The Silk Road The world-famous Silk Road is a series of route which connect the East and the West. It extends to more than 6000 kilometers, being named after the silk trade in ancient China. The Silk Road plays an important role on the development of trade civilization in China, the South Aisa, Europe and the Middle East. It was thought the Silk Road that the four great invention in China--papermaking, gunpowder, compass and painting,has been introduced to all over the world. Simplely, the Chinese silk, tea and porcelain has also been spreaded the world. The exchange of material culture is biolatered. Europe, in return, has exported various commodities and plants thought it, meeting the need of Chinese market.

Making your life more meaningful A saying goes:"the greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." It is advisable that we should like to spend our life more meaningful and not to waste it. There is no example better than learning. Knowledge is infinite and our life is finite, but we can use our finite life to learn it. Neverthless making best use of our life and practising the knowledge what we learn before make it more useful. Reunion is the other example what l think it is meaningful. lt is fun that l do some sports ,have dinner or present the wedding together with my friends and family members. lf l see some photo or run across a condition like before, l will recall and feel nice. After all, making my life more meaningful is easy only to know what to do,why to do and how to do right now.

this winter holiday This holiday is a longest winter holiday for the college student in China about 50 days. For the begining, i feel boring at home. Watch TV, playing game all day. l think l can't waste time. Then i had a study plan——reciting English words, reading accountant texts and learning Korean langage by myself, but l insisted on it for 2 weeks. l give up in the half way... Feb19th is a new year in China. Mother and I visited relatives and had some reunion dinner and i stayed my cousin home for two days. We play badminton and mahjong. It's so interesting! Recently i have a new hobby——cooking and baking. l made steamed stuffed buns with meat or vegetable stuffing, made apple pies, made hot dogs and baked meat and fish. It's delicious.

The after-school tutorials In this picture, I can witness that a mother takes her son to have an after-school tutorial in a community, but a large number of tutorials can be chosen. She has no idea which suit her son. With the boom of education, parents don't wish their children leave behind. In other word, parents hope their children better than others, enter in a famous university and have a good position in the future. Therefore, the after-school tutorials are creasing. The children feel tired and have a huge stress, due to their parents' thought. Their childhood is not happiness because of the tutorials. Is the tutorial really useful? Undoubtedly, it is useful to some hard-work children. I think that those who never listen to their teachers in their school have no much improvement. If the children want to improve themselves, their parents can let them have the after-school tutorials.

E-mail and Paper letter With the rapid development of science and technology, people send a letter in various ways, such as E-mail, paper letter and so forth. Sending the E-mail is convenient and fast. If only we type on the computer and click a send botten.The letter will be send out immediately and it will be received within one or two reconds. Nowadays we also send the E-mail on the smartphone. Writing the paper letter is meaningful and memorable. We can pratise writing a good hand. We often receive the paper letter happier than receive the E-mail, because we feel happy, angry, sad and joyful from the words.We can also keep the paper letter for a long time. We will think of yesterday when we read it next time. In my opinion, l prefer sending the E-mail to writing the paper letter. I have not enough time to wait a paper letter. It's too slow. In the city, l can't waste my time for it.

How to learn English? In spite of I has been learning English for 15 years, I am not good at it. Sometimes I can write it, but l can't speak it. I work hard for my English which is a difficult language in my opinion, yet, it improve awfully slow. What's the matter with me? A hundred new words that l repeat every day, however l forget them quickly. l often change upon a new word which l has seen, unfortunately l slip from my memory. l listen to a short English article every day, neverthless l am poor at English comprehension. l admire my friend who can talk with foreigners and go abroad. In a face of a series of my methods of English learning, l turn out that it is not fit for me.

Parental Hopes and Personal Desires It is important that we obligate to our parents.They bring up us, give us a good environment to live and teach us some knowledge which we can't learn in the book. It is the parents that are the first teachers for their children. Sometimes, there are much distress for their parents, people thought. They can't do what they want to, owing to their parents dislike it or think that it is not good for them. However, people's minds are free and vast, they don't like to listen to their parents all the time. They feel worse and have much distress. How to do it? We'd better find a way which can make ourselves happy while pleasing our parents at the same time. I recommendate that we tell what to do to our parents, whether they agree or not.If they agree on us, we aren't worry to do it. If not, we should discuss to them and tell them the reason. I think that mostly parents can understand their children.