Anyone who has ever been to school would have seen many blackboards big and small on which characters in different colors of chalk are written. The blackboard is a kind of cultural tool. It is usually made of wooden boards four to five cenlimeters thick in the shape of a rectangle. It is painted black on the surface with black paint. Underneath there is a groove for dust.
任何到过学校的人，总见过许多大大小小的，上面写着各种颜色粉笔字的黑板。黑板是一种常见的文化工具，它一般呈矩形，用本质夹板做成，厚四五厘米。它的正面涂上黑漆，下面还有一条积灰槽。
With the development of the educationaI cause, there has been an increasing development in cultural facilities and equipment. The varicty of blackboards is on the rise. There are glass-made blackboards, velvet blackboards made on the basis of the function of statics, magnetic black-boards made according to the function of magnetics, etc.
教育事业的发展，促进了文化用品的发展。黑板的品种不断增多，有玻璃黑板，有根据静电作用造出的绒布黑板，有根据磁性作用造成的磁性黑板……
The blackboard is so common and unattractive in our life, yet it has played an important role in our study, Our teachers have written equation after equation and solved countless problems on it. It is such a common rectangular blackboard, but it is the golden key to the door of the treasure house of knowledge.
黑板在生活中是司空见惯的，然而却在我们的学习中起着重要作用。老师在黑板上写下一个又一个的方程，解决了无数难题。就这样一个普通的长方形黑板，可却是通往知识宝库的金钥匙。
There is always a brilliant image living in my heart. That is my dear father. Seen through the eyes of many other people, father seems to be a very ordinary person. But he is quite extraordinary in my eyes, I have never lost my wonder at his good-personalities such as diligence, devotion, care, optimism ever since my childhood.
Being a farmer, father works very hard in the fields all the year round. He works from dawn till dusk every day and even till midnight when it is the harvest season. He seldom enjoys leisure with other farmers even if the farm work is not much. He chooses to live a busy life with reluctance to stop for a while.
Father devotes all himself to our family. As we are poor, he always tries his best to support our family and afford the tuitions for my brother and me. For the whole family, for brother and me, he never stops working laboriously in the fields throughout the year. Now he has got a wrinkled face and white hair because of excessive hard work, looking much older and weaker than any other person of his age. In spite of all this, father never complains to us. It is his full devotion that were living a better life now. It is his full devotion that both my brother and I are able to study at college.
Father shows much care to us children and my mother as well. Whenever there is any delicious food on the table, he just leaves it to us while he takes the simple one himself. If my brother and I fall ill, he will not hesitate a moment to get some medicine for us or take us to see the doctor. My mother suffers a bad disease. Father looks after her very carefully. He never lets mother do any heavy work both at home and in the field. Mother appreciates him m much that she often praises him as a model husband before others.
Father is a person full of optimism. He never complains about our poor life. He is never frustrated by trouble. He often tells us that everything will be all right if we have enough confidence in life. Due to his optimism, we are all confident to face our life and work.
We all think that father is not in the least an ordinary man. He plays an extraordinary role in my family. We cant have anything without him. Now Im pursuing further studies at college far away from father. I miss him very much. And I often see him in my dreams. His great image is deeply carved in my mind.
