英文小作文

1.Among all the seasons, spring is my favorite. Everything starts to be bright when spring comes. Flowers and grasses are coming out. At the same time, the ice floating on the river starts to melt. I love the spring breeze becuase it makes me feel warm and relaxed. Birds are coming back from South to North. It is full of vigor.2. Sundays are everyone's love since students do not have to go to school and adults do not need to go to work.I usually go to parks on Sunday morning. After that , I may go visit my grandparents or my anut. It is always fun to meet them in my spare time. In the afternoon, if there is a good movie, I will go to the cinema and watch a movie with my friends. This is how my happy sunday likes.3.My fruit family is a real big family. It contains my favorite fruits such as apples, bananas, watermelons, oranges, and pineapples. Pears, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries are the most popular fruits for juice. Cherries, grapes,mangos,plums are healthy fruits, which are good to heart.4. Mr. Lee is our teacher. He is very popular and he likes us very much. Mr. Lee is not only our teacher, but also our friend. His favorite colors are greena and red. He has a lovely son. We love Mr. Lee as our teacher.5. My pencil case is rectangle shape. There is a hello kitty on my pencil case. What's more, there are a lot of different kinds of pencils and pens in it. Besides them, there is a green eraser and a long ruler. I put my pet's picture in my pencil case too because I love it so much.

在平凡的学习、工作、生活中，大家总少不了接触作文吧，作文是从内部言语向外部言语的过渡，即从经过压缩的简要的、自己能明白的语言，向开展的、具有规范语法结构的、能为他人所理解的外部语言形式的转化。你写作文时总是无从下笔？以下是我为大家整理的英文作文10篇，欢迎大家分享。

Competition is a common phenomenon in our society. We compete when we play games, we compete in our study, and we constantly compete for jobs, customers and profit, etc. We can say that competition is one of the motives of the development of society.

在社会生活中，竞争是一个普遍现象。在比赛中我们竞争，在学习中我们竞争。在找工作，赢得客户，获得利润等方面都存在着竞争。我们可以说竞争是社会发展的动力之一。

But we often find competition and cooperation go hand in hand. In a football game, one team is competing with the other. But each member of the team is cooperating with his teammates. In most cases, we can't compete without cooperation. Thus they are equally important.

但是我们经常发现，竞争与合作是相伴而生的。在足球比赛中，一个队和另一个队存在竞争。但每个队员和他的队友之间则是相互合作。在多数情况下，没有合作就没有竞争。因此，二者同等重要。

While we are advocating competition, we can't forget cooperation. Nothing can be carried to an extreme. Pure and exclusive competition leads to failure. Only when competition combines with cooperation can it help in obtaining our goals and satisfying our needs.

当我们倡导竞争时，我们不应忘记合作。任何事情不能走极端。纯粹的竞争只能导致失败。只有把竞争与合作相结合，才能有助于我们达到目标并满足自身需求。

中国——我的祖国，在这片神圣的土地，她正在演绎着翻天覆地的变化飞快发展的建设和日益强大的步伐，祖国的变化作文500字。

China, my motherland, in this sacred land, she is interpreting the earth shaking change, the rapid development and the increasingly powerful step, and the change of the motherland is written in 500 words.

听爷爷说以前，人们住的都是土窑洞。没有床人们只好躺地上，半夜寒风呼呼的吹进来，都快把人冻死了。连吃个白馒头都是奢侈。后来，人们住上了平房，但是，家里只有一个破旧的煤炉和几张摇摇晃晃的铺板床，吃的是白水煮面。现在，随着新农村的出现，人们住上了新房，而且家里的陈设特别多：沙发、彩电、电磁炉、空调等等……而屋子外部的墙刷得比雪还要白，窗户边上镶着一道金光闪闪的边，一眼望去，就像一座豪华别墅，又像一座梦幻王宫。这住的环境和以前相比可谓天壤之别。

Listen to Grandpa said before, people are living in caves. People without bed had to lie on the ground, and the cold wind blew in in the middle of the night, and they were freezing to death. Even eating a white steamed bread is a luxury. Later, people live in a cottage, but there is only a few old stoves and rickety plank bed, eat the noodles boiled in water. Now, with the emergence of the new countryside, people live in new houses, and the furnishings of the home are particularly many: sofa, color TV, electromagnetic furnace, air conditioning, etc. The wall outside the house was whiter than snow, a window with a glittering edge, one looked like a luxury villa, and like a dream palace. The environment is quite different from that in the past.

前几天是奶奶的生日，我们全家到酒楼吃了一顿异常丰盛的 晚饭。在宴会上，听奶奶转语重心长地对我说：“孙女，现在的生活是多么好啊！想当年，物资是多么贫乏啊，人们吃不饱、穿不暖，更别说这么丰盛的生日宴了。你要好好珍惜现在幸福的生活，好好学习。”我听了奶奶的'话，深深地体会到了：我们国家从贫穷到富有，科技从落后到超前，人们从步行到出入小轿车，这些的变化是多么大呀！

It was grandma's birthday a few days ago, and our family had a wonderful dinner at the restaurant. At the banquet, listening to grandma to sincere words and earnest wishes to me said: "now the granddaughter, life is so good ah! I think the material is so poor, people are not full, don't wear warm, let alone such a rich birthday party. You should cherish the happy life now, study well. " After listening to my grandmother's words, I deeply realized that our country has changed from poverty to wealth, technology from backward to advanced, and how great the change has been from people to cars.

如今我国的发展越来越快，变化也是非常的大，祖国的未来是靠我们来发展的，让我们好好学习。把我们的祖国变得更加美丽吧！

Now the development of our country is getting faster and faster, the change is very big, the future of the motherland is on us to develop, let us study well. Make our country more beautiful!

More and more college students, in recent years, are finding it difficult to find jobs. This may sound strange since college students used to be the "most favored" people in society. They have received a higher education, hence they are more intelligent, knowledgeable than their counterparts who failed to attend college. But chances are that some of them can hardly find jobs after graduating from colleges.

There are two reasons that account for this strange phenomenon. One is that some college students cannot come to terms with themselves and with the world around them. They pursue too high goals and are too particular about such factors as working conditions, salary, and so on. Therefore, they are reluctant to accept the job when they are offered to them. Another reason is that the majors some students pursue do not match with the demands of the job market. As a result, they can only sit and miss opportunities.

To solve this problem, I think college students should know their own strengths and weaknesses and have the right attitude towards themselves and the job vacancies. In addition, they should not attach too much importance to material aspects of the job. They should put priority to their future development and their contributions to society in stead. Furthermore, they should think of receiving some further training to meet the demands of society.

China nation has a strong family concept and always have family reunion in some important days. Family Reunion Dinner is an essential custom on New Year's Eve. They usually enjoy a big feast this day. And dumpling and fish are must during the Family Reunion Dinner on New Year's Eve. Some people will put a coin inside one dumpling. The people who eat this dumpling will be to thought be a lucky guy. The fish could not be eaten out because the fish means extra things by partial tone. And it represents the wish for a prosperous year with abundant and even extra wealth and luck.

On the eve of the New Year's eve, the streets are full of light, and all kinds of flowers are blooming in the night sky of the program, and the red and red couplets are hanging in each house.

On table filled up with all kinds of delicious dishes, the yellow, hot fry eggs, red crabs take oil, red, green, set each other off carrots stir-fry celery, sweet and delicious sweet and sour pork ribs, delicious braise in soy sauce meat... The delicious stewed duck was steaming, the duck was soft, and the fragrant duck soup had dried bamboo shoots and dried mushrooms, which made the mouth water.

"Dinner! Suddenly my mother shouted, the chopsticks were flying at the table. My father put a sweet and sour spare bone in my bowl. At once I gobbled up the food and ate my mouth full of oil. Everyone laughed.

I held up a cup full of cola, and said with a smile: "father, mother, I wish you every success in the year of the dragon, the life step is high, good luck every day, the longer the healthier." My father and mother also raised the cup and said, "my daughter, I wish you to study hard in the New Year and to learn more every day." I came back to my grandparents and smiled and said, "grandpa, grandma, I wish you happiness as immense as the Eastern Sea, live as long as the southern mountain!" Then everyone bless each other, the sentence of blessing in the restaurant echoed, a gust of warm current into the heart.

On the eve of the thirtieth night, I was very open and had a good time! If every day is big year 30, that should be good ah! I know it's just my wishful thinking. It's going to start in a few years. I should devote more enthusiasm to the hot study, strive for better results!

You know my holiday life was busy but wonderful.I got up at 7:00 every day.I did my homework in the morning so that I could finish my homework on time.I sometimes went shopping with my mother in the afternoon.But most of the time I did sports in the afternoon,such as,swimming,playing football,playing table tennins,going out for a walk and so on.I also went to Beidaihe with my parents and we spent three days there.I visited my grandparents and stayed there for a week.I read books,went to the movies,surfed the internet ,went to the library and visited my friends.I also helped my parents do the housework.What's more,I went to a tennis couse and learnt how to play tennis.So my summer holiday life was very intesting.

Before, our ocean is so beautiful, sparkling, refreshing, linger. But now?! These seas have been seriously polluted, and whether they are Yalong Bay or the Liuyang River, they can see piles of garbage and give off a bad smell.

So what caused it? We can only blame ourselves. They are mainly crude oil from oil tankers and oil wells, pesticides and fertilizers used in farms. The waste water from factories, outflow of mineral acid solution, they make the most of the ocean, lake pollution, biological results not only can grow, birds and humans may be poisoning death by eating these creatures. It's an incredible but sure number, with 25 thousand people (including children) dying every 24 hours from fish and fish in the polluted sea water. Not only that, the president of the Chinese Academy of engineering, the chairman of the lake environment research scientist, Professor Liu Hongliang

5500 km river research report shows that twenty-three point three percent of the river section water pollution serious and cannot be used for irrigation, forty-five percent river fish, eighty-five percent of drinking water standards do not meet the human, but also the ecological functions of rivers self-cleaning severe recession, severe situation. When our astronauts fly up into space and see our earth, what they see is a crystal ball with blue and white streaks interlaced. But if we pollute the sea again, then the blue will fade away and the earth will become white!

In order that we may have a better tomorrow and live a better life for our children and grandchildren, let us work together!

Happiness is for everyone.In fact,happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it.When you are in trouble at school,your friends will help you;when you study hard at your lessons,your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health;when you get success,your friends will congratulate you;when you do something wrong,people around you will help you to correct it.And when you do something good to others,you will feel happy,too.All these are your happiness.If you notice a bit of then,you can find that happiness is always around you.

每个人都会拥有幸福。事实上，只要你用心去感受，幸福时时刻刻都围绕在你的身边。当你在学校遇到了困难，你的朋友会帮助你；当你努力学习时，你的父母总是会照顾好你的起居饮食和健康；当你取得成功时，你的朋友会向你表示祝贺；当你做了错事，你身边的人会帮你纠正。当你善待他人，你自己也感到快乐。所有这些都是你的幸福。如果你能留意到其中的一点，你就能体会到幸福一直都围绕在你身边。

My favourite colour

我最喜欢的颜色

There're many different kinds of colour in the world, such as white, blue, orange, red, and so on. But my favourite colour is green.

在这个世上，有许多种不同的颜色，比如白色、蓝色、橘色以及红色等等。但是，我最喜欢的颜色是绿色。

I think green is the most beautiful colour. Do you know why? Because green is the colour of life. Do you think so?

我认为绿色是最美丽的颜色。你知道为什么吗？因为绿色是生命的颜色。你觉得呢？

As you know, most alive plants are green, like grass and trees. Green is good for our eyes, too. When your eyes are very tired, you will watch the green trees or green grass, they can help you to relax your eyes. And I think green is the nature colour, I love nature things.

就像你知道的，大多数植物是绿色的，像青草与树木。绿色也有利于我们的眼睛。当你的眼睛非常累的时候，你可以看看绿色的树木或绿色的青草，它们可以帮你放松你的眼睛。而且，我认为绿色是大自然的颜色，我爱自然的事物。

Can you tell me what your favourite colour is?

你可以告诉我，你最喜欢的颜色是什么吗？

Many of my classmates complain about their fathers, because they are busy all the time and barely have time to company them.

But my father is different, though he is busy, he still spare some time to play with me and help me with my homework.

I am so lucky to have such a father, he is the best father in the world.

在日常学习、工作抑或是生活中，说到作文，大家肯定都不陌生吧，写作文可以锻炼我们的独处习惯，让自己的心静下来，思考自己未来的方向。还是对作文一筹莫展吗？下面是我为大家收集的英文作文7篇，欢迎阅读，希望大家能够喜欢。

If I am a cloud.At a time when the land of drought,people rise into the sky cried:"Baiyun you,please you to get together quickly,give us a heavy rain under it." Deeply moved by these words my heart,I have to think of by "If the clouds are."

If I am a white clouds,sunrise time,I have to let the sun shine on me,it turned into a red roses; into a mighty lion,so that people gave me put an exclamation point.

If I were a white clouds,I will be blown up big desert.At this time,perhaps my is a grandfather of more than 60-year-old body can not afford to step one before,and issued a weak mouth,"water,water ." sound,dying to go thirsty.I am sad to shed a drop of tears,tears that drip Jingying to escape grandfather die clearance.Grandfather to see his smile,than the hearts of people ate honey sweet also.

At a time when the land of drought,people rise into the sky cried:"Baiyun Baiyun you,please you to get together quickly,give us a heavy rain under it." Deeply moved by these words my heart,I have to think of by "If 1 clouds are." If I were a white clouds,sunrise time,I have to let the sun shine on me,it turned into a red roses; into a mighty lion,so that people gave me put an exclamation point.If I were a white clouds,I will be blown up big desert.At this time,perhaps my is a grandfather of more than 60-year-old body can not afford to step one before,and issued a weak mouth,"water,water ." sound,dying to go thirsty.I am sad to shed a drop of tears,tears that drip Jingying to escape grandfather die clearance.Grandfather to see his smile,than the hearts of people ate honey sweet also.If a person is white clouds,the hot sun at the time,into the rain,so that people can keep cool.White clouds,white clouds...Then at me as if the sky blue,and explore the mysteries of it for people to contribute.

learning english is much more than a fad; it is really a must! let's take a look around us: the latest information around the world is written in or translated into english. to keep up with the ever-changing world, we must be equipped with a good command of english. from a more practical point of view, armed english is one of the most important required subjects for the university and high school entrance exam. to do well on the exam, we must, again, study hard to score high in the subject.

frankly, my english is not good. but i have been doing my best to improve my english in order to pass the college entrance examination .in my case, i force myself to memorize at least a few new words every day because a large vocabulary is essential in learning english well. second, i review some grammar rules every week, which helps me make fewer mistakes in writing english. third, i read short articles and then write an english composition every other day.

i hope to get high marks in both reading and writing. now my english is improving day by day, and i hope i can do well in the english test for the coming college examination.

写作解题时间为30分钟，分为三步：5分钟审题和构思，20分钟写作，5分钟检查可能犯的错误。下面分步骤说明。

(一)审题和构思

事实上提供给写作的时间不止30分钟。一般来说，各考场会提前5分钟左右将答题卡一发到学生手里，大一点的考场甚至可能提前10分钟发卷。这5到10分钟不允许学生作答，但考生完全可以用来做作文部分的审题和构思工作。注意审题一定要仔细，按要求写作，不得擅自改动题目，给定的提纲不得有遗漏，否则会按比例扣分。尤其注意，不要因为事先自己背过或练过哪篇相似的文章而死搬硬套。否则后果很严重。如，20xx年12月六级写作真题题目是College Students’ Mental Health，提纲为

1. 心理健康对于大学生很重要

2. 鉴于此，学校可以……

3. 我们自己应该……”

而在考试之前我出过一道类似的模拟题，题目为“Psychological Problems Among College Students”, 提纲为

1. 很多大学生有严重的心理问题

2. 产生这些问题的原因

3. 如何解决这些问题”

可以看出，我给的提纲是按照比较规矩的三段论来的，即“提出问题、分析问题、解决问题”。但真题的提纲并未要求考生分析问题，反倒有两段要写解决问题。有的考生因为看过或背过模拟题的范文，就直接照搬，导致了失分。

另外，构思不是打草稿。并不建议学生练习写作时养成打草稿的习惯。因为考场上时间有限，打完草稿再誊写很可能来不及。另外，更重要的原因是考场上不发草稿纸，一般也不允许往里带纸，难以找到打草稿的地方。考生只要花三五分钟做一下构思即可，即想象一下每段大致写什么，可以记几个关键词(比如在准考证空白的地方)提示自己，在接下来的二十分钟里面按照这几个关键词提示的内容扩展就行。一般来说，要求不少于150词的文章最好写到180到200词，就句子数目来说，如果分三段，每段也就三到五句话，平均四句一段。那么整篇文章大约10个关键词就可以做好构思。以20xx年6月六级写作真题为例。

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On the Importance of a Name. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.

1. 有人说名字(或名称)很重要

2. 也有人觉得名字(或名称)无关紧要

3. 我认为……

构思第一段时，想到可以来一句铺垫的话，如“名字重不重要是个有争议的话题”，可以写下controversial或topic，作为关键词;下一句是“有人说名字(或名称)很重要”，可以先写下important。再往后想两条理由或例证即可。理由如“好名字容易被记住，因而可以给人来更多机会”(关键词remember或opportunity)，和“按照传统理论起的名字可能会对人起到暗中庇护的作用”(关键词tradition或shelter);例证如“有人认为毛泽东伟大是因为名字就大气，Bill Gates有钱是因为他的名字可以表示钞票，姓表示很多大门，很多大门都来钱，所以有钱”。第二、三段情同此理。其实第一段想好了，后两段也就容易了。比如第二段可以将第一段的理由或例证反过来用，第三段可以总结或折中一下。字数还是比较容易写够的。

(二)写作

写作的过程当中，要注意这样几条高分策略。

字迹清楚，段落明朗(clear)：字体不要太大，也不要太小，以行间距的三分之一到二分之一为合适;另外，大小要一致，不要忽大忽小;字母的倾斜方向要一致，不要东倒西歪;要抵着给出的虚线写，不能上窜下跳;总之，要给阅卷人清楚、工整的感觉。段落一般为三段，采用段首缩进式，即每段开头空4至8个字母的格，每段段首缩进的量要一致，要让阅卷人一目了然。

内容完整，紧扣提纲(complete)：一般来说，六级写作都会给出三点汉语提纲，考生应严格按照三点写成三段。不要有遗漏，也不要随意改变提纲要点的顺序。因为阅卷人要在30秒左右的时间打出分数，所以不希望看到与提纲严重背离的作文。

首保正确，再求闪光(correct)：这一条是最核心的，因为在写作时间和篇幅都比较短的情况下，考生写出的内容几乎是一样的，唯一的判断标准几乎就是语言的质量。要首先保证语法和拼写正确，哪怕用小词、短句也可以。有能力的的话再追求闪光的词句。例如，有考生在写20xx年6月的作文时，写出了这样的开头句：There is no denying the fact that the vital of name has been a hotly debated topic in China. 这句话是套用我以往范文给过的句子，基本结构是对的，但有两处明显的错误。一处为vital，是个形容词，而这里应该用名词。作者可能想用一个牛词来替换importance以显示用词多样，结果弄巧成拙。另外一处错误为name之前应该有冠词a，其实题目中都给了，结果这位同学忽略了，缺乏基本的语法意识。其实作文中常犯的语法错误除了冠词错误，还包括时态错误、名词和动词单复数错误、代词不一致错误、词性错误以及句子主谓不完整错误。下笔时一定要谨慎。篇幅关系这里不能赘述。

先总后分，连词用上(coherent)：这里说的是段落的`结构和连贯性的问题。英语文章特别喜欢先总后分或开门见山的格局，另外，段落之间和句子之间的形式连接手段特别明显，即关联词用的很多。在写作的时候，几乎就是把给出的三点提纲作为每段的开头句，然后再加上两三个扩展句即理由或例证句就可以了。当然有时候为了论证自然或扩展字数也可以加上一点铺垫的句子。如20xx年6月真题作文开头一句既可以是Some people claim that names are of great importance. 也可以是There is no denying the fact that it is a controversial topic whether names are important or not. 然后再说Some hold the positive view.后面再加上两三句论证的话。论证句或扩展句之间最好有连接词，如First, Second, Besides, Also, Similarly, In the same way, However等等。

语言简练，论据得当(concise)：不要啰嗦，不要过于重复和堆砌。有些考生背诵了一些经典的句型，为了凑字就全用上了，给人低层次的感觉。如最后一段用同学写道：As far as I am concerned, weighing the pros and cons of the arguments, I am inclined to agree with the latter point of view. 其实As far as I am concerned和weighing the pros and cons of the arguments用一个就行了。另外，尽管内容不及语言重要，但也肯定会影响分数的。考生应尽量平时多练，以期在考场上也能很快想到一些有力的理由和贴切的例证。另外，要敢于表达自己的思想，不要一味地为了保证语言正确而裹步不前，只说一些小学生的话。如有同学写09年真题第一段时写道：Some people think that names are important. They say that, if a person has a name, we can remember him. If he does not have a name, we cannot remember him. 这样的作文倒是没有语言错误，但肯定也得不了高分。

(三)检查

其实考生应该在下笔写作的时候就谨慎，仔细，避免错误，但即便这样，错误也是会有的，包括语法和拼写错误，尤其对于平时缺乏练习的同学来说。那么就需要留几分钟通读一下，检查和改正。注意，要改的是一些语法或拼写错误，而不是作内容上的大的改动，换言之，是改一些词或词组，而不是改整个句子或段落，因为那样会造成卷面混乱，导致低分。要想避免内容上的错误，构思时就要想好，落笔时就要谨慎。还有改正错误要注意方式，尽量不要用涂改液或涂改带，以免有作弊嫌疑，也不要在一个词上涂画太多，影响卷面整洁。一般可以用一条斜线划掉错词，然后在其上方写出正确的，或者用胶带或刀片之类轻轻将错词去掉，然后在原位置写出正确的。

冲刺方略

即使到考前剩的时间不多，写作也是大有可为的。要做的事情有两件，一个是背，一个是练。

背主要是背范文，从实战出发，可以背模拟题的范文。背的目的有两个，一是掌握一些常用的经典句型，在考场上应急，另外是学习范文的思路和文章结构，以期为己所用。背不要贪多，一种类型的文章背一篇也就差不多。如果按我课上讲的把作文分为五大类，那差不多背五篇就行。而且实在不能一字不差的背下来也不要太担心，背下大部分就行。其实，与背范文同样重要的是背诵一些自己在阅读里看到的比较有感觉的好词好句，那样可以避免与别人写成一样的。

练也是练模拟题，因为考过的写作真题再考的可能性几乎是没有的。数量大约5到10篇，也就是每种类型一到两篇。练的时候可以用背诵过的模板，但最好还是能用自己的话，不敢肯定的话可以写完之后去查查字典，实在不敢肯定的可以请教别人或使用范文的说法。其实练模拟题主要目的并不是为了押题，而是提高构思和英汉转换的速度，为了培养一批自己比较喜欢的好词好句。

附：20xx年12月六级作文范文

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My View on University Ranking. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.

1. 目前高校排名相当盛行

2. 对这种做法人们看法不一

3. 我认为……

My View on University Ranking

There is no denying the fact that it has become a prevailing trend for some individuals or organizations to rank universities. Taking a look around, we can find examples too many to list. To this phenomenon people’s attitudes differ sharply.

Some hold the positive view. They claim that ranking universities can help high school graduates or their parents to make a sound choice when enrolling in a university or college. Besides, this practice can help promote the level of higher education as a whole in that many universities will exert efforts to elevate their position.

Others, however, hold the opposite view. They point out that the result of ranking is not always credible, for many individuals or institutions do it merely for the purpose of colleting money. Furthermore, some universities overemphasize the result of ranking and waste large amounts of resources.

Personally, I believe that we should not go to extremes. On the one hand, it must be admitted that ranking is an effective means to encourage universities or colleges to compete with each other and improve their work. On the other hand, it should not be conducted and used in the wrong way.

Today I went to a good friend when playing home to see a good friend who has a pet dog, black eyes, a yellow hair, and a good friend in the dog's neck hung a bell, walk along a road to come will be * ting-a-ling-a-ling sound, listen to a good friend said this dog is very greedy not too long, it has to feed it and it is not a pleasure to see food to eat up.

Look, don't mention how cute it is.

Miss Canada Natalie Glebova was crowned Miss Universe 20xx in Bangkok on Tuesday at the climax of a beauty pageant that once again managed to stumble into controversy.

Glebova, a 23-year-old motivational speaker from Toronto, succeeded last year's winner, Australian Jennifer Hawkins, after the usual evening gown and swimsuit parades that pull in TV viewers worldwide but outrage feminists and traditionalists .

Even though hotly tipped for the title, the final announcement appeared to stun Glebova, who moved to Canada from her native Russia only 11 years ago.

"This is all happening too fast and it's unreal. It's slowly starting to sink in," she told reporters moments after being crowned with the glittering, diamond-encrusted Miss Universe tiara.

Dressed in a long white evening dress, she hugged her parents on stage and then praised her new homeland for giving her and her family the chance to start a new life.

"When we came 11 years ago, we came with nothing, and now we've got so much," she said.

In all, 81 beauties from Albania to Zambia made it to Thailand, riding elephants, touring temples and rollicking on tsunami-hit beaches in the run-up to Tuesday's finale.

In the middle of the show, the conference hall fell silent for a minute in memory of the more than 228,000 dead or missing from the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami. Nearly 5,400 of the victims were in Thailand.

Sometimes we think of dreams as fantasies - it's easy to do when you have money， rent， and work。 But you can't prepare yourself and jump off the cliff: you should grow your wings first。 A little bit toward the dream。 Step by step。 Take a step forward。 After all， it's your mission。

有时，我们把梦想看成是幻想——当有钱、有租金、有工作时很容易去做。可是，你也不能不加准备及跳下悬崖：你该先长出自我的翅膀。一点点的朝梦想靠近。一步一步的往前走。往前迈一步吧。毕竟，这是你的使命。

Student Use of Computers

Students tend to use computers more and more nowadays. Reading this chart, we can find that the average number of hours a student spends on the computer per week has increased sharply. In 1990, it was less than 2 hours; and in 1995, it increased to almost 4 hours; while in 20xx, the number soared to 20 hours.

Obviously computers are becoming more and more popular. There are several reasons for this. First, computers facilitate us in more aspects of life. Also, the fast development of the Internet enlarges our demands for using computers. We can easily contact with friends in remote places through the Internet. Besides, the prices of computers are getting lower and lower, which enables more students to purchase them.

Along with the time spent on computers, there arise some problems. The most serious one is that many students are spending so much time playing PC games so that they ignore their studies. It is urgent to let the students use computers in a proper way.