小学生介绍长城的英语作文【汇集20篇】

我叫xx，已经是三年级的学生了。我是一个活泼好动的小男孩。我身高1米46，8岁了。我的个子非常高，我有一头黑黑的头发，浓浓的眉毛下有一双炯炯有神的大眼睛，高高的鼻梁下有一张大大的嘴巴。

我最喜欢打篮球了，我刚开始不喜欢打篮球，因为打篮球会流很多汗，还有可能受伤，只要每次体育课有打篮球，我都会尽量的避免和它接触。总感觉打篮球是一项危险的体育运动。但是有一次，学校来了深圳体委的副教练，他的个子非常高，他给我们上了一节观摩课。当时给我印象最深刻的一句话：打篮球可以增强我们的团队合作精神，还可以帮我们强身健体。

后来上体育课的时候，我抱着一颗尝试的心去打篮球，我们在操场上奔跑，跳跃。将球传给队友，只要我们投进去了，我们就会互相击掌，拥抱。尽管汗水再多，我也不觉得很累。因为我很高，所以在投篮球上占了很大的优势。我非常喜欢打篮球这项体育运动，我要把打篮球合作和团结的精神传递给同学们。

Today is sunday may 25 20xx.i go to the zoo whit my friends.the weather is sunny and cool!look!the elephants are drinking water.the birds are flying,the tiger is walking with lion.look at the river !

the fish are swimming in the water . the mokeys are swinging .oh no!the weather is terrible.it’s rainy. we are go home watch tv and play the game!i very not happy!

去图书馆看书

The weather of today is very comfortable, though the weather forecast said

it is cloudy, but just a little bit rain, very cool.

今天非常炎热，一大早起床就感觉闷热的难受。吃完早饭妈妈让我陪同她去买菜我也没去。因为实在是太热了，感觉动一下手指头身上都在向外冒汗。

The weather forecast said it is cloudy, and friends about to play

basketball, but unfortunately, in the rain can play. Afternoon after the rain

stopped to help my mother to buy food supermarket. Generally bad mood today.

下午到市图书馆看了一下午的书。因为图书馆有空调可以吹，而且书也比家里的多太多了。顺便查了一下日全食的资料。

The Great Wall

The Great Wall building has a long history, vast engazuowenng magnificent, is the worlds rare miracle. The Great Wall is the four corners of the world, stretching in our great motherland vast land. It looks like a great dragon, surmounts lofty hills, through the vast grassland, across the vast desert, towards the vast sea. According to historical records, more than 20 states and feudal dynasty built the Great Wall, if constructs each time the Great Wall together, about 100000 miles above. The length of the Great Wall that was built by The Qin, Han, and Ming 3 Dynasty was more than 10 kilo miles. Now our country Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other province, city, autonomous regions have the ancient the Great Wall, peak fire platform remains. Of which only the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region the Great Wall amounted to more than 3.

The Ming Dynasty in the" outside" beyond the Great Wall, also built" inside" and" three" the Great Wall the Great Wall. " Neiguan" the Great Wall in the Northern Qi Dynasty had built for the foundation, from Inner Mongolia and Shanxi at the junction of west east “Pianguan”, the Yanmenguan, flat various pass into Hebei, and then turned to the northeast, Fangshan, Changping, the source

of all counties, to pass, and then by the North and East, Huairou to the four customs, and" outside" is connected to the Great Wall, Zijingguan as the center, generally in a north-south direction. " Three" the Great Wall in many places and" inside" the Great Wall, some places two cities are separated by only tens of in. In addition, but also to build a large number of" repeated walls". Yanmenguan area" repeated walls “to have 24 much!

The Great Wall is the working people in ancient China created the miracle. Beginning with QinShihuang, constructs the Great Wall always is a big project. According to the record, QinShihuang used the million of labors to build the Great Wall, occupy countrywide population 1 / 20! There were no machinery, in addition to earth, carrying bricks can use donkeys, goats can climb the cattle, all labor and all must rely on manpower, work environment and high mountains and lofty hills, cliff. Can imagine, no large crowds on hard work, is unable to complete the great project.

The great wall of the engazuowenng quantity, according to rough estimates, only constructs take the Ming Dynasty as an example, if its masoy, earth is used to build a thickness of 1 meter, 5 meters high walls, circled the earth for over a week. If used for paving a 5 meters wide, 35 cm thick road, it could circle the earth three or four

weeks. If all dynasties built a total of 50 thousand kilometers calculation, then this wall can rotate around the earth several weeks, this road, around the earth in thirty or forty weeks.

“Because of the terrain, with risks for plug" is the construction of the Great Wall is an important experience, in the age of QinShihuang had it down, Sima Qian writes it to" historical records". Later each dynasty build the Great Wall are in accordance with the principle of. Who built Guan Cheng pass are the right and wrong choice between two mountains canyons, or river turning point. Or flat contacts pass through, so as to control is important, and may save the manpower and materials, to achieve “If one man guards the pass, ten thousand are unable to get through. Ten thousand cannot force it," effect. Built a castle or Beacon Tower is selected in the" appeared to place" for building a wall, is the full use of the terrain, such as Juyongguan, the Great Wall in Badaling are built along the mountain ridge, some lots from the lateral walls look very steep, we receive" inside is smooth, easily defensible ." effect of. In the territory of Liaoning, Liaodong town of Ming Dynasty the Great Wall has called a precipitous wall, wall of the hill, is the use of vertical cliff, precipice slightly to split cutting you will become the Great Wall. Some places

completely using the cliffs, rivers and lakes as a natural barrier, it can be called art beats nature. The

Great Wall, as a great project, become the Chinese nation is a valuable heritage.

长城修筑的历史悠久，工程雄伟浩大，是世界少有的奇迹。长城东西南北交错，绵延伏于我们伟大祖国辽阔的土地上。它好像一条巨龙，翻越巍巍群山，穿过茫茫草原，跨过浩瀚的沙漠，奔向苍茫的大海。根据历史文献记载，有20多个诸侯国家和封建王朝修筑过长城，若把各个时代修筑的长城加起来，大约有10万里以上。其中秦、汉、明3个朝代所修长城的长度都超过了1万里。现在我国新疆、 甘肃、 宁夏、 陕西、 内蒙古、 山西、河北、北京、 天津、 辽宁、 吉林、 黑龙江、河南、山东、湖北、湖南等省、市、自治区都有古长城、峰火台的遗迹。其中仅内蒙古自治区的长城就达3万多里。

明朝在“外边”长城之外，还修筑了“内边”长城和“内三关”长城。“内关”长城以北齐所筑为基础，起自内蒙古与山西交界处的偏关以西，东行经雁门关、平型诸关入河北，然后折向东北，经来源、房山、昌平诸县，直达居庸关，然后又由北而东，至怀柔的四海关、与“外边”长城相接，以紫荆关为中心，大致成南北走向。“内三关”长城在很多地方和“内边”长城并行，有些地方两城相隔仅数十里。除此以外，还修筑了大量的“重城”。雁门关一带的“重城”就有24道之多!

长城是我国古代劳动人民创造的奇迹。自秦始皇开始，修筑长城一直是一项大工程。据记载，秦始皇使用了近百万劳动力修筑长城，占全国人口的1/20!当时没有任何机械，除运土、运砖可以用毛驴、山羊能爬山的牲畜外，全部劳动都得靠人力，而工作环境又是崇山峻岭、峭壁深壑。可以想见，没有大量的人群进行艰苦的劳动，是无法完成这项巨大工程的。

万里长城的工程量，据粗略估计，仅以明朝修筑为例，若将其砖石、土方用修筑一道厚1米、高5米的大墙，可环绕地球一周有余。如果用来铺筑一条宽5米、厚35厘米的马路，那就能绕地球三四周了。如果把所有朝代所修的总计10万里来计算，则这道长墙可绕地球十几周，这条马路，可绕地球三四十周。

“因地地形，用险制塞”是修筑长城的一条重要经验，在秦始皇的时候已经把它肯定下来，司马迁把它写入《史记》之中。以后每一个朝代修筑长城都是按照这一原则进行的。凡是修筑关城隘口都是非曲直选择在两山峡谷之间，或是河流转折之处。或是平川往来必经之地，这样既能控制险要，又可节约人力和材料，以达“一夫当关，万夫莫开”的效果。修筑城堡或烽火台也是选择在“四顾要之处”至于修筑城墙，更是充分地利用地地形，如像居庸关、八达岭的长城都有是沿着山岭的脊背修筑，有的地段从城墙外侧看去非常险峻，内侧则甚是平缓，收“易守难攻”之效。在辽宁境内，明代辽东镇的长城有一种

叫山险墙、劈山墙的，就是利用悬崖陡壁，稍微把崖壁劈削一下就成为长城 了。还有一些地方完全利用危崖绝壁、江河湖泊作为天然屏障，真可以说是巧夺天工了.长城，作为一顶伟大的工程，成为中华民族的一份宝贵遗产。

我叫刘益阳，有一头乌黑的头发，淡淡的眉毛，一双炯炯有神的小眼睛，一笑，眼睛就眯成了一条缝;我很调皮，是一个活脱脱的“假小子”，还有一张爱夸海口的嘴，喜欢给别人起外号，还为自己的“创意”自鸣得意。我在班上人缘很不错，我的绰号——“流氓兔”。

我有很多爱好，比如：收集贴画、听着MP3唱歌、阅读中外名著等等。其中，我最喜欢听着MP3唱歌了！有一次，我听《北京欢迎你》，觉得太好听了，就一边听，一边跟着唱了起来。我唱着唱着，脑海中还浮现出这首歌MTV中的画面，我还洋洋自得地用手打起了拍子。我心想：“要是我能学会这首歌，那该多好啊！”功夫不负有心人，一个星期后的一天，我正在帮妈妈洗菜，不知不觉就哼起了《北京欢迎你》。“呦，唱得不错啊！”妈妈在一边夸奖我，我这才反应过来，自己竟然能一字不落地唱下来了。当时我激动得热泪盈眶。后来我拿这首歌去参加过好多比赛，还获奖了呢！

我是一个不折不扣的电脑迷，一到周末，我总会挤出时间在网上冲浪。妈妈总是说：“你呀！整天在家里玩电脑，胡同里的小朋友，你一个也不认识！”其实，我是一个好奇心很重、非常好动的小女孩儿。

如果想知道更多，就跟我交朋友吧！

My teacher is very strict, also is very nice. Because of the strict teacher, let we learned to strict with myself. Because of the teachers kindness, let us feel warm, let the knowledge we learned several not over.

My teacher looks very strict, but very kind at heart, she kind of eternity like waves, will not change. As bright as the sun, her eyes filled with wisdom, laugh very natural, very nice. Her mind is the source of wisdom, ask the teacher shell answer out wonderful answer, led we came to the sea of knowledge, with the wisdom of key to open the doors of magic, share knowledge, discuss problems together.

各位老师各位同学早上好：

我是x年级一班中队长xxx，爸爸说男儿当志存高远，心胸宽广如浩瀚的海洋，故名“浩洋”。我是一个非常乐观的男孩子，我认为我们应该分享每一分钟的快乐时光。在家里，我是一个很听话的孩子，不会只顺着自己的性子来，因为我知道，爸爸妈妈生我们养我们不容易，又那么的疼爱我们，我们不能惹他们生气。有时我做错了事,我也会跟爸爸妈妈道歉。在学校里,我是一个听老师话，不和同学打架、上课认真听讲，遵守纪律、下课和同学玩耍嬉闹，和和气气、作业按时完成、考试成绩也还可以，在老师心目中是个好学生。当然我也不会亏待自己，累了也会出去和小朋友们玩，跑的大汗淋漓，脸上却荡漾着开心的笑容.。我的爱好广泛，书法、画画、唱歌、听音乐、读书。我的最喜欢的是书法和唱歌，在我看来，书法能修身养性，音乐能陶冶情操??我是一个像向日葵一样追求阳光的男孩子，我的人生观是快乐每一天，希望我可以把快乐带给大家!谢谢！

When I was picking up my stuff after school， I saw a dog staring at me at the school gate .I was kind of scary. I thought the dog would bite me when I was going out. But it was not. The dog started to follow me. I was very afraid. I started to run away， but the dog did it， either. Suddenly， the dog ran pass away me. I realized the man in front of me was the owner of the dog. I was relieved.

From then on， as long as a dog stares at me， I will look back to have a look whether there is another person near or not.

I am very excited! We are taking a vacatim. Around china. We are going to harbin by train. We are going sightseeing there. After. We go to see snow. And go to the beach. Playing volleyball beach. Then we going hiking in the mauntains. We are very happy. Show you our photos when we go back to school. today I very tire,But I very happy!

When the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerbergs daughter was born, he

announced a general decision and surprised the world. Mark told media that he

would donate 99 percent of his fortune to the charity organizations. Some people

wonder why he did not save the heritage for his offspring. In fact, in western

countries, for some rich people, they dont trend to leave much fortune for

their kids, instead, they use the money to educate their children and cultivate

them to be the wise persons. The rich people leave the invisible fortune, which

is their fame. Their children can have more chances to do their business or

receive better education with their family names. The wise rich men know the

best way to educate their offspring. They teach skills and the way of thinking,

which values everything.

Dear Sir,

I saw your advertisement for

Imagine my surprise when all I got in return was a box of matches! I could understand a mistake. I might even pardon a joke. But in this case, your advertisement is a deliberate lie since a friend of mine who also sent the coupon got the same result.

I think its a shame to promise an economical lighter when in fact you are not selling a lighter a1 all. Instead of saying it works quickly, you should admit that you are offering matches. And what about

I regard your advertisement as a serious deception and demand that you send me my money back immediately. Otherwise I will take active steps to make sure the Consumers Association hear about it.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Li

我叫陈田丽珠，今年10岁了，在民主小学上学。

我长的不怎么样，一双水汪汪的小眼睛，一个踏鼻子，一张刀子似的嘴巴，我喜欢跳皮筋、玩电脑、跳绳。。。。。。

那是我学跳绳的一天，我正和同学玩的.正欢，忽然，姐姐来了，她说：“我们去玩跳绳吧！”我说：“可是我不会跳呀。”她说：“我来教你”我答应了。姐姐当起了跳绳的老师，指手画脚的教起我来，尽管她教的那样认真，我还是不会，我有点灰心了，姐姐她说做什么事一定要有恒心，我相信姐姐的话，认真的学起来，功夫不负有心人，不一会儿，我学会了，我高兴极了。

同学们你们学什么东西一定要耐心才能学好，相信我！

大家好，我叫顾澄婕，今年10岁了。

我是一个活泼又可爱的女孩，我最喜欢穿粉红色的衣服了。我的兴趣爱好是画画和弹古筝，我最喜欢的课是语文课和英语课。

我，一个在大家眼中冷漠的我;我天资聪明，越难的题我越能做出来，但简单的题却很马虎;我时时贪玩，时时文静;值日我最认真，我叫王璐瑶，你喜欢我么?在生活上，爸爸妈妈都非常喜欢我，因为呀我很听他们的话。我学习还行，的过许多奖状，缺点是喜欢看电视非常影响学习。以后我要改正我的缺点，发扬我的优点，做一个人见人爱的小女孩。

Fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also called DuanYangJie,

afternoon day festival, may festival, ai festival, terminal five, C______,

midday, summer day. Although the name is different, but all around the custom of

the peoples holiday is the same. The Dragon Boat Festival is Chinas two

thousand years old customs, on this day, every family hanging mo_a calamus,

dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, drink realgar wine, swim all ills, sweet

bursa.

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, you know the origin of the Dragon Boat

Festival? ! I dont know! Let me tell you! Do you remember the patriotic general

chu qu yuan? I to say him!

Qu yuan is the warring states period abroad, very learned. He beside the

king a few to image is his country rich and strong. Treacherous court official,

listen to the words, bad king king chu qu yuan _iaoZhi e_ile. In e_ile, qu yuan

heard that chu capital held by the enemy, and the people suffer, very

indignation. Falls on this day, he came to the miluo river edge, with a stone,

in order to jump jumped into the miluo river. Abroad people hear that cast jiang

qu yuan was very sad. They rowed steadily to salvage qu yuan, with tears in

their eyes, also threw rice dumplings into the river feed the fish, hope that

the fish dont harm the body of qu yuan. This is may duanyang the origin of

zongzi.

The Dragon Boat Festival has a lot of interesting activities. Columns such

as dragon boat racing, hanging sachet, sachet, cinnabar, realgar, _iang,

outsourcing to wire cloth, fragrance 4 e_cessive, again the five-color silk

string into a rope buckle, for all kinds of different shape, form a series,

variety, and e_quisite. Have the habit of hanging mo_a leaf, calamus.

There were so many activity in the Dragon Boat Festival!

农历五月初五为端午节，又称端阳节、午日节、五月节、艾节、端五、重午、午日、夏节。虽然名称不同，但各地人民过节的习俗是相同的。端午节是我国二千多年的旧习俗，每到这一天，家家户户挂艾叶菖蒲，赛龙舟，吃粽子，饮雄黄酒，游百病，佩香囊。

今天是端午节，大家知道端午节的来历吗?!不知道吧!那就让我来告诉你们吧!你们还记得楚国那位爱国大将屈原吗?我来说一说他吧!

屈原是战国时期出国人，很有学问。他在楚王身边做官，以形象是自己的国家富强起来。昏君楚王却听信奸臣的话，把屈原削职流放。在流放中，屈原听说楚国的都城被敌人占领，百姓遭难，悲愤极了。五月初五这一天，他来到汨罗江边，怀抱一块石头，以纵身跳入汨罗江中。出国的百姓听到屈原投江的消息，都十分悲痛。他们含着泪划着船赶来打捞屈原，还把粽子扔到江里喂鱼，希望鱼儿不要伤害屈原的身体。这就是五月端阳包粽子的来历。

端午节还有许多有趣的活动。列如赛龙舟，挂香囊，香囊内有朱砂、雄黄、香药，外包以丝布，清香四溢，再以五色丝线弦扣成索，作各种不同形状，结成一串，形形色色，玲珑夺目。还有挂艾叶、菖蒲的习惯。

端午节的活动可真多啊!

Dear Professor Smith,

I am Li Hua, chair of the Students’ Union of Xinhua Middle School. Our school will have the Second Culture Festival next weekend and I am writing to invite you to give us a lecture about the cultural differences between America and China, which will begin at 9 o’clock and end at 11 o’clock on Nov. 28th in Classroom 201 of the third teaching building.

As an expert in international culture, you must have a good knowledge of the cultural differences between America and China, so we hope you could help us increase our knowledge and clear some cultural confusion.

Could you please contact us in advance at Englishtec @163.com if you could come to our culture festival? We are looking forward to your reply.

Yours，

Lihua

亲爱的老师同学们，大家好，我叫朱幽颖，我是小学四年级二班的一名学生。

同学们都说我像小燕子一样活泼开朗，可爱。嘻嘻，平时下了课我们一起玩耍，跳绳，跳皮筋，踢毽子，唱歌画画。老师还教会了我《让我们荡起双桨》有时候大家一起的时候，我会唱歌给大家听。大家都很喜欢听我唱歌。

“春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟”对了我也喜欢阅读诗歌，沉浸在诗的海洋中是一件多么美妙的事情啊。我平时在家最喜欢做的事情之一就是阅读了。大家别看我很活泼，但我有时候也很安静，会安安静静的临摹字帖，写下干净漂亮的字。

在课堂上听到老师们绘声绘色的讲课，我总是聚精会神的听讲，徜徉在知识的海洋里。我最喜欢做的一件事就是跟同学们一起讨论课堂上的难点，经过大家一起讨论学习，我们大家都受益匪浅。

也许是因为我的活泼开朗吧，班主任老师让我担任了学习委员，帮助老师们收发作业。谢谢老师对我的信任和同学们的支持。多么希望以后我跟同学们一起快乐健康的成长，用画笔描绘生活中的美妙。

I like to hear music so much, every time when I am in the bad mood, I will

take out my MP3, listening to the music, then all my worries will be forgotten.

Music is part of my life, I like rock music specially, Avril is my favorite

female singer, I like all of her songs. I wish someday I can have the chance to

watch her music concert.

大家好，我先一下我姓陈，名叫松，是一个很平常的男孩，胖胖的的脑袋瓜子，留着一头帅气的头发。那浓浓的眉毛下嵌着一双炯炯有神的大眼睛。那高高的鼻梁似乎没怎么引人注意，反而是那叽叽喳喳的大嘴巴惹人喜欢。我现在虽上了五年级，但身高只有1。35米。我正为我的身高烦恼呢。

我在班上算不上尖子生。但要是比体育项目的，那我可就是名列前茅了。（对不起，说得有些骄傲了）。我也是个“路见不平，拔刀相助”的人，只要朋友有难，我第一个冲过去帮助他，所以，我的知己才越来越多。可能也正是这样，我忙帮多了，头脑昏了，帮的倒忙也越来越多。

记得那一次，由于语文考试成绩是差上加差，最多也只是90分。老师大发雷霆，简直要置我们于死地，作业要我们把考卷（连短文）抄2遍。这对于高年级的同学算小菜一碟，但对于我们这才3年级的同学那可是比上天还难。但我在一个中午便把作业“OK”了，因为我有秘密武器。晚上，我去我要好的同学小煜家，发现小煜还在抄，我急于和他玩，无奈之下，我把我的秘密武器透露给他了。第一招：偷工减料：有些题故意漏抄。第二招：二笔齐写：右手握两枝笔，效果翻倍，那是快马加鞭。可真管用，小煜用了一小时，就搞定了。我们俩沉浸在玩乐的欢愉中。

回家后，我还得意洋洋地对妈妈说：“妈妈，我用哥哥教我的绝招帮小煜把作业做完了。”“去去去，别学你哥哥，你这样做作业，不但没记在脑袋里，而且，会养成坏习惯。”我听了，便去小煜家，和他决心不再用这招。

第二天，没想到妈妈还不忘这事情，去告诉了老师，结果，我与小煜被狠狠的批评了一顿。哎，倒霉真倒霉。

这就是我，一个普普通通的我，听了我的小学生，你们会喜欢我吗？

The Great Wall of China,also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000,is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century,during the Ming Dynasty,in order to protect China from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes.It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas now in modern day Mongolia and Manchuria.The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,946 miles),from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east,at the limit between China proper and Manchuria,to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor,the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty.This wall was not constructed as a single endeavor,but rather was created by the joining of several regional walls built by the Warring States.It was located much further north than the current Great Wall,and very little remains of it.A defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history.The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty,on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall that had been built before.The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people,who could scale the wall,but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property.

中国的长城,在中国也被称为10000年的长城,是中国古代建造防御工事结束从14世纪到17世纪初,明朝期间,为了保护中国从蒙古和突厥部落的袭击。它之前是几个墙建自公元前3世纪游牧部落的袭击来自现在在现代蒙古和满洲地区。长城延伸一个强大的6350公里(3946英里),从山海关在渤海湾东部,在限制中国的满洲,罗布泊新疆维吾尔自治区东南部的部分。

第一个主要墙建成第一个皇帝的统治期间,主要的短暂的秦朝的皇帝。这堵墙是不作为一个努力,而是由几个地区的加入墙由战国。这是位于比当前更北的长城,,仍然很少。北部边境的防御墙是建立和维护由几个王朝在中国历史上不同时期。仍然可以看到今天的长城建于明朝,规模更大、更持久的材料(固体石用于墙的两侧和顶部)比任何以前建成的墙。墙上的主要目的并不是将人拒之门外,谁能规模墙上,而是确保外的墙上半游牧的人无法跨越的马很容易与赃物或返回。

22 March 2006

Dear Ms. Reinhart,

I am terribly sorry that I failed to arrive at BLCU last Friday. I hope that this did not mess you up completely, although I know that you had already made some special arrangements for my visit with you parents and friends. I am very sorry about all that. I am sure you will be sympathetic, however, when I tell you that my father is dangerously ill in hospital, and that I found it impossible to leave for the visit when he is in this state.

My father was working very hard on his project on protecting the environment. I know the project has come to a very important stage. He and his assistants did not take regular rest for three weeks. Last night, my father had a heart attack and was soon sent to the hospital. The doctor said my father was in a very serious situation, and, he might need an operation.

24 hours have passed. Nothing has changed. I have to stay at the hospital. I will let you know if there is any good news.

I am sorry again and look forward to seeing you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Williams

Here is a difference between science and technology.Science is a method of

answering theoretical questions; technology is a method of solving practical

problems. Science has to do with discovering the facts and relationships between

observable phenomena in nature and with establishing theories that serve to

organize these facts and relationships; technology has to do with

tools,techniques, and procedures for implementing the findings of science.

Another distinction between science and technology has to do with the

progress in each. Progress in science excludes the human factor. Scientists, who

seek to comprehend the universe and know the truth with the highest degree of

accuracy and certainty, cannot pay heed to their own or other peoples likes or

dislikes, or to popular ideas about the fitness of things. What scientists

discover may shock or anger people--as did Darwins theory of evolution. But

even an unpleasant truth is more than likely to be useful; besides, we have the

option of refusing to believe it! But hardly so with technology;we do not have

the option of refusing to hear the sonic boom produced by a supersonic

aircraft-flying overhead; we do not have the option of refusing to breathe

polluted air. Unlike science, progress in technology must be our slave and not

the reverse. The legitimate purpose of technology is to serve peopie--people in

general, not merely some people; and future generations, not merely those who

presently wish to gain advantage for themselves.

We are all familiar with the abuses of technology. Many people blame

technology itself for widespread pollution, resource depletion and even social

decay in general--so much so that the promise of technology is obscured. That

promise is a cleaner and healthier world. If wise applications of science and

technology do not lead to a better world, what else will?