We spoke to three students from around the world about different national holidays.
There are different customs for each festival.
Tan Xiaodong，15，Hong Kong, China
"I'll soon be Chinese New Year. Before it, well clean the house and decorate it for good luck.
Every shop is going to close for a few days and we'll go out a lot to celebrate in the streets. We might go and see the lion and dragon dances in the city center. I love this festival."
Wendy, 16, Sydney, Australia
"Australia Day is on 26th January and it's an important holiday here. We always have a Monday off，so we celebrate for three days. My parents and I go to the countryside for a picnic and friends always come over. Many people go to beach parties or street parties and there's lots of music and dancing. What fun!"
Amy，14. New York, U.S.A.
"The first Thanksgiving Day was hundreds of years ago when Europeans who came to America thanked God for his help. It's still a very important day for families to be together. This year we're going to visit my grandparents and we'll eat a delicious meal of turkey. Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday in November every year."
They thought it was going to be easy. A piece of cake. The band, Suenalo, were excited that they would present their skills to a group of troubled youth at a detention center (少管所).
They arrived at the invitation of a friend, who was an adviser at the center. He had mentioned a career day where members of the community came to speak to the teens about their jobs. Usually the speakers were bankers or lawyers, so he thought it would be interesting for the kids to meet some musicians and maybe even hear some music. "They need something cool to get their attention" was the pitch from the friend.
The kids, about 40, were brought in, looking distant, some even angry. Chad Bernstein, the trombone player, started telling the career of a musician from touring to copyright to the business aspects, trying to draw their interest. However， it didn't. Sensing that they couldn't win, the band，a little thrown, decided to play one song. With music going, the kids seemed to respond, their heads nodding to the beat. One of them sang a lyric. The band sang it back. Then, one by one, the musicians began picking up the beat. Chad started free styling a rap, going back and forth with the kid, and in no time, other kids jumped in. Suddenly the band and the kids were creating a song from scratch and all of them were in musical heaven.
For Chad, that moment inspired him to found Guitars Over Guns, an organization that pairs at-risk middle-schoolers with professional musicians. As both music teachers and life coaches，the musicians give the kids a way to find their creative voices and get through dark times. Over time, the kids have dropped their tough fronts and shared personal stories, from family tragedies 10 ordinary struggles at school with friends.
"So far we've helped over 2, 700 students. Our work is highly satisfying because it shows us that a music career is more than a job, it can have more impact," says Chad Bernstein.
From the moon to Mars, scientists have been looking for water— the key to life— in the solar system for decades. Recently, they have turned to Jupiter (木星)!
On April 14, the European Space Agency's (ESA) JUlCE spacecraft successfully lifted off from French Guiana in South America, JUICE, short for "Jupiter lcy Moons Explorer", will collect data from Jupiter and its three moons, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto.
The three moons are believed to have big oceans of liquid water under their icy shells. According to ESA, the water on these moons could be as much as six times the amount in Earth's oceans. The mission"will change our understanding of the solar system"，wrote Scientific American.
In 1998, NASA's Galileo spacecraft found that Europa might send water as far as 160 kilometers into space. That gave scientists the idea of studying the icy moons of Jupiter.
The oceans under these moons are likely to be tens of kilometers deep. But they are also trapped under tens of kilometers of ice, making it very difficult to study them, Although JUICE cannot land on the surface. It has lots of high-tech equipment to study the moon's environment, including spectral imaging (光谱成像) tools and radar. They could give more data on things like the thickness of the oceans, their salt content and their distance from the icy shells above, reported Phys. org.
"The main goal is to understand whether there are habitable (可居住的) environments among those icy moons and around a giant planet like Jupiter," JUICE team member Olivier Witasse said during a press conference on April 6.
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With gas prices rising and airport security lines snaking longer than ever. why not book your next domestic vacation on a train? Compared to other alternatives. it's comfortable and relaxing. Here is some advice on how to make a trip by rail as pleasant as possible.
Plan ahead. Most long-distance trains, especially the sleeping car accommodations, sell out very quickly. But no matter when you travel, it's a good idea to make your reservations at least 90 days in advance.
Use a travel agent. Consider turning your travel plan over to a travel agent and letting him double check all the details, make suggestions, and then handle the actual reservations. A good one can sometimes find you discounted tickets.
Then you won't have to walk through several cars on a moving train three times a day for your meals.
Bring ablanket. When you're riding on trains, you won't be provided with a blanket for free, even if your trip is an overnight one. In the summer in particular, the air conditioning can make them quite cold.
Arrive early. Most trains operate just once a day and some run only three times a week. So missing yours can be a disaster. Note: The times listed on the schedules are departure times, not arrival times.
Have fun. Read a book, knit do a crossword puzzle, or simply watch the world unfold outside the window. To calculate your speed as you do, divide 3, 600(the number of seconds in an hour) by the number of seconds it takes you to travel one mile( the distance between two mileposts). If it takes the train 53 seconds to travel one mile, you're going 67.92 mph,
A. Train trips aren't for impatient types.
B. You'll have views from both sides of the train,
C. The temperature on rail cars is often hard to control,
D. That's particularly true during busy summer months.
E. You might have to wait longer than 24 hours to catch the next one.
F. Chances are the cost will be a lot less than the cost of one bedroom.
G. He may also book you in a sleeping car that's right next to the diner.
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It was hard not to notice the 8-year -old boy across the street who stormed in and out of his own house. He did it so often that a neighbor, William Dunn，1 what was going on in his life. So Dunn asked him.
"He told me that he didn't have a father,".
says Dunn，now 58，"and I2 there might be something I could do for him."
That something was fishing, a3 Dunn's father had shared with him. "Fishing always brought me peace and taught me how to be 4 . When you're on the water, you can forget about your problems and just 5 the moment," Dunn, who has three children of his own, got6 from the boy's mother to take him fishing.
One Saturday afternoon on the water led to another, and soon he was teaching other kids in their 7 how to rig a line, hold a pole, and reel in a big catch. That was 16 years ago.
Since then, Dunn has taken groups of kids out almost every weekend to fish. Most didn't have father 8 in their lives and had never fished before. Some were adopted kids who had 9 from one home to the next.
"They' d been through a lot, and they' d seen a lot, and their lives were 10 ,"Dunn says. "But when they were fishing, all of that11 . They'd be laughing and smiling and making new friends out on the12 . I knew I was on to something."
In the beginning, Dunn-"Big Will" to the kids-spent a good chunk of his 13 from his job renting boats for the kids. Then, in 2018，he14 the nonprofit Take a Kid
Fishing lne. He and a small group of volunteers have introduced more than 2，500 kids--most without fathers around— to the inner 15 found on the water and the excitement of catching a fish.
Hiking tours are a kind of adventure tourism. Generally speaking. these vacations focus almost entirelyhiking [rom one place to another. Hiking tours can be done as a group activity or alone.
There are many different ways of organizing hiking tours. Some people like to go out into the areas where there are very few people and travel over a long (distant) from one place to another. They usually stay in hotels overnight before (travel) to the next place on the following day.
Guides can make hiking trips safer and more focused. Some hikers prefer to take hiking tours without guides because of costs or because they want to challenge (they). However. employing a reliable guide during a hiking tour ( consider) as a better choice for less experienced hikers.
The activity can be very tiring and those are new to hiking may worry that they aren't (physical) able to finish the tours. Sometimes it can be helpful for people (go) to the doctor and make sure it is safe for them to choose difficult hike. Sometimes. A (challenge) hike can be deadly for someone having heart disease.
注意： 1.词数应为80左右;2.可适当加人细节.使内容充实、行文连贯。
A Beautiful Place in China
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By Li Jin
Jackson's family hired a driver. The driver's family came to stay with them in a small house in their backyard. That's how Jackson met the driver's eight-year-old son Tom. From the day he met Jackson, Tom became his fan. For Tom，11-year old Jackson secerned to be a big boy. He would always follow Jackson around.
Tom didn't go to school. He was admitted to a local government school, but he refused to go.
He told Jackson shyly that the teachers only made them copy words from the blackboard. Since he hadn't learned how to read, he could not understand anything that was written on the blackboard.
Jackson felt sorry for him. On Sunday, Jackson saw Tom sitting under a tree holding an alphabet (字母表) book in his hands. Jackson walked quietly towards him and discovered that Tom was holding the book upside down.
Jackson took the book out of Tom's hands and turned the right side up. "This is how you should read," he told Tom. Two big tears rolled down Tom's cheeks. Tom told Jackson, "I want to be like you, but I can't do anything." That evening, Jackson told his parents they had to help Tom get into a better school. It was not easy to make Tom admitted to a new school, because the time for admission was over.
Luckily, one principal (校长) looked at Tom kindly and admitted him to her school. The next day Tom went to his new school wearing a new shirt. But when Tom returned from school, he was a bit sad. The other children in his class had laughed at him. He told Jackson, "They all said I am much older than them but in a smaller class. I don't want to go to school."
注意：1.续写词数应为150左右;2.请按如下格式作答。
Paragraph 1:
Jackson said, "Don't worry, Tom, 1 will teach you to read.
Paragraph 2:
Two months later, Tom returned from school with a bright smile.
