The Season I Like Best

四川成都树德实验中学初三 班文娟

If someone asks me which season I like best, it's a hard ques-tion for me to answer. Because there are four seasons in a year. We can go for an outing in spring. In summer, we can go swim-ming. After summer, we can have a good harvest. We can go skating in winter. Anyhow I like spring best.

Spring is the most beautiful season in a year. The weather gets warmer, and the days get longer. Everything begins to grow. Trees turn green. At the beginning, they are light green. Each leaf seems to be cleaned by spring wind. Many kinds of flowers start to come out. They are colorful, red, yellow, orange and white. They give the earth a pretty coat. The fields and meadows are covered with fresh green grass. Rivers pass through the coun-tries and the cities quietly. Look! The swallows are coming back again. They are flying to the south in spring, because the weather is warmer in the south. At the same time, bears wake up from their long winter sleep. Cats begin mewing. Dogs begin barking. The forests are filled with the songs of birds. All the sounds on the earth are like music. Later, most of the animals will get mar-ried and have babies. New lives tell us that: this year is better than ever before.

I like spring very much because I can enjoy spring festival. In China, People celebrate spring's coming by spending spring festi-val. It is the most important festival in China. It isn't the same date each year. Usually, it comes between January and February. On that day, people clean and tidy their rooms. Because they think cleaning can make them forget all the unhappy things in the last year. In the shop, many people are busy looking for food and presents. In the evening, people have a big family get-together at home. Children wear new clothes. They get some money from their Daddy, uncles and aunts. They are the happiest. In North China, people often make dumplings before the Eve. Money looked like the dumplings in ancient time. Dumplings mean rich, so they like eating them. In South China, after tasting delicious food, people usually go to a flower market or watch CCTV pro-grammes. The programme is wonderful. At twelve o'clock, every-one welcomes the new year's coming. That's a peaceful night.

Now spring festival is coming again. Spring is coming, too. "Well begun is half done". I hope all of us can have a nice beginning in 1999.

点评:

Ban Wenjuan likes English very much. She often goes to the "English Corner "to practise her spoken English and she has made rapid progress. Through taking part in the" National Students Spoken English Competition", she realized that there was a long way to go before she could learn English really well.

指导教师：郑晓兰