Do you love a tomato fight? Come to Spain(西班牙) and enjoy its famous tomato festival, La Tomatina(西红柿大战).The Spanish love to eat tomatoes. Tomato sauce is served on the side with fried eggs, chicken, meat and omeletsat most Spanish dinner tables.

    There was a parade(游行) and festival in Bunol on the last Wednesday of August of 1945 when a fight broke out between some young men. With the help of a nearby fruit and vegetable store, they threw tomatoes at each other. The following year the young people brought tomatoes with them to the parade and started a tomato fight again. Each year the fight went on until the early 1950s. In fact, since 1980 the city government has served the tomatoes!

    Today La Tomatina is celebrated on the last Wednesday in August in the small town of Bunol in the east of Spain. The festival starts at 11:00 a.m. with the sound of rocket being fired and ends one hour later. Last year 40,000 people took part in throwing over 100 tons of tomatoes in the streets and this year even more are expected.

    During tomato fight, you must not bring bottles or other type of things that could make an accident. You must not tear(撕扯) or throw T-shirts. The tomatoes must be broken before throwing them, to stop from hurting people. You must be careful of any traffic. When you hear the second sound, you must stop throwing tomatoes.

    When the fight is over, everyone then sets off to the river to clean up. Sounds like fun.

    A village in Thailand has a very special holiday. Each year, on the last weekend of November, the people have a big dinner for the monkeys in their village. The monkeys of this village live together with people. But they are always a problem because they like to take away food from people. So the villagers decided to have a very special big dinner for the monkeys. The big dinner has bananas, apples and other delicious fruits and vegetables. In all, the people give more than 2,000 kilograms of food to about 1,000 monkeys living in the village.

    The monkey festival started in 1989. It is good for the village because every year thousands of visitors from all over the world come to see the monkeys playing and eating. There are also music and dances with young people dressed like monkeys. You can see monkeys anywhere you go. But you may be scared-they may climb on you at any time and the away the food or things in your hands.

    The festival is also a way for people to thank the monkeys for the money they bring to the village.

    What is a typical day like for a high school student in the United States? Well, everyone's is very different. I can describe my normal day in high school for you,

    Our school day usually went from 8:30 am to 5: 30 pm. However

some days I had cheerleading(啦啦队) practice or play practice at 6:30 am. If I had cheerleading practice, I got ready at school, and if I had time, I ate breakfast at the school dining hall.

    Then I would go towards my locker and get my books for the first period. Each class went for about 50 minutes and we had 4 minutes to get to the next class. We studied everything from science to maths and Spanish to PE.

    I played the flute(长笛) in band, so one of my class periods was used for that. Lunchtime would be at 12:30 pm and then we had some time to hang out outside or by our lockers. At the end of the day there was a seminar(研讨会) period. It could be used for studying or meetings.

    After school, I would cheer at a basketball game, be a lifeguard(救生员) at work or has speech practice. My family always tried to have dinner together at 7 pm, but there wasn't always time. I would finally start studying at 8 or 9 pm.

    So there you have it! That's my typical day in high school.

    When you're closing your eyes and hitting your pillow, you're probably not giving much thought about the sleeping position throughout the night. Most people don't change their sleeping positions throughout their lives. The following is why you might want to pay more attention: Your sleeping position can actually say a bit about who you are and what your personality is like.

    There are many sleeping positions. The fetal (胎儿的) sleeping position is generally the most common sleeping position. Fetal sleepers sleep on their side, they move into a position in which their body makes a rounded shape. People who sleep in the fetal position are often quite sensitive and generally shy. They are often worried or nervous and don't focus their attention on the main problem, but get into trouble on very small pieces of information.

    The log (木头) sleeper rests on the side with a straight body when hands and legs are kept at the sides. These sleepers are often relaxed, but also can easily believe lie-tellers. If you're a log sleeper, you might want to keep in mind that it's good to be easy-going and have less stress, but don't be so quick to go with the flow (流) at all times.

    The third one is the soldier position. Soldier sleepers typically lie on their backs with both arms close to their sides. In general, they are the strong and silent type. However, they can also put the pressure on. "They can be quite strict with themselves as well as others," a scientist added.

Imagine （想象） walking into a movie theater without being greeted by the smell of popcorn. It's hard to believe, isn't it? For many people, popcorn goes hand in hand with movies. They can't have one without the other. But 1  did this happen?

The 2  between the two is younger than you may think. In the mid-1800s, popcorn was already a popular snack in America. Vendors sold it on the 3  . People, especially kids, loved this street food. In the early 1900s, vendors started to sell popcorn 4  movie theaters.

However, theater owners didn't like popcorn. They believed it would make the experience of watching a movie 5  enjoyable. Eating it would make too much noise during the silent movies.

Later, when movies added sound, the 6  noise problem went away. More and more people went to the movies. Some of them even secretly（秘密地） took popcorn into the theaters. Later, more movie theaters 7  . Some of them agreed people to eat popcorn while they were watching movies.

In the 1930s, the theater owners found that people didn't need to buy popcorn from street vendors. Because popcorn was 8  to make, they could make and sell it themselves. They did that and the smell of popcorn drew more people to their theaters. The 9  made a lot of money, and people enjoyed themselves at the movies.

Today, popcorn is still an important part of the movie-going experience. Roles, a man who once ate three bags of popcorn, said, "People come to theaters sometimes just for the 10 . They don't even care what is playing!"