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Different countries have different     1     (custom) in the world. It’s very important for us to know about them.

When you go to the US, someone often says to you "give me five". What should you do? Do not get five dollars from your pocket! It will make others     2     (laugh)! The person is not     3     (ask) for your money, but your fingers.

In the US, "give me five" or" give me the high five" is one of     4     (popular) gestures(动作). You can see it often in films or on TV. It means hitting each     5     (other) right hands together.

When people meet for the first time or talk     6     (happy) with others, they do it. For example, a student has good marks in exams. If a football team wins a game, the players     7     (give) high fives to everyone around     8     (celebrate).

This gesture may come from the old Roman gesture of     9     (put) up the right hand for the emperor. This     10     (show) the person raising his arm did not have a sword(剑)in his hand.

Madame Curie(居里夫人)

Marie is a famous woman in the world. She made a lot of important contributions(贡献) to the development of humans. She was born in Poland     1     1867.     2     father worked as a middle school headmaster and taught math and physics, so she enjoyed and did     3     in these two subjects at school. Marie went to study in Paris University in 1891. She studied math and physics there and met a scientist     4     Piere Curie. They     5     married in 1895. From     6     on, she was called Madame Curie. Together, Piere and Marie discovered radium(镭).

In 1903, Marie became     7     first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Then, in 1904, Piere became a member of the “Académie Française”(法兰西学院). But Marie was not accepted by them because women were not allowed to become members at that     8    . In 1906, Pierre died in an accident, but Marie didn’t stop working     9     she died in 1934.

Madame Curie is our hero. Not only did she discover radium,     10     also she won the Nobel Prize twice in her lifetime.

The first day of the month of May is May Day（五朔节）.

It is one of the oldest f    1     in many Western countries., It is the time of the year w    2     the cold winter ends and the warm weather begins. Flowers start to blossom. On this day, people c    3     the coming of summer and express（表达）their happiness and h    4    for better months. Usually summer c    5     in June, but May Day really shows a new beginning. People have different a    6     on this special day.

Decorating houses

May Day begins early in the morning. People usually go o    7     before the day starts. They c    8     flowers and green plants to decorate（装饰）their houses. They believe these will bring them good luck.

Washing faces with the early morning dew（露水）

The morning dew of May Day is also called May dew. For young girls, the first thing to do on 1st May is to run into the garden and wash their faces with May dew. They're s    9     May dew has magic power（魔力）. I    10     they wash their faces with it, they will be beautiful all the year.

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