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My Father

My father was born in 1940. He was a son of a teacher. He lived in Sichuan Province when he was young， Later he left for Xinjiang at the age of twenty， and has lived there until now.

Myfather is thin， not tall， and has a serious-looking face. Though hes sometimes bad temered， he is a very good man at heart. He shows deep concern for others and often helps them out of their difficulties. For this reason his colleagues and our neighbours like him very much. They call him a man of Leifeng type.

My father works as an engineer in a machinery plant. He immerses himself in his word all day long， always forgetting to stop for a rest. So he is said to be “a tireless man”. In the plant his main task is designing new machines and improving the old ones. some of the machines he has designed are being exported to foreign countries. The old machines he has improved operte well.

My father is a qualified engineer. I was told that he will be promoted to be a chief engineer soon. I love my father. I wish him good luck.

（二）

My parents

My father is a doctor and my mother is a nurse， I am their only daughter. Father and Mother work in the same hospital. Father is tall and handsome. As a doctor， he is careful and skillful. His patients trust him， and the nurses， including my mother， are afraid of him， for he is very strict in his work. Mother is a pretty woman. She is proud of Father and ready to follow his orders at any time.

But at home， Father is ready to follow Mothers orders at any time. Mother will tell him to do this or that and heobeys willingly. Both of them are afraid of me and are ready to grant all my wishes， because they love me so affectionately that they wish me to feel happy at any moment. Nevertheless， I am a good girl at home and a goodstudent at college. And I never feel unhappy since Ihave such good parents.

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My family

I come from a big family. There are six persons in my family.Besides my parents， I have an elder brother， an elder sister， and a younger brother.

My father is a worker who works in a machine tool plant. He has been working there since Liberation. My mother is a typical chinese housewife. She takes care of the whole house hold. My elder brother is an engineer in a chemical research institute in Beijing. My elder sister is a junior middle school music teacher in Shanghai， and my younger brother is now studying in a senior high school in my hometown.

We love our parents and they love us， and the brothers and sisters always encourage and help each other. We are a happy family.

（四）

On computers

Dear Editor， Im writing to tell you how us use computers in our daily lives. Most of us use computers to search for more information about the interesting problems on the textbooks， about Iraqi wars and about Oscar. Some of us use computers to do some drawings， to make up interesting flashes. And some of us use them to play games. If we are tired and want to take a short rest， playing games for a while is OK. But its forbidden that we spend hours and hours on the games. There is also someone using computers to talk with people in the Internet and even falling in love with him or her. The Internet is not a real world and we cant tell lies from truths. So falling in love with somebody on the Internet is not safe and is bad for our study. We should keep ourselves out of it. Thats all I know. Good luck！Yours truly， Li Hua

（五）

Buildings in Tianjin

In Tianjin， there are many buildings of bygone times. Some of them are imposing and have great artistic and historic value. However， these buildings do mot fit in well with each other， because most of them were built by foreigners in different times. The traffic in the city is not very convenient. The street are usually narrow and twisted. If the government wanted to have them widened， a large number of buildings would have to be pulled down. Some buildings are too old and are nothing more than cottages， and in place of them， some new high buildings have been set up. However， the new ones are still few and in many places they seem quite out of place.

Yet those Western-style buildings give Tianjin a different characteristic from other cities and those new ones lend the city fresh vitality which will spread rapidly with the reform going on.