When the Spring Festival falls' red flowers bloom on the window of my home. Of course' these are not1flowers. But in the cold of2 these wonderful flowers bring warmth to us they are made of paper by my3 who is now aged 70. With a few cuts' she4a piece of paper into a beautiful work of art.
When my grandma was young she was considered stupid in the 5. But on a cold winter night' she saw some beautiful red paper6on her new neighbor's windows. She was so interested in it and decided to7from her neighbor. Tons of paper was wasted' and her finger was cut many times. But she8 practicing. It took 10 years9my grandma could make a paper art skillful（娴熟的）. The red flowers' blooming like burning fire' light up her world. Now' everyone in the village 10 her. My grandma's story has shown me what it takes to realize one's dream.
E-book is short for electronic（电子的）book. It is usually read on personal computers or mobile phones or e-book readers.
Earlier, only some groups of readers would read e-books. And the subjects of e-books were not too many. With the development of the Internet, people find more knowledge in e-books. This is why e-book business is developing quickly.
E-books have many advantages（优点）. First, they save time. We don't need to go to a bookstore to buy paper books. Besides, we can find the topic we want to know on the Internet. And then we can quickly get many e-books on similar topics. Second, e-books save money. Some e-books cost a little money, and there are millions of e-books on the Internet. And we can read them for free. Third, because e-books are not made of paper, people don't need to cut down so many trees anymore. It's good for the environment. Fourth, e-books make reading more convenient. You can carry hundreds of books with you in a small computer or any e-book reader. But that's also e-book's disadvantage（缺点）. They need a personal computer or e-book reader. And the information of e-books can be lost. However, e-books provide us with a new way of reading. That's good.
One day I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying "You don't say!" I was puzzled, and I thought, perhaps this is not alright thing to talk about. So I said to him, "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?"
"Certainly! Everyone at home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful!" "Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it. "As I went on more about it, he stopped me again, "You don't say!"
I couldn't help asking," Why do you ask me not to talk about it?"
"Well, I don't ask you to do so." He answered, greatly surprised.
"Didn't you say' You don't say?'" I asked again.
Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain," "You don't say!" means 'Really?'" Perhaps you know little about English idioms."
Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I began to learn more English idioms.
A smile will let people around you think you are a kind and friendly person. However, many people don't smile because they think they have ugly teeth. For example, one of my classmates, Mike, doesn't have nice teeth, so that is why he seldom opens his mouth. He even says that he has lost confidence because of his teeth. So it is very important for us to look after our teeth. In fact, a lot of people have this problem. Some people get teeth problems from their parents, while other's teeth are bad because of bad habits, like heavy smoking, eating too much sugar or not brushing teeth often. If your teeth are in bad shape, you should see a dentist and ask for help. They can help improve your teeth and tell you how to take care of them.
Smiling can help you to feel more confident and make other people think of you a more friendly person. If you want to keep healthy, you should not only smile but laugh. An Indian doctor called Kaiaria said that young children should laugh about 300 times a day, while adults should laugh between 7 and 15 times a day. So please take this chance to smile and laugh now!
Can money buy happiness？Different people have different answers. Some people think that money is the source（源泉）of happiness. With money, one can buy whatever he enjoys. With money, one can do whatever he likes. In their minds, money can bring comfort, security, and so on. Money, as they think, is the source of happiness.
But there are still a lot of others who think that money is the root of all evil. Money drives to steal, to rob, and to break the law. A lot of people do bad things just because they were in search of money. And in the Western countries, there is nothing that can't be bought by money. Many people lose their own lives when hunting it.
I think that money is the essential to life and we can't do many things without money. But even though money is necessary to life, it can't buy happiness. Happiness is not something that can be measured by money. It is a state of mind. One can have plenty of money, with which he can buy whatever he wants, and at the same time he is not happy because he is never satisfied or he is troubled by various kinds of problems. Therefore, although money is necessary for a happy life, it can't buy happiness.
London used to be 'foggy' for the same reason that cities like Beijing or Chongqing are 'foggy' today. The 'fog' was in fact smog, a mixture（混合物）of smoke and fog. In other words, it was made by air pollution. In London, some of this pollution came from factories, but much of it came from the coal（煤）that people burnt in their houses to keep warm during the winter. By the 1950s, London's smog problem had become so bad that the government decided to do something to clean the air. A new law was made and nobody could burn coal in any British city. Within a few years, the air became much cleaner. There were no more 'peasoupers'.
Many Chinese cities now face the same sort of problem with air pollution that London faced 40 or 50 years ago. However, this problem is more difficult for Chinese cities to solve. One reason is that more of the pollution comes from the factories, rather than from coal burnt in people's houses. If these factories were closed, this would harm the economy and lots of people would lose their jobs. Another reason is that changing from coal to cleaner fuel（燃料）, like gas, is quite expensive.
However, the air in many Chinese cities is becoming cleaner and cleaner, as the government and people pay more and more attention to cutting down pollution. As a result, there are fewer 'pea-soupers' in Beijing than there used to be.
Looking back over 2018 it might be better not to speak of" ups and downs（起起伏伏）", but of" downs and downs". The year seems to have been one piece of bad news after another. It had terrible disasters-two were Typhoon Mangkhut（山竹）, which brought widespread damage to several countries this summer, and the wildfire in California, which took at least 85 lives.
In 2018 we also lost some of the top minds of humanity, including UK physicist Stephen Hawking, Chinese kung fu fiction writer Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known as Jin Yong, and Stan Lee, the US comic（漫画）book writer who created the Marvel universe.
This is why it comes as a warm surprise that, according to Google's" Year In Search 2018", people spent a lot of time searching for the "good" on the Internet. According to the video, which was released on Dec 12, people wanted to find answers to questions like "how to be a good friend".
In the video, we see the moment when a deaf child hears his mother's voice for the very first time. We see video of the Thailand boy soccer players after they were saved from a flooded cave with the help of volunteers from all over the world.
"We seem to miss all the good in the world, "wrote reporter Raka Mukherjee." The video shows us how, even in times of adversity, there is good-if only one makes the effort to look for it." So, it may be true that the past year was full of "down" moments. But it doesn't mean that we're letting it bring us down with it. As is said in the video, "The world is filled with people trying to do the best they can."
I often hear some students say English is difficult, and it gives them a headache.
English is easy for me. I'm very good at it. Now I'm glad to tell you something about how I learn English. First, I think an interest in English is very(importance). When I learnt English at first, it was fresh for me. I was interested in it, so I worked hard at it. Soon we had English exam and I got a good mark. How happy I was! After that, I learnt English harder than before. Our English teacher often(teach)us to sing English songs. I think English is really interesting. Second, English is a foreign language for me, so I try to learn it in the following ways：listen to the teacher(careful), speak bravely, read aloud and develop vocabulary. Then I need(practise)it again and again, I have a habit of(learn)English-ask questions whenever I have one. How happy I am when I know the answer! Third, I often read English(story), jokes and easy novels. They help me understand English better. Reading is an important way to learn English well. Besides, I keep a diary English every day.
English has now become a close friend of(I). I hope every student can learn it well.
