Langston Hughes was a famous black poet (诗人). And he also wrote novels, plays and short {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the US. He {#blank#}2{#/blank#} with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. She told him stories about their family. These stories made Hughes feel proud (自豪的) to be black. He {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to write when he was living with her. During his life time, he wrote a lot about black people. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}his poems, novels and stories, Hughes helped other black people to see themselves as part of a much bigger group of people.

    After his grandmother died in 1915, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to live with {#blank#}5{#/blank#}mother and her new husband. Hughes went to high school there. His first short stories came out (出版) when he was still in high school.

    After finishing high school in 1920, he {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to Mexico City to live with his father. Hughes had a very {#blank#}7{#/blank#} relationship (关系) with his father. His father didn't want him to be a writer. He said that Hughes could go to {#blank#}8{#/blank#}only if he studied engineering (工程学). Hughes agreed. He went to Columbia University in New York City in 1921 but left the university in 1922 because of his colour.

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    When young people in the United States get together for fun, probably they will dance. The ways that boys and girls dance will often change every year. They{#blank#}1{#/blank#}learning the newest dances.

    Years ago, the dances of young people were not very different from those of their parents, but high school and college students of today have{#blank#}2{#/blank#}their own music and dances. They like the new music that people can dance to in different ways.

    In the USA, there are many dances that are loved by young people, but the history of the dances isn't{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, the Twist(摇摆舞), for example. In the late 1950s, Chubby Checker started a dance that he called the "Twist" to make himself slim. The Twist, like many new dances, was very lively, and people who performed it used a lot of{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, After performing his new dance hundreds of times, Chubby was no longer as fat as before. The word "chubby" means "very fat". That was why the singer and dancer called him Chubby.

    Before Halloween, Children in Britain and the USA are always busy making pumpkin lanterns and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} scary costumes(吓人的服饰). What else do they do to celebrate the festival?

    Halloween Online has listed websites giving some {#blank#}2{#/blank#} for making Halloween as fun as possible. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, one of the most fun things you can do is host a Halloween party for your friends and family. There are many great games, music, activities and foods that you can enjoy with your guests.

    Pumpkin Carving(雕刻) 101 tells you the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} of pumpkin carving and teaches you how to make the wonderful lantern.

    Visit the Halloween Toy Shop to see a collection of scary toys and games that are played during the festival.

    And before you go to bed, why not scare yourself by {#blank#}5{#/blank#} some Halloween ghost (鬼) stories? You might want to sleep with the light on after a few pages!

    Stephen Hillenburg, the USD animator who created the famous cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants(海绵宝宝), passed away on November 26. 2018 at the age of 57.

    Growing up in Maine island(美国缅因州), Hillenburg was interested in the ocean as a child and liked art very much. He studied Natural Resource Planning at college and oceans attracted him a lot. "If I have a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to do a show on animals, I would do a show about undersea animals-all the ones that I'm interested in and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} , "Hillenburg said to a reporter from Entertainment Weekly in 2010. "I like the sponge because it's one of the most {#blank#}3{#/blank#} creatures. "