give up Christianity. He died on February 14, 269 A.D., the same day that had been devoted to love lotteries.

Legend also says that St. Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer‘s daughter, who had become his friend, and signed it From Your Valentine. Other aspects of the story say that Saint Valentine served as a priest at the temple during the reign of Emperor Claudius. Claudius then had Valentine jailed for defying him. In 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honour St. Valentine.