【推荐1】Hello, everyone! I’m Mary Green. Let me tell you ________ about school breaks (短假) and a holiday for American students. American students ________ three school breaks and a holiday. They are fall break, winter break, spring break ________ summer holiday. The longest (最长的) holiday is summer ________. It’s about ten weeks.

________ break is about twenty days. It’s in December and January. You can ________ it “snow week” because many students go snowing during that break. The spring break is in March. It is about two weeks. ________ the students have a few school breaks and holidays, they don’t go to ________. Also, ________ Thanksgiving, students usually get a three-day holiday.

What do you think about American ________ and their holidays? Are they happy and free? Thank you for listening.

【推荐2】We have returned from our holiday. We went with our friends Jim and his wife Gina to the Yorkshire Moors. This is a beautiful place. It is a nature park. There _____ a lot of places to walk on the tops of the hills, miles of grass and with no people, just sheep _____ birds. Jim just came out of hospital. He could not walk as _____ as before. However, this meant that we walked in the mornings for about three hours, and then stopped at a cafe for _____ each day, before returning to the place we live. Then Jim and I slept in the room all _____, while the ladies went for another walk. When they came back, we had supper together. Very pleasant!

I _____ a lot of photos from the place where we lived, across the river near the hotel, of the morning sunrise, and the thin cloud in the valley(河谷). _____, in England, the old steam-powered(蒸汽驱动的) trains are very popular. I took many photos of the train and from _____.

Yesterday, we had the first _____ of this winter. It snowed all day, then stopped in the evening. Today we have bright sunshine!

We are going back to _____ tomorrow. After a pleasant travel, I'm sure we can enjoy our work.

【推荐3】When I was 7 years old, I went to the USA with my mom. I can still _______ the first Halloween holiday I had in the USA.

On the morning of Halloween, we went to a pumpkin(南瓜) farm. Each of us brought a pumpkin to school with us. I used my pumpkin to make a lantern which had two round eyes and a scary mouth.

In the afternoon, we _______ the Halloween costurmes(服装) and had a parade(游行) in school. Some of the costurmes were funny, but some of them _______ scary. I chose to wear a Superman costurme.

I did a lot of things that day, but the part I liked _______ was “trick or treat” in the evening. After dinner, I went outside with a bag. I _______ to get a lot of candies from my neighbors. At first, I was a bit nervous, _______ when I knocked at the first door, my heart was beating very fast. A lady _______ and I said carefully to her, “Trick or treat.”

My _______ was very low, so low that I could hardly hear myself speak. To my surprise, the lady was so kind that she gave me two candies, and I was so _______. I thanked the lady and moved on. I can’t remember how many houses I visited, but I can remember how many ________ I got—I got 91 that day, and I was so happy. What a happy Halloween I had! And I wish we could have Halloween every month!

【推荐2】Life is getting better and better now. Many people like shopping on the Internet. Do you like shopping online? I like buying magazines online. They are often ________, so you don’t have to spend much money. And I am ________. It is hard for me to ________ to the shopkeepers in real shops. Sometimes online shops can ________ you some pictures of the magazines. I think it is very helpful. I don’t like to read magazines in ________ because the keepers may come and talk with me. I don’t know what to say to them.

I can shop at ________ if I want to. Real shops close at 10 o’clock in the evening. Some people think the postman(快递员)sometimes may break or lose their things, but I don’t ________ that. I think most of the postmen are very kind and careful. I am ________ my grandfather how to shop online now. He is too ________ to walk far so it’s good for him to shop online. My little sister ________ wants to learn how to shop online. It’s interesting for her.