Liu Hao is a student ________ Shanghai. He’s now studying in ________ United States. He’s living with an ________ family in New York. Today is the Dragon ________ Festival. It’s 9:00 a.m.and Liu Hao’s family ________ at home. His mom and sister are making zongzi. His Dad and uncle are ________ the boat races on TV.

Is Liu Hao ________ watching the races and eating zongzi?Well, it’s 9:00 p.m. in New York, and it’s the night before the festival. But there isn’t a Dragon Boat Festival in the US, so it’s like ________ other night for Liu Hao and his host family. The mother is ________ a story to her young children. The father is watching a soccer game on TV. And ________ Liu Hao doing?He’s talking on the phone to his old brother in Shanghai. Liu Hao misses his family and wishes to have his mother’s delicious zongzi.

In America, Thanksgiving Day is an important festival. It comes on the fourth Thursday in November. On this day, people walk or drive cars full of flowers on the streets and eat turkey and pumpkin pies at home. They have different kinds of activities to celebrate it. It’s a day to remember the history and to show their thanks.

People usually come back home on that day. All the family members get together with some friends. Everyone is glad to see each other. At about four o’clock the family and their friends sit down to dinner. They give thanks for the good things they got, and then start to share the turkey. People always have a big dinner. They usually eat turkey and pumpkin pies. After dinner, no one goes away and they all sit around and talk, play word games, or tell jokes（笑话）until it is time to go to sleep. It is always difficult to leave because Thanksgiving Day is one of the few days for family get-together around the year.

(Mrs Jones, the head master, is giving the students some information about the trip.)

Now, here’s some information about our school trip. As usual we will spend the first four days in Paris. We’ll have a sightseeing tour of the city and we’ll also visit some of the famous places like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. From Paris we’ll travel down to the south of France near Marseilles by boat. We’ll spend five days there.

Last year we went by bus, but we found that the journey was too long and we didn’t have enough time to do everything. So this year we will go by train. I will provide more information about the schedule (日程安排) later. There will be 80 students on the trip. We will travel in three groups and there will be three teachers with each group. I will go with Group One.

I hope that everyone on the trip will have a good time, but please remember that it is an educational (有关教育的) visit, not a holiday. There will be some time for swimming and other sports, but we are going to France to study French culture and use the French language as much as possible.

In China, different p    51     have different weather. In Heilongjiang, the weather is always     52     in winter and hot in summer.     53     in Hainan island, the weather is very warm in winter and hot in summer. Kunming is a     54    （春天）city. It’s     55    （温暖的）all the time.

In London, the weather c    56     very often. You can see a sunny day in the morning, and then a rainy day one or two     57     (hour) later. People always talk     58     the weather in London. They often talk to you, “If you don’t like the weather, it doesn’t m    59    . It will change in a minute.”

Now people can do many things about weather. It’s     60     (call) man-made（人造的）weather. We hope we can decide the weather one day.

61. 请你以Lucy的名义给你的朋友Tom写一封60词左右的信，介绍你去云南旅行的情况。用到以下信息：乘坐哪一种交通工具到达云南，出行日期，云南的天气，旅行花费的时间，去了哪些地方，做了哪些事，等等。信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

I had a wonderful trip in Yunnan.

Yours,

Lucy