【推荐2】Every year thousands of people get hurt or die when they are crossing the road. Most of these people are old people and children. The old people often get hurt or die because they can’t see or hear very well. Children usually meet with accidents because of their carelessness. They forget to look and listen before they cross the road.

How can we lessen(减少) traffic accidents? All of us must follow the traffic rules. For the drivers, they shouldn’t drive too fast. If they drive too fast, it will be very difficult to stop the cars in a very short time. For the pedestrians(行人), it’s very important to be careful when they are walking on the road. Therefore, when we walk across the road, we must try to walk along the pavements(人行道). We must stop and look both sides before crossing the road. Look left first, next look right, then look left again. Only when we are sure that the road is clear, we can cross it. The right way to cross the road is to walk quickly. It’s not safe to run. If people run across the road, they may fall down. Students should try to help children, old people or blind people to cross the road, and never play in the street.

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The Longtaitou Festival, also known as the Eryue’er Festival, is a traditional festival. It is on the second day of the second month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year it falls on March 11th. An old saying goes, “Er yue er, long tai tou.” It means on the second day of the second month, the dragon lifts his head. This festival was important in ancient China. People believed after this day the rain would increase because the rain-bringing Dragon King woke up from his winter sleep. So it marked the start of spring and farming.

There are many ways to celebrate the festival. The most famous tradition is to have a haircut. Some people believe that having a haircut on this day brings them good luck, while others believe that having a haircut in the first lunar month will cause their uncle to die.

People in East China’s Fujian Province eat tofu balls during the festival. They often make tofu and vegetable balls to pray for family and business—hoping everything goes well. Eating chengyao cakes on this day is a tradition in Suzhou, East China’s Jiangsu Province. It is said that if you eat chengyao cakes on Longtaitou, your waist (腰) won’t hurt the whole year. People in parts of Shandong Province eat fried beans to celebrate the festival. Other foods, like noodles, dumplings, spring rolls (春卷) and popcorn, are all given dragon names on this day. Noodles are called dragons’ beard (long xu), dumplings are dragons’ ears (long er), spring rolls are dragons’ scales (long lin), and popcorn is called dragons’ seeds (long zi). It’s said that eating these foods on this day can bring good luck.