Our university is known as a garden university.Its beauty is beyond description. Everywhere you can see clumps of trees with extending branches and twigs.The classroom buildings are buried in trees.Th
I have two friends,Li and Yang.It's funny to see that they have a lot in common.Li has many hobbies,such as stamp collecting and playing the violin.Yang also likes stamp collecting and music,but he pl
I like the Chinese new year better than any other festival. This is a time especially for rest and joy. I need not study. I wear good clothes and eat good food. I have a good time from morning till ni
Looking at the picture,I can't help remembering one episode of my childhood.I was ten then and studied in a primary school.Like all children,I like to play after school and hated to sit at the table w
Some people do not seem to have a mind of their own.They never express their own opinions and they do not make their own decisions.My brother is one of these people.Last night,for example,he was plann
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The authors of the American Declaration proclaimed happiness to be one of the essential rights that make life worth living. William James, the first America
I still remember the day when I first came to the college. Being a boy of 17, I was longing for a new life as a college student; but, at the same time, I had no idea what college life would be like. T
Everyone recognizes the importance of speaking English well, knowing that what we say and how we say it determine to a very great extent the opinion that other people form about us. However, how to ma
Nowadays, it is a commonplace that children own startle amount of pocket money. These new moneybags never earned one dollar but had glorious consumptive point of view. As far as I am concerned, we sho
On Saturday evening last week,there was a traffic accident on a motorway in a suburb of Wuhan. It happened when a car and a truck collided.The former was speeding up the road,while the latter moved un
One night Mr Lee was driving his wife home from work. She was a nurse in a hospital. It was almost midnight and she was quite tired out. She soon fell asleep. Mr Lee looked at her and smiled. Mr Lee w
When students finish their high school courses and enter the classrooms of a college or a university, they will deal with new classmates, new teachers, new requirements of study, in a word, a complete
My bedroom is on the second floor,facing the north.It is small,crowded,but neat. As you enter the room you are stopped short by four bunks which occupy much space of the room.On your left,against the
Last Sunday I wanted to buy a new clothes for my sister as her birthday gift.I rode my bicycle to town.As the street was jammed with people,I had to get off the bicycle and walked along the road. Whil
Slowly and quietly,spring is coming towards us.The weather is getting warmer and warmer,branches of trees begin sprouting new leaves,and all kinds of birds fly merrily in the sky.A new year begins. Lo
A summer of tow years ago, accompanied with my father, I went to Xinjiang to see my aunt and cousins who came to Shanxi to see us one year earlier. So this may be called a return visit ,just as Presid
The clock struck eleven at night.The whole house was quiet.Everyone was in bed except me.Under the strong light,I looked gloomily before a huge pile of disgusting things they call books.I was going to
My hometown is a beautiful place with a pupulation of eight million.It stands beside the Gulf of Bohai. Tianjin has many high office and commercial buildings and wide tree-lined streets.Several excell
Two year ago,the Chinese government set out a plan to build the Asian Olympic Center of Beijing to welcome the Eleventh Asian Games.Now the Center has been set up. The Asian Olympic Center includes tw
Yesterday was one of those awful days for me when everything I did went wrong.First,I did't hear my alarm clock and arrived late for work.Then I didn't read my diary properly and forgot to go to an im