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    The film Alice Through the Looking Glass is on. Millions of people go to cinemas to see it. The little girl Alice, with long hair of gold, is alive in people's mind again after the film Alice in  Wonderland was shown in 2010.

    These two popular films were adapted from the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking﹣Glass Both of them were written by Lewis Carroll, a famous English writer, who himself was as interesting as his books.

    Lewis Carroll was a math teacher and talented writer. In 1856, he met Henry Liddell and his three lovely daughters. His friendship with the family became an important part of his life over the following years. He liked the girls very much, especially the youngest one, Alice Liddell. He often told stories to make them happy. One day he took the girls to a boat trip. To make the time more enjoyable, he began a story about the adventure of a little girl named Alice in Wonderland. Many other strange characters such as the Mouse, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts were brought to this wonderful world too.

    Alice Liddell loved the story and she begged Carroll to write it down for her. After Carroll finished the manuscript of the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, he gave it to the girl as a Christmas present. When the book was published shod in 1865. It was an immediate success, and soon was famous around the world.

    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.

    Cricket is Australia's most popular summer sport. It is so popular that many people say summer does not start until Australia plays their first cricket game of the season.

    It's known as the" Summer of Cricket". Most Australians will watch games on TV, listen to the news on the radio or play cricket games themselves.

    Many even go to the stadium and watch games. They dress in green and gold and paint their faces to support their teams. Two teams of 11 people play against each other. They take turns at hitting a leather(皮制的)ball with a wooden bat(棒),The batsmen hit the ball to score runs. The team that scores the most runs wins.

    Some of Australia's famous people are cricket players. The sport is very popular in other countries like the UK, India, South Africa and Sri Lanka. There are more and more cricket competitions starting in China. China has a men's and women's cricket team that is gradually getting better.

    Men, women, boys and girls watch cricket. Traditionally it is a sport for men, but recently women's cricket has become more popular and there are now professional(职业的) female cricketers, too.

    "The first day of the summer of cricket is one of the best days of the year," cricket player and fan Sean Prior said. "When I'm at work I always have the radio on listening to the game. Cricket is a big part of my lire.

    If you are traveling to Australia, watch the cricket! It's just not summer without it.

    When you hear people talk about Washington D. C.，you may want to know what the letters“D. C.”mean. They mean“District of Columbia(哥伦比亚区)”. Washington D. C. is the capital of the U. S. It's in the District of Columbia，not in the state of Washington. Washington state is on the northwest coast，far from the capital city.

    Washington D. C. is about 220 miles south of New York City. Americans named the capital city after George Washington to remember the famous president. George Washington's home is not far from the city. His home was a simple white country house and it is kept as it was when he lived there. Every year a lot of Americans from all parts of the country take their children to this famous house where“the father of America” once lived.

    In the eyes of many foreigners, Chinese are the best hosts and the worst guests in the world. They're not really bad guests, but because the guest­host relationship in China is much different than in some Western countries, it appears they are not nice guests. And Western hosts sometimes look rude in the eyes of Chinese guests.

In China, guests are almost like gods. Whenever I enter a Chinese person's home, there is always fruit on the table for me, and someone is quick to bring me a cup of tea or water. In the West, generally the guest is not a god. Acting according to the host's way of doing things is usual behavior for a guest.

    My wife's mother, a very kind elderly Chinese lady, doesn't smoke. When I see some of her guests smoking in her house, as a non­smoker, I feel unhappy. Usually I want to stop them directly, but I must realize that in China, to be a good host, she must not do that. In most North American homes, if you are a guest, and the hosts are not smokers, you should not smoke in their house. At the very least, you could ask, "Is it OK if I smoke?" But, don't be surprised if they say, "No, you can't smoke." In our culture, if you smoke in their home, you are a bad guest, but if they do not allow you to smoke in their house, they are not a rude host.

    Guests in China also have special habits. Some Western people may not adapt to these habits very soon. Thankfully my wife is Chinese, so whenever we visit a Chinese family she tells me to buy them a gift. However, giving a gift to a host is not always necessary in my country. So, if you invite international guests to your house, don't be too surprised if they don't bring you a gift.

    In China, you probably won't need to change the guest­host relationship very much because you will probably only be the host, and Chinese are naturally very good hosts. If Western hosts invite you to their house, try not to be too surprised if their style of treating you is not what you have expected.