The Dragon Boat Festival

Do you know the Dragon Boat Festival? It's on May the fifth . It's a traditional festival in China.And the Dragon Boat festival is in memory of a Chinese poet, Qu Yuan.

     People in China usually have a big meal with family on the Dragon Boat Festival. And they usually eat rice dumplings. Rice dumpling is also called Zongzi. It is a kind of rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. In the past, people threw rice dumplings into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body.

    Dragon boat racing is the most exciting activity during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children all enjoy watching the Dragon boat racing very much. A dragon boat looks like a dragon, and is painted in red, white , yellow or black. A dragon boat is 20 to 40 meters long, and need twenty people to row.

    The Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting.

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Three turtles

    Three turtles live in a house. They decide to have a cup of coffee. So they go to a care. Just as they go into the care, it starts to rain. They have no umbrella with them. So the biggest one says to the smallest one,   "Go home and get the umbrella."

    The little turtle answers, "I will, if you don't drink my coffee when I go to get the umbrella." "We don't." The other two promise. Two hours later, the big turtle says to the middle turtle, "Well, I guess he isn't coming back, so we can drink his coffee." Just then, there is a voice. "If you do, I will not go to get the umbrella."

    We have two bedrooms, one living room, a study, a kitchen and a bathroom. A big bed is in my bedroom. We have three sofas and a TV. They are in the living room. Where is my desk? It's in the study. I like my home.

    The students of Class One are at a flower show in People's Park. There are many nice flowers there. Some are red and white, and some are blue and yellow. Li Hong is going to buy some nice flowers. She is going to buy some small flowers and plant them beside her house. Some of the small flowers are very expensive and some are cheap. At last she gets some red roses. She likes red a lot and she is very happy.

    The weather report says it's rainy in Hangzhou. It's cold in Harbin. It's snowy in Beijing. It's sunny in Changsha. It's cool in Chongqing. It's cloudy in Wuhan.

Americans think much about time. From children they learn to value (珍惜) time. As children they are taught to be on time to go to school, to work and to do everything. When they are having a good time, they say that time flies. When a person is dying (垂死的), they say he is living on borrowed time.

Time is money. Time is knowledge (知识). Time is everything in America. A working American has to work hard for eight hours a day or forty hours a week. This is the working time. In his spare (空闲的) time, he also works hard for more money. Even on Saturday or Sunday he also works hard as usual. In the street you can not see that a man walks slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running. They love time because time can bring them money and a lot of things. But sometimes they also hate time, because they feel that they have become servants (仆人) of the clock.