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介绍扬州的英语

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Yangzhou (Yángzhōu [扬州]), known as a city of gardens and alleys, is a destination that makes a trip to China unforgettable. Little known to most foreign travelers, Yangzhou is a proud retainer of ancient Chinese architecture, art, culture, traditional gardens and parks, cuisine, leisure, and commerce in a beautiful mixture of modernity with its rich 2,500 year history. The demolition sledgehammer has not made much headway here, leaving an increasingly harder to find view into the past. All in all, Yangzhou is the ideal place to experience unique aspects of Chinese culture, and is a relaxing break from other overly developed and commercialized urban centers in the region.

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篇1:学习方式英语作文

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Educators have known for a long time that people learn in different ways. That is why teachers present information in various forms. For example, as well as explaining a new language, language teachers often provide other learning experiences such as books, charts, videos, audio cassettes, songs, debates and group work. In this way, all students in a class have an opportunity to learn in the way that best suits them.

In the last 50 years or so, researchers have been studying learners in an attempt to identify all the possible learning styles that humans use. They have found that we can very roughly divide people into three groups — those who learn best through seeing, those who learn best through listening and those who learn best through moving, doing or touching.

Some research has identified eight distinct learning styles, and researchers have made up tests to find out which of these learning styles best suits different people. These tests show that, although most people have one dominant style of learning, they are also able to use other learning styles effectively. Some people even seem to have many different learning styles.

The advantage of knowing what kind of learner you are is that you can then study in the way that best suits your learning style.

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很早以前教育家们就知道人们的学习方式不尽相同。这就是为什么教师要以不同形式为学生提供信息。譬如,除了讲解新的语言外,语言教师还时常会运用书本、图片、录像、磁带、歌曲、辩论和小组讨论等形式以提供其他学习体验。这样,班上所有学生都可以有机会以最适合自己的方式进行学习。

在过去的大约50年中,专家们对学习者进行了研究,力图弄清人类使用的所有可能的学习方式。他们发现人们的学习类型大致可分三种:最佳视觉型、最佳听觉型和通过活动、操作或触摸取得最佳效果的类型。

一些研究还区分出八种不同的学习方式,并且研究者还使用测试手段试图发现不同的群体最适于哪种学习方式。这些测试表明,虽然大多数人具有一种主要的学习方式,但也可以有效使用其他学习方式。有些人甚至似乎具备多种学习方式。

知道你属于哪种学习类型的人的好处在于——你能运用最适合自己的学习方式进行学习活动。

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篇2:有关高中英语的自我介绍

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Introducing yourself is very important when you meet new people. You always want to make a good impression when telling others about yourself. Allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Pat and Im from Taiwan. Right now, Im a student. I study very hard every day. I like going to school because Im eager to learn. I enjoy learning English. Its my favorite class. I like to make friends and I get along with everyone. This is the introduction I give whenever I meet new people. It tells people a little bit about me and about what I like to do.

当你认识新的人时,介绍自己是非常重要的。你一定会想要在告诉别人有关自己的事,给别人留下好印象。让我来介绍我自己。

我的名字是派特,我来自台湾。我现在是学生。我每天都很用功念书。我喜欢上学,因为我渴望学习。我喜欢学英文。那是我最喜欢的课程。我喜欢交朋友,而且我和每个人都处得很好。这就是我每次认识新的人时,所作的自我介绍。它可以告诉别人一点关于我的事,还有我喜欢做什么。

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篇3:介绍国庆英语作文

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October 1stis the national day of our country, which is a public holiday for the whole country. It’s an important day that marks the beginning of PRC. On that day, there are plenty of celebrations holding throughout the country, from the central government to the general people. And public places, including big squares, parks are decorated in festive theme. In recent years, the national holiday means the golden week as well, which is a short holiday that all people expect to. With the improvement of living standards, people have more money and desire to travel and the golden week is a good chance for them. Besides, for those people who would not go out, it’s a good time to have a good rest as well. Therefore, the national day means a lot to the Chinese.

10月1日是我国的国庆节,这是全国的共同节日。这一天是中华人民共和国开始的标志。在那天,全国到处都有很多庆祝活动,上至中央政府到普通老百姓。公共场所,包括大的广场和公园,都装饰成节日主题。近年,国庆节同样也是所有人都期待的短假黄金周。随着生活水平的提高,人们又更多的钱和渴望去旅游,黄金周对他们来说是一个很好的机会。除此之外,对于那些不想外出的人来说同样也是休息的好时机。因此,国庆节对中国人来说意味着很多。

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篇4:介绍我的妈妈英语作文

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Mothers love, like a long river, she quiet, occasionally with a slightly ripples; Her clear, can see the activity on pebbles in the river; She gently, such as the spring breeze slowly to send me. Mothers love for me, I also countless. However, in my impression deepest is the following a few things:

It was a summer night, suddenly the power went out, cant blow fanner. Hot cant sleep, my mother took their fan back and give me a breeze, let me fall asleep. Not only has a comfortable and cool, cool wind also mixed with mom to my thick love, bring me into the sweet dreams.

Another time, I in his home village and play with my cousin. I and my cousin play together I run, but with a small stones I tripped and fell. After I get up, I found more lap a wound, the wound is big and red, and blood flow out, it hurt so much I tears dc. Mother took me to the next to the small clinic simple after disinfection, ready to take me back home, but she was afraid to touch my wound, it just took me home.

Every night when I was learning, every once in a while, mother will always ask me: "daughter, thirst not thirsty, drink some water." And then holding a large glass of water. Water is always warm, let the house is full of warm meaning. Her mother know that I am afraid of hot, so the water right every time. She drink a first, say: "hot", just pass me water to drink.

The father loves the mountain, a mothers love is like the sea. Drop a mothers love can make a mothers love of the great river. Mom, I love you!

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篇5:初中英语作文自我介绍带翻译

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Hello, my name is wang yan, a high heart can meet all of you, for me, is more stubborn, I decided that things will never change, unless you are right I was wrong.

Early in the morning, standing in front of the mirror, look in the mirror in the familiar face, feel oneself was a child, but I was in junior, is no longer a child.

Think of every little bit of good friends, unconsciously tears just climbed up the face, yeah! And did six years of his close friend, to this, that separate is separate, there must be many. But whats the use? Time is not to say stop. I still face the reality!

I am very forgetful, once, I cant find my shoes, anyway by mother remind later discovered I wash the shoes, on the outside. You said I am not forgetful forgetfulness.

I like the teachers help, but Im very careless, often counterproductive. Once the teacher asked me to help him finish his writing board, as a result, I listen to the blackboard writing all wipe up, the teacher without saying anything hard writing blackboard writing brush. The teacher got red in the face. Funny you say is not funny.

I am such a person, to welcome you all to find my friends! Im very good friends but oh ~ ~

一个十二岁的女孩,高高的个子,瓜子型的脸上镶嵌着一对大眼睛,长长的睫毛显得大眼睛十分灵动,不仅如此,她还遗传妈妈,双眼皮宽宽的,但是她也像妈妈一样戴上了眼镜。她有宽宽的脑门,鼻子下面是一张能说会道的嘴巴。你猜出这是谁了吗?其实,这就是我!

我在学校是一个乖巧听话,令老师喜欢的孩子,谁会相信这样一个女孩回到家就摇身一变,成了顽皮,又带着无理取闹的丫头了,但这却是事实。

在家里,我和妈妈吵吵闹闹是常有的事,因为互不服气。有一次,我和妈妈去参加她朋友的婚礼,当时下了雨,天气较凉,但我依然想穿着裙子去,妈妈不肯,为了这事,我们吵了起来。“可以穿,坐车去又不冷!”“不可能,你想感冒吗?”妈妈瞪着我,眼睛像葡萄一样大,我则毫不示弱,昂着头像小斗鸡似的,吵个不停。最后妈妈要发怒了,我一看,赶紧妥协,撇着嘴,带着满腔不情愿说:“不穿,行了吧。”这就是我,双面性格的我。

在学校担任班长职务的我,当然要开班会了。我清了清嗓子,走上讲台,开始了首次班会。

“同学们,我们今天来学习中学生日常行为规范……”我有条不紊的进行着班会,这可都要靠我平时积累的生活和六年在校的经验,而且还有我良好的语言表达能力。我按老师说的,提问同学,举例说明等等。要知道,现在我能站在台上大胆发言,是因为小学时担任过许多活动的主持人,充分锻炼了自己,所以我有信心开好班会。在老师的总结和同学们的掌声中我走下了讲台,顺利结束了班会。这就是我,自信勇敢的我。

每个星期天,我都不会错过科技频道《自然传奇》这个节目。有时看得入迷,妈妈叫我两三次我都没有听见。我喜欢它是因为它能告诉我自然界的许多知识,比如蚂蚁筑巢,各种蜘蛛如何捕食,植物的很多特点等等。而我最大的梦想,注意不是理想,就是去全球动植物最丰富的亚马逊丛林历险。这就是我,热爱自然的我。

这就是我,有双面性格的我;这就是我,自信勇敢的我;这就是我,热爱自然的我,你们了解我了吗?

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篇6:小学生英语自我介绍

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Hello,everybody.大家好

My names( ).我的名字叫( )

Im in Class( )Grade six of( )school.我在( )学校6年级()班级

Im tall(short).Im ( )centimeters.我很高(矮),我()厘米。

I like English very much.我非常喜欢英语

Beacuse English is interesting.因为英语很有趣。

So my English is very good.所以,我的英语很好。

I acquire many award.我获得过很多奖项。

I hope that every of you will love me。希望大家能喜欢我。

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篇7:英语自我介绍

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I am a 10 years old boy. Smart and handsome.

I am proud of myself. Because I can get perfect scores in Chinese, math and English. It is not good enough, I am also proud of being an elder brother. That is a Friday evening, my baby brother was crying all the time. My parents were both cooking for dinner. I said to my mum, let me look after this little thing. My mum said, Are you sure you can?  Yes ,believe me I can. I answered. Then mum went to the kitchen. I went towards my baby brother.  Oh baby, dont cry. I will sing a song for you I carried him and sing songs for him. After a while, he was asleep. I was so tired. My parents were happy and praised me a good boy.

This is my first time to look after my baby brother and I feel proud of myself.

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篇8:面试中的英语自我介绍

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my name is . there are 4 people in my family. my father is a chemistryteacher. he teaches chemistry in senior high school. my mother is an english teacher. she teaches english in the university. i have a younger brother, he is a junior high school student and is preparing for the entrance exam.

i like to read english story books in my free time. sometimes i surf the internet and download the e- books to read. reading e- books is fun. in addition, it also enlarges my vocabulary words because of the advanced technology and the vivid animations.

i hope to study both english and computer technology because i am interested in both of the subjects. maybe one day i could combine both of them and apply to my research in the future.

我的名字是。有4人在我的家人。我的父亲是一个chemistryteacher。他教高中化学。我的母亲是一名英文教师。她教英语的大学。我有一个弟弟,他是一个初中学生,是联考的准备。

我喜欢阅读,在我空闲时,英文故事书。有时我上网冲浪和下载电子书籍阅读。阅读电子书籍的乐趣。此外,还扩大了,因为我的先进技术词汇和生动的动画。

我希望学习英语和计算机技术,因为我感兴趣的是两个科目。也许有一天,我可以把他们和今后适用于我的研究。

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篇9:简单口语英语自我介绍

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Hello,everyone!Nice to meet you! My name is .I come from . junior middle school .I like English very much。 Usually, I listen to some English music. I think that English is very useful in the future so I study hard at it。 I have many friends . We help each other in the study and life。I love them very much. Thank you very much.

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篇10:大学英语社团自我介绍

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Good morning,ladies and gentlements, Its my honor to be here today. My name is Ramos, I am from Southeast University. My major is Mechanical design. In the past three years, Im always the top ten students in my class. I have passed the CET4 and CET6 with a high scores and also won the first prize scholorship in 214. In the university Im not only studying hard and but also actively join a lot of activities. I once participated in the Model united nation and organized some useful activities like English Corner for students English learning. My life in university is very colorful and fruithful, it helps me gain knowledge and makes me become more communicative and cooperative through leaning and activities.

Whats more, I worked for Quanfeng Group as a intern overseascustomers quality engineer this summer. I learned a lot about quality control, quality assurance, quality standard like ISO and EU. Last but not least, I also learned al ot more from custmers and designing engineers.

You know the overseas cusomers quality engineer requires the person who have excellent communication skills and proficient English skills to work with our overseas customers and engineers. Although sometimes its hard to solve the disputes, but it really helps me to build up my communication skills , capabilities and oral English.

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篇11:初中英语作文说说你喜欢哪种方式的旅行

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Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Which Mode of Travel Do You like? You should write noless than 150 words and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:

1. 有的人喜欢参加旅行社旅游(package tours)

2. 有的人喜欢自己独立行动(travelling on one’s own)

3. 比较这两种旅游方式,我喜欢的是……

范文:

With the general standard of living improvingand the working week becoming shorter,more andmore people are able to make a holiday trip toplaces of interest. While many like to joinpackage tours fro convenience,I prefer to traveln my own.

I like travelling on may own not only because it costs much less but because it gives a great degree of independence and freedom. Travelling on my own,I’m my own boss;and can decide when to start on my way,where to linger a little longer and which spot can be skipped over to save energy or time for another spot. I can always adjust my plan. On the contrary,in a package tour you’re deprived of as much freedom as in a military base. At the sound of the whistle,you have to jump up from a sound sleep and,with heavy-lidded eyes,hurry to the gathering place where you are collected and counted to board a coach. At the sight of the little flag waving,you must immediately take yourself away from the scenes you are marveling at and follow the guide whose sole interest is to cover all spots according to him strict schedule,regardless of the weather or your health condition.

True,you may encounter inconveniences if you travel individually,for instance,getting accommodations for the night and finding a place for meals. But nothing can be compared with the freedom which is vital to a person who takes a holiday trip mainly to escape from constraints of his routine life.

[初中英语作文说说你喜欢哪种方式的旅行

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篇12:关于有个性的自我介绍方式范文

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大家好,我是雨天,因为刚好出生在雨天,老爸又刚好姓夏,于是下雨天就首发出场了,而且妈妈也希望我如雨后春笋、天天向上哦!呵呵后来因为一部分人实在不忍心在晴朗的天气里叫我雨天,为避免引起混乱,就只好舍弃了这个颇有个性的简单名字,退而成小名了。我的大名也简单,其实就一个翌字,因为我出生的日子刚好是爸爸妈妈结婚2周年纪念日的第二日。夏翌谐音宁波话暇意,大家希望我暇暇意意,呵呵,有点嫌翌字太文绉绉,就把它给拆了,一分为二成羽立了。

大家都说我是个阳光女孩,因为我是开心果啊。我老是坐不住,呵呵,能跟小椅子成为好朋友,是老师和爸爸妈妈现在的最大心愿。我喜欢跳舞,但最好能跟着音乐自己起舞,不用按老师的要求练基本功;我喜欢画画,但最好是信手涂鸦,把小朋友的脸画成绿色也没关系;我喜欢溜冰,但最有趣的还是约上三五好友,一起练习如何摔跤

长大了,我想成为炒小菜的师傅,当然我也想念最好的大学。

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篇13:英语自我介绍·

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Good morning/afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is my great honor to be here and have this interview.

First of all, may I introduce myself please. My name is ....I"m ...years old. And I"ve just graduated from ... High School. I"m an active and optimistic person in daily life, and I like singing, shopping and watching TV with friends very much.

And most impotantly, I would like to let you know that, I"ve been interested in universities/institues of International relations, espeically its majors and environments, since my first year in high school. and I"ve also tried to know some more about them in my free time. My total points of the university entrance examination might not be good enough for our shool, however, I"ll be grateful if I have the chance to be a student here, and I"ll do my best in my study and college life and be an useful person in the furture.

Thank you very much!

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篇14:初一介绍春节英语

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The first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens and earth, officially beginning at midnight. Many people, especially Buddhists, abstain from meat consumption on the first day because it is believed that this will ensure longevity for them. Some consider lighting fires and using knives to be bad luck on New Years Day, so all food to be consumed is cooked the day before. For Buddhists, the first day is also the birthday of Maitreya Bodhisattva (better known as the more familiar Budai Luohan), the Buddha-to-be. People also abstain from killing animals.

Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usually their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.

Some families may invite a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the premises. Members of the family who are married also give red packets containing cash to junior members of the family, mostly children and teenagers.

While fireworks and firecrackers are traditionally very popular, some regions have banned them due to concerns over fire hazards, which have resulted in increased number of fires around New Years and challenged municipal fire departments work capacity. For this reason, various city governments (e.g., Hong Kong, and Beijing, for a number of years) issued bans over fireworks and firecrackers in certain premises of the city. As a substitute, large-scale fireworks have been launched by governments in cities like Hong Kong to offer citizens the experience.

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篇15:介绍秋天的田野英语

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Spring and summer autumn and winter, I like the season is autumn. There are many autumn scenery, but I like the field of autumn.

Rice fields, a string of rice with the wind nodded his head, and bent on the waist, really fun ah! Farmers are uncle of rice harvest, they smile, wrinkles also opened.

Corn in the corn like a golden gyro.

There was a leaf in the woods like a golden ocean. Ginkgo tree leaves like a small fan, fan fan ah, fan away the summer heat, ushered in the cool autumn. The leaves of the maple are like a stamp, and they float to the door of the little animal and tell them that the autumn is coming.

Orchard, orange said: "ah, I finally woke up." Persimmon said: "Come and eat me, I can eat" Apple blushed with a smile Banana is like a sickle, grapes like a purple ball, grapefruit seems like a yellow lantern, like a golden treasure gourd in Sydney.

The flowers in the field are beautiful. Pink, white, purple, purple, white, light yellow, a variety of colors. Pink color is to the rose flower, white, white, pale yellow color is to chrysanthemum, purple, purple color is to morning glory. Beautiful flowers are in every corner.

Autumn field is really beautiful! I love autumn. I think if the autumn is often fine.

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篇16:英语兼职教师面试自我介绍

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Pesonel statement(introduction)

Good morning,my dear teachers,my dear professors.i am very glad to be here for your interview.my name is song yonghao,i am 22 years old .i come from luoyang,a very beautiful aicent city.my undergratuade period will be accomplished in chang"an university in july ,2004;and now,i am trying my best for obtaining a key to tongji university.

Generally speaking ,i am a hard working student especially do the thing i am interested in. i will try my best to finish it no matter how difficult it is. when i was sophomore, i found web design very interesting, so i learned it very hard . to weaver a homepage for myself, i stayed with my pesonel computer for half a month.,and i am the first one in my class who own his homepage. For thermore,i am a person with great perserverence. during the days preparing for the first examination,i insist on running every day, no matter what the weather was like.and just owning to this,i could concentrate on my study and succeeded in the end.

well ,in my spare time ,i like basketball, tennis and chinese chess. also english is my favorate.i often go to english corner to practise my oral english on every thursday,and write compositions to improve my witten ability .but i know my english is not good enough ,i will continue studying.

Ok, that is all,thank you for your attention.

My hometown------luoyang

I am from luoyang,a beautiful city in henan province. it is famous as the "capital of nine dynasties " and enjoy yhe honer that luoyang peony is the best in the world. Luoyang played a very important role in chinese history. so it has a profound

cultural background and many great heritagesites have been well reverved. such as longmen grotto, one of the three grottoes in china ang white horse temple, being regarded as the cradle of chnese buddhism.

Luoyang peony is world-famous. every year, many tourists travel to luoyang to see the beauty of peony .the people in my hometown are friendly, they welcome the travellers from all over the world.

I like my hometown very much

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篇17:介绍故宫英语作文

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The majestic the Imperial Palace museum is a world famous one of the Royal buildings.

Into the Tiananmen, through the side door, gate, came to the gate, a large palace show in my eyes, this is the office of the Taihe palace, after the temple came to the temple and temple, and there is. Each house has Zhu Hong walls and gates, the roof is covered with yellow glazed tiles. After then, then turn a corner, I saw a small door in the door, look right, see nine, nine engraved with nine dragons, their colors are white, blue, yellow, black four kinds of shapes of them, no two are the same. Over history, then from the left door into the room to watch. When I entered the room when I watch, startled, apparently came to the bell of the Kingdom, the clock of the ocean, big and small Guzhong row upon row of, a mahogany clock fan a superb collection of beautiful things, characters, gilded bronze green shark skin chronometer, clepsydra, hardwood carved since the name of clock, there are 1000 kinds of clock. The watch room, turn a circle came to the Imperial Garden, Imperial Garden, beautiful scenery, there are four flowers, the flowers are not welcome, that kind of opened again. There is a rockery in the middle of the garden, and the rockery is more beautiful under the cover of the surrounding grass.

The Imperial Palace Museum, the beautiful scenery everywhere, not to say that, I hope you have a chance to appreciate.

雄伟壮观的故宫博物院是世界闻名的皇家建筑群之一。

走进天安门,经过端门,午门,就来到太和门,一座高大的宫殿展现在我的眼前,这就是皇上办公的太和殿,经过太和殿就来到中和殿,过了中和殿就是保和殿。每个殿都有朱红的宫墙和大门,屋顶上盖的是黄色的琉璃瓦。过了保和殿,再拐个弯,就看到一个小门,进了门,向右看,就看见九龙壁,九龙壁上刻着九条龙,它们的颜色分别是白,蓝,黄,黑四种,它们的形状各异,没有哪两条是相同的。过了九龙壁,再从左边小门进去,就来到钟表室。当我进入钟表室时,我不禁愕然,分明是来到钟的王国,钟的海洋,大大小小的古钟鳞次栉比,琳琅满目,有红木人物风扇钟,铜镀金绿鲨鱼皮天文钟,铜壶滴漏,硬木雕花自名钟等,一共有钟表1000多种。过了钟表室,转个圈儿就来到御花园,御花园景色优美,四季都有花开,这一种花还没有谢,那一种又开了。花园中间有个假山,在周围小草的掩映下,假山更漂亮了。

故宫博物院到处有美丽的景色,说也说不尽,希望有机会你去细细赏玩。

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篇18:大学开学英语自我介绍

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My name is___________ . There are 4 people in my family. My father is a Chemistry teacher. He teaches chemistry in senior high school. My mother is an English teacher. She teaches English in the university. I have a younger brother, he is a junior high school student and is preparing for the entrance exam.

I like to read English story books in my free time. Sometimes I surf the Internet and download the E- books to read. Reading E- books is fun. In addition, it also enlarges my vocabulary words because of the advanced technology and the vivid animations.

I hope to study both English and computer technology because I am interested in both of the subjects. Maybe one day I could combine both of them and apply to my research in the future.

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篇19:介绍打游戏英语作文

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To solve the problems concerning making friends on line, I think, the government should take strong measures to punish those who cheat people on line.

As for those Internet users, they should be cautious when making friends on line.

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篇20:介绍中秋节的英语

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The Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival is one rich in poetic(诗意的) significance. Ancient legends(古代的传说) that became interwoven with this festival‘s celebration further contribute to the warm regard in which it has always been held by the Chinese people. According to the lunar calendar(农历), the seventh, eighth, and ninth months constitute the autumn season. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, precisely in the middle of this season, when the heat of the summer has given way to cool autumn weather, marked by blue skies and gentle breezes. On this day the moon is at its greatest distance from the earth; at no other time is it so luminous. Then, as the Chinese say, “The moon is perfectly round.” In the villages the heavy work involved in the summer harvest has already been completed but the autumn harvest has not yet arrived.

The actual origins of the Mid-Autumn Festival are still very unclear. The earliest records are from the time of the great Han dynasty emperor Wu Di, who initiated celebrations lasting three days, including banquets and “Viewing the Moon” evenings on the Toad Terrace. We know that people during the Jin dynasty (265-420 A.D.) continued the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations, and similar accounts have come down to us from the time of the Tang dynasty. During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) houses and gardens were decorated with numerous lanterns and the sound of gongs and drums filled the air.

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