What's your plan for the holidays? When July comes, children know they'll have 1 examinations and the school year will end soon. Boys and girls will have a nearly two months' holiday, and some of them will 2 to see their parents 3 train or car.
The summer holiday is the 4 time of the year for most children. The weather is usually good, so one can 5 most of his time playing outside. If one lives in the country, he can 6 into the woods and in the fields. If one lives in a big town, he can usually go to a park to play. The best place for a summer holiday is the 7. Some children are 8 enough to live near the sea. But for the others who do not, if they have the chance to stay at one of the big seaside towns for a week or two, they will talk about it all the following school year.
Now, 9 makes children like the seaside so much? I think it is the sand, the sea and the sun. Of course, there are 10 new things to see, nice food to eat and interesting things to do. But the feeling of sand under the feet and the feeling of the warm sun on their backs make them happier.
Thousands of years ago. in the south of ancient China, there lived Shennong, a man who had an ox(牛) head and human body. Seeing that local people were suffering from disease, he built ladders and houses on a high mountain to store hundreds of medical plants. To remember him, people named the place Shennongjia.
The legend(传说) makes Shennongjia in Hubei an inviting place for tourists. Travelling there is a unique experience, as you can see sceneries of the four seasons from different altitudes. “When the bottom of the mountain is summer, the top is spring and while the foothill is autumn, the top is covered with ice," local people say of the special climate of Shennongjia.
Shennongjia is also home to 5, 000 species of animals and plants. Many animals in danger live there, such as the golden monkey, the clouded leopard and the Asian black bear.
One interesting and mysterious thing about Shennongjia is its legend of wild men. Some people once claimed that they saw big footprints or big-foot creatures. Yet so far, scientists haven't proved it is true and some say they are just bears.
The beautiful place has recently received a new title. On July 17, 2016, Shennongjia Forestry District was added to United Nations World Heritage list as a natural site. China now has 52 world heritage sites(遗址)，second only to Italy in the world.
Mexico (墨西哥) is to the south of the U. S. and it's a very beautiful country. Most of the people there speak Spanish.
Mexico is one of the most famous old cultural centers in the world. The Maya Civilization (玛雅文明) was developed there. People can see many old buildings in Mexico, such as the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid They are very famous places of interest, and lots of people from the world visit them every day.
In Mexico, you can see cactuses (仙人掌) everywhere. There are about two thousand kinds of cactuses in the world, and you can find more than half of them in Mexico. Some cactuses are about 17 meters tall and 40,000 kilograms! That's amazing, isn't it? So Mexico is called "The Nation of Cactuses".
Mexico is also the home town of corn. The Mexican usually say, "We created (创造) corn and at the same time, corn created us."
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