① {#blank#}1{#/blank#} It's on the fourth Thursday of November. And it is also a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have.

    ② {#blank#}2{#/blank#} It is on the first Sunday after the full moon which falls on or after March 21st. It is said that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to life. But now for most people, it is a spring holiday, while for children, it means, more than anything else, Easter eggs or chocolate eggs!

    ③ {#blank#}3{#/blank#} It's also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. It is one of the most important Chinese festivals with a history of more than 2,000years. It was originally designed in memory of ancient poet called Qu Yuan.

    ④ {#blank#}4{#/blank#} It is a very important Chinese festival. There will be a big family dinner. People who work far away from home will try to come back. At night, people can enjoy the moon while eating moon cakes. They are the special food for this festival.

    ⑤ {#blank#}5{#/blank#} It falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar in China. The aim is to promote respect for the elderly. According to centuries-old customs, people climb mountains to admire the view.

A. The Double Ninth Festival    

B. The Mid-autumn Festival C. Easter Day     

D. The Dragon Boat Festival   

E. Thanksgiving Day

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Don't go straight to bed after studying in the evening. Do something else, such as walking or getting exercise. Choose something that will relax you, and make you think of other things.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} When I am going to choose where to go, I feel very difficult, although there are too many wonderful places for choosing. My children are too young. I usually leave my children with my parents, but they complain all the time for they would like to go with us.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} My child always goes online even during dinner time. 1 know he is playing computer games. The problem is becoming serious these days. I'm very worried about him. It makes me unhappy because his interest in computer games is growing day by day.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Sometimes I have to work overtime, I go back home at mid-night and feel very tired. Since we are so busy, I send my child to a lodging school（寄宿学校）and pick him up for the weekend.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} My job as a model makes me lose weight and keep it, but it is a hardship for me, I cannot refuse the temptation（引诱）of the food; as many people, overeating is in my way of losing weight.

    Life in the future will be very different from life today. What will the change(变化)be? There will be changes in our food. Maybe(或许)no one will eat meat every day. They will eat fruit and vegetables. Computers will be very small, and there will be at least(至少)one in every home. People will take the computers in their pockets. Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do dangerous and hard work. People will have more free time to travel.

There was a terrible rainstorm last night. Now the Hills are talking about what they were doing at the time of the rainstorm. 

Jenny was a nurse in a children's hospital. One evening there was a big dance in the hospital, Most of the doctors and nurses would be there, but of course some had to look after the children. Jenny was not among the fortunate (幸运的) ones who were free to go to the dance. She enjoyed dancing very much, so when she had to start working that evening while her friends were getting ready to go to the dance, she felt very sorry for herself. She went to each sick child one by one and said good night. She came to a little boy called Tommy in the end. Tommy was only 11 years old, but he already talked like an adult. Poor Tommy had a very serious illness, and now he could hardly move any part of his body except his hands. But he was happy and thought about others instead of himself all the time. 

When Jenny came up to his bed, he said, "I'm sorry that you have to miss the dance because of us. But we are going to have a party for you. If you look in my drawer, you'll find a piece of cake. I saved it from my supper today, so it's pretty fresh." "I'd get up and dance with you if I could," he added. 

Suddenly the hospital dance seemed very far away and not at all important to Jenny. 

It was a week before I saw Captain Nemo again. Every morning, I noticed fresh air coming into the rooms and I knew that the Nautilus had come to the top. I would go out and see the sunrise.

 Then I received a note from Captain Nemo. He invited me and my friends to go hunting with him in the forests of Crespo Island. Ned was excited because he thought there he could find a chance to run away. When I saw Captain Nemo the next day, I asked him why he was so interested in Crespo Island. "I thought you preferred the sea. "

"I do," replied the Captain. "But these forests are under the sea." During breakfast, he explained, "I have made diving suits that used special air tanks before I sent you the note. These tanks would allow us to stay under the water for ten hours. Wonderful, isn't it?" He said he had also made lights that worked in electric batteries. When Ned realized that we were not going onto land for our hunting trip, he decided not to come at all.

 Conseil and I put on our diving suits, and so did Captain Nemo and one of his men. We stepped into a room and closed the door. The room was filled with water, and another door opened. We went through it, and we were on the sea floor. It was an amazing experience.

 We were about ten metres under the water. The light from the sun reached us. Everything looked very colourful. We walked over the fine sand and enjoyed the colours of the shells, fish and seaweed (海草). Conseil and I followed Captain Nemo and his man as they crossed a large grassy area. We were going deeper and deeper.

 As we were a hundred metres under the water, we could still see quite well. Captain Nemo stopped and pointed to some dark shapes. This was the forest. The"trees" there were giant seaweed, and all their branches were vertical(垂直的). We could not stop looking at them. Fish swam around the branches like birds in a forest. Small bushes grew under the large seaweed trees.

 Three hours later, we lay down to rest. I was not hungry, but very sleepy. We all slept, and when we woke up, we explored further.

(Excerpted from Twenty Thousand LeaguesUnder the Sea)