⑴    This festival is celebrated to remember the poet Qu Yuan who brought peace and wealth to the state but ended up drowning(淹死) himself river. People got to the river by boat and threw rice dumplings into the water, hoping that the fishes ate the rice dumplings instead of Qu Yuan's body. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by rice dumplings and dragon boat races.

⑵This festival is the most important festival in China. It starts on the first day of the first month according to the Chinese lunar calendar. On New Year's Eve, each family sits together eating, talking and watching TV for almost the whole night. The children can get presents from their parents or grandparents.

⑶It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is a time for family members and loved ones to get together to eat mooncakes and enjoy the full moon. It is also a harvest(收获) festival. Most families have a dinner together to celebrate the festival

⑷The festival usually happens on the fourth of April every year. It is a time to remember the dead. More importantly, it is a period to honor and to show respect to our ancestors and dead family members. Besides, it is a time of many different activities, among which the main ones are tomb sweeping, taking a spring outing and flying kites.

⑸It falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar mouth. It is an important part of the Spring Festival, and marks the official end of the long holiday. At the festival, people have many activities such as eating yuanxiao, guessing lantern riddles, watching fireworks and lanterns, and others.

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    Rock climbing is a popular hobby that many people enjoy doing. You can do it indoors on special walls or outdoors on real mountains. There are many advantages of rock climbing—it is fun and it also helps people forget worries.

    The most important equipment(设备)to have is good shoes .They need to be half a size smaller than your usual size. The next thing you need is a harness(保护带)．This allows you to move freely, but will hold you up if you fall .It's important to know how to use your equipment .If you are a beginner, it's best to have lessons. A climber with experience can help you a lot in the beginning.

    Rock climbing is very exciting for people of different ages. Climbers, however, must be careful not to pollute the environment .Sometimes rock climbers leave rubbish on the mountains where they climb. They should take it with them and throw it away. This will allow future climbers to enjoy a clean environment.

    A bottle of water may not seem much to you, but thousands of bottles will be of great help for people who live in drought-hit areas in China.

    Since last autumn, there has been very little rain in Southwest China. Some places, especially in Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou, have experienced a serious drought. Crops died, the land cracked(裂开) and wells and rivers died up. More than 20 million people are having difficulty finding safe drinking water.

    After learning about the drought, many people around the country helped by giving water, money and other things.

    The serious drought has also made students realize the importance of saving water. Students from Nanshan Middle School in Huizhou, Guangdong, went on to the street to tell people to take part in water-saving activities.

    "I've heard that some children in drought-hit areas don't have enough drinking water. I feel really sad about that," said one student. "I decided to take a shower twice a week instead of every day to save water." He said.

    Some people from the country think that city life is the most interesting. They come to visit friends or go to a hotel in the city. They may stay for a few days or as long as a week.

    Some visitors think that foreign restaurants are the best part of city life. Others have the nicest time in museums. But many people think that movies or concerts are the most important attractions of the city. And most visitors like to go shopping for clothes or presents.

    In the city there are also many parks, different types of people, tall buildings, and other interesting things to see. Cities have the busiest streets and city life seems very busy, too.

    After a few days in the city, the visitors begin to think about the country. They remember the trees and flowers. Suddenly they do not want to be near the tallest buildings or the busiest streets. Now they want to return home in the country.

One afternoon, Mrs. Stone decided to visit her friend Mrs. King. Mrs. King lived in a nice house with a large garden far from the city center. Mrs. Stone took her dog with her. While the women were having coffee outside the house, the dog was running around in the garden. The two friends were very unpleasantly surprised when the dog appeared after some time with a dead rabbit in his mouth. Mrs. King began to feel sick because she knew that her neighbor kept rabbits in a hutch（笼子） in his garden. As the dog and the rabbit were both covered with earth and dirt, the women took the rabbit and carefully cleaned it in the bathroom. When it got dark, they went quietly through the trees into the neighbor's garden and put the dead rabbit into the hutch.

The next afternoon Mrs. King's neighbor, the one with the rabbit, found her in the garden, called her over. She walked towards the neighbor and she felt very afraid because she knew that she did something wrong. "You know what?" her neighbor said. "Yesterday morning I found one of my rabbits dead in the hutch. So I put it in the ground in the garden and this morning," he started to whisper, "it's back to the hutch! I'm going to take it to a right pet cemetery."

Everybody knows that Edison is a famous scientist.But few people have 1 his kindness and tolerance(宽容)towards others.The following is a story about him.

After hundreds of experiments,Edison had at last 2 a working bulb(电 灯泡).It was the first electric light bulb that had ever been made,and Edison was full of 3 .He had dreamed of this moment for years."Take it upstairs,Jimmy,"he said, handing it to his helper. 4 ,there was a crash(巨响).Edison turned around and saw that his bulb had fallen to the ground and broken into pieces.Jimmy had let the bulb slip(滑落)through his 5 carelessly.

Edison said nothing,but everyone could imagine what his thoughts were.He went back to his work table and set to work once more to make another bulb.

A few days later,a new bulb was finally ready.It was 6 on the table in front of its maker.Then Edison,with a smile,handed the new bulb to Jimmy."Be 7 this time,"he said.He was giving the young man another 8 .Jimmy did not break it,so we have millions of bulbs in the world today.

As a saying goes,"Not the power to 9 ,but it's very opposite,the power to forget,is a necessary condition for our existence(存在)."Life is too short and no one is 10 .If we can forgive others,we will,have a better life.