When I was young, I lived in Scotland with my parents. I had a good time there.

    One morning, I ran to the garden, and said to the old Scotsman who worked there. "Today I am going up the mountain for berries."

    "No, no, Missey, not today." he said, "It will rain."

    "No, it will not rain." I said, "The sun is up. The cook says it will be fine. The glass in the hall does not say rain."

    "Tuts, tuts." said the old man, "I care for no suns, or cooks, or glasses. The pimpernel (海绿) says it will rain, and so it will rain. Flowers, Missey, always tell the truth. When they say rain, go and get your umbrella."

    Sure enough, by noon the rain was pouring down. After that, I looked with great respect at the tiny flower, sometimes brickred, sometimes blue, which could tell about the weather. But the pimpernel is not the only plant that is a weather prophet.

    If you go into the garden, and find the African marigolds shut after seven o'clock in the morning, you may be pretty sure that there will be a rainy day. There is a little single marigold which shuts up in a hurry if the sky becomes clouded. It is called the "rainy-marigold".

    Most plants which we call "weather prophets" shut up for rain. But some plants open for rain. The cause of the opening and closing is probably the difference in light. Most likely these plants shut their flowers because there is too little light.

    But you know there are some plants which become smaller in a strong light and love the shade. You will find that most shade-loving plants, as the verbenas, do not close for rain.

    Lilies, tulips and other flowers that love the sun shut for rain. Tulips are careful not to open their cups very wide in the morning if it is likely to rain. The roses make no change. They seem not to fear wet.

    On the whole, you may be pretty sure, if you go into your garden, and find many flowers as tulips, marigolds and morning glories shut, it will be a stormy day, unfit for picnics or long walks.

    My great-grandmother, Ethel, came from England to the United States in 1921. She brought almost nothing with her-just a few clothes and trinkets(小饰物). But she did bring some customs from "the old country" that she had learned as she grew up.

    One custom was that if you dropped a glass or a cup and it broke, you would throw a little salt over your left shoulder. It was funny that she did that-she wasn't superstitious(迷信的) in other ways. I think that she grew up doing that, so she continued to do it as a connection to her childhood.

    Ethel also taught us a New Year's Day custom that our family continues to follow today. To celebrate the new year, we would travel to a friend's house for a quick visit. My great-grandmother always took a pound of butter with her on our visits. We would enter the friend's house through the back door. The butter we brought was to give our friend a "gift of gold" to symbolize hope for prosperity in the new year.

    After my great-grandmother died, we still visited people on the first day of January, but eventually we stopped bringing the butter. We never did throw salt over our shoulders after breaking a glass or a cup. Some customs are continued when they cross from one country to another, but some customs fade away.

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参考词汇：physical and mental health 身心健康

Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in the town, I felt really 1 . So I wanted to have a rest 2 catching the rain. I3 a newspaper and some chocolate and went into the station4 shop. It was a cheap self-service place with long tables to sit at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, put the newspaper and the chocolate on the 5 and then went to get a cup of coffee. 

When I came back with the coffee, there was 6 sitting in the next seat. It was a boy, with dark glasses and old clothes, and colored bright red at the front. To my surprise, he had started to eat my chocolate!

I was quite uneasy(不爽的) about him, but I didn't want to have any trouble. I just read the newspaper, 7 my coffee and took a piece of chocolate. The boy looked at me in 8 . Then he took a second piece of my chocolate. I could hardly believe it. But I still didn't say 9 to him. When he took a 10 piece, I felt more angry than uneasy. I thought, "Well, I shall have the last piece. " And I got it. 

The boy gave me a strange look, then stood up. As he left, he shouted out aloud, "There's something wrong with that woman!" 11 looked at me, but I didn't want to quarrel with the boy, so I kept 12 . I did not realize(意识到) that I had made a mistake until I finished my coffee and planned to 13 . My face turned 14 when I saw my unopened chocolate under the newspaper. The chocolate that I had been eating was15 !