One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl answered, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The foreigner was quite   (1)   at the answer. Thinking he had not made   (2)   understood or the girl had not   (3)   him clearly, he said, “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.”

Songkran is a time for cleaning in Thailand. People always  (1)  their house during the festival. It is  (2)  April 13 to 15 every year.

The festival is a  (3)  time for all children to show their love to their parents. Children pour some  (4)  on their parents’ hands. It is  (5)   called "Water Festival",  (6)   people think water can wash bad  (7)   away. It’s hot in April in Thailand. Water can make people  (8)  , so the festival is very popular.

At that time people usually come back home to  (9)  their families. They also do many interesting things,  (10)  travelling with their families. Everyone in Thailand enjoys the festival.

More than 3,000 languages are spoken in the world. Of all these languages, English is  (1)   used. When it is used, the English language has also   (2)   many new words from other languages. For example, Americans borrowed “cookbook” from   (3)  . They also borrowed “tofu” and “kowtow” from Chinese.

  (7)  hand, Chinese people love cats very much. But   (8)  western culture, “cat” is sometimes used to describe a woman who is cruel. The rose is   (9)   a symbol of love in both China and some western countries. People think the rose   (10)   love, peace, courage and friendship.

More than 3,000 languages are spoken on the earth today. Many of these languages are spoken   (1)   small groups of people. On the   (2)   hand, over 200 languages are spoken by one million or more people. Chinese is the language spoken by the   (3)   number of people in the world. But English is most   (4)   spoken in the world.

English is spoken by more than 400 million people   (5)   their first language. It is   (6)   by most people in the U.S.A., Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And it is   (7)   used very widely in many other countries of the world.

Look at the back of your watch. You may see the English words“Made   (8)   China, or Japan, even Germany.”English is the first language in   (9)   of these countries. Why are English words   (10)   on it? That is because in the modern world English is widely used for business between different countries.

How important is music? Students, teachers and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very   (1)  . It is often only thought to beentertainment(娱乐的), but not the  (2)  choice for education. This opinion is wrong. In fact, music education is necessary for   (3)   students.

Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different  (4)  . Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music works toexplore(探索)emotive(情绪的) meanings. All people in the world   (5)   every possible way to learn about our world.

Music is a form of thought. We can “  (6)  ” to each other in this amazing way.   (7)   the language we express our feelings, discoveries, ideas and hopes. All of these can be   (8)  with others. When we do not let our children   (9)  good music education, we take  (10)  away from the meanings that music expresses. So music education is much more necessary than people generally think.

People all over the world celebrate the new year．However, not all countries celebrate in the same way, and in some countries, the new year doesn't begin on the   (1)   date very year．

In many countries, the new year begins on 1st January, but people start celebrating on 31st December, New Year's Eve．In New York many people go to celebrate in Times Square．  (2)  they're waiting for the New Year, they listen to music, sing traditional songs and have fun．Just before 12 o'clock, everyone  (3)   down from 10：10, 9, 8… As soon as it's 12 o'clock, everyone shouts very  (4)  , “Happy New Year!”

New Year's Day is often a family day．Some families get together for a special meal．When the weather is fine, many families go out for a  (5)  ．

On New Year's Day, many people make resolutions for the new year．They  (6)   a list of things, such as “I will help out more with housework．I will work  (7)  at school than others．” or “I won't spend so much time playing video games．” When they have made  (8)  list, they read it to their family or friends and promise to  (9)  their resolutions．

So it doesn't matter how they celebrate,   (10)  people in countries all over the world, it's a time to say goodbye to the old year, and to welcome the new．

Formany young people, Halloween（万圣节）is the best day of the year. The festival has a very   (1)   history.

People   (2)  celebrated it in Ireland and Scotland as a festival of the dead. Families invited their ancestors（祖先）into their homes   (3)   tried to keep bad spirits（幽灵）out by   (4)   scary clothes. Now the festival is a time for  (5)  . Families make scary or funny faces into pumpkins（南瓜）and put candles inside to make them into lanterns（灯笼）. The children  (6)   and walk around to make more candy. They knock on doors and when a person opens the door, the children shout, “Trick or treat!”

If the person didn’t give them a treat, they would play a trick. But today, children usually don’t play tricks. They are too busy  (7)  as much candy as they can. Many people have Halloween parties. They like to watch scary movies and  (8)   scary stories. Sometimes they play a game. They put water and apples into a tub（盆）and try to  (9)   the apples out with their teeth. The game is so  (10)   that everyone likes it.

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Christmas is an interesting festival. It is ___  (1)  ___December 25th. It’s the ___  (2)  ___ festival in the Western countries. It’s just like our Spring Festival. Families get together and enjoy the holiday. There is always an old man. He has many names, but we usually call him Santa Claus. He always ___  (3)  ___ a red coat and a red hat. He is very busy on Christmas Eve. ___  (4)  ___does Santa put his gifts? In the Christmas ___  (5)  ___! So children always hang (挂) the stockings on their beds on Christmas Eve. And then they will find gifts in them the next morning. In addition (此外), people often put a Christmas tree in their house. And they also sing Christmas songs from door to door on Christmas Eve. Can you sing it?

Beautiful pictures of mountains and forests, clear skies, flying birds, wild animals, silly faces-you can find them all in one place.   (1)  ?On a postcard! Have people always sent postcards? No! Before postcards, people   (2)  sealed (密封的) letters.

The   (3)   for the first decorated postcard came to John P. Charlton in 1861. He thought a simple card with a border would be a great way to send a note. Then in the late 1800s, postcards which had pictures on them   (4)  .By law, people had to write their note on the front-on the picture! The back was   (5)  for the address. Several years later, England allowed a divided-back (背面隔开的) postcard. Then people could write their note on the back left side. And they put the address   (6)  . During the early 1900s, the golden age of postcards, people around the world were more and more   (7)   picture postcards. In 1908, Americans alone mailed over 677 million postcards.

Today, postcards are the   (8)  most popular collection in the world after stamps and coins. You can always see or get a lot of newly-designed postcards, especially on New Year's Day.

  I come fromGuilin. It is my  (1)  .It’s a beautiful  (2)  of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The  (3)  of Guilin is about 4,760,000.The climate (气候) there is very great. The old like to live there. Guilin has a  (4)  history. It is a good place to   (5)  your free time. You can enjoy its natural scenery. It is  (6)  the Li River(漓江). There are many good places to visit. It is  (7)  its green hills and clear water in the world. It is very popular. Every year   (8)  of visitors come here to spend their holidays.  (9)  to my home town! I will be your good guide. You will have  (10)  good time.