1 . Every year on the third Sunday in June, Father’s Day is celebrated by families all around the world. We celebrate and honor fathers and their influence in our lives. Apart from your biological father, you can also celebrate grandfathers, stepfathers, and others you consider father figures.     1    

The history of Father’s Day goes back to 1908, when a church in West Virginia honored 362 men killed the previous year in a coal mining explosion. The following year, a woman named Dodd started her quest to establish Father’s Day as a national holiday.     2     So she thought fathers should be honored in the same way as mothers.

    3     It was finally declared a national holiday in 1972. It took more than 60 years from the birth of the idea to Father’s Day actually being recognized as a holiday.     4     In the 1920s and 1930s, there was a national movement to get rid of both Mother’s and Father’s Day and replace them with one “Parent’s Day”. Meanwhile, many fathers didn’t want such a holiday. After all, as the only breadwinners at the time, they didn’t particularly want their hard-earned cash spent on flowers and chocolates.

    5     Struggling businessmen pushed the gift-giving holiday during the Depression, and during the War, Father’s Day became a way to honor the many fathers serving overseas. By the time President Nixon signed the Father’s Day as a holiday, it was already a national institution.

2 . From grand museum openings to music, art and theatre, these are the coolest new things happening anywhere this year.

This townhouse, where the controversial French singer Serge Gainsbourg spent the last 20 years of his life, has been completely closed off to the public since Gainsbourg's death in 1991, but next spring it'll finally open as a museum. The main attraction will be Serge's famously odd living area, with its huge collection of sculptures.

Just 90 minutes by train from Copenhagen, Odense is best known as the birthplace of Christian Andersen, and it's now home to the new HCA Museum. With its biographical exhibits and inanimate projects that come alive, this thoroughly fun museum would have delighted the “Little Mermaid” and “Snow Queen” author himself.

When it finally opens in November 2022, the Grand Egypt Museum will be the biggest museum in the world for a single civilization. Costing $1 billion, this museum will be about the size of the Louvre in Paris. Most importantly, this will be the first time that all 5,000 pieces of King Tut's treasure will be displayed in the same place.

Serbia's second-largest city will wear the crown of European Capital of Culture for the year. Ever fancied checking out of an exhibition in an abandoned pasta factory? The Mlin Cultural Station awaits. Novi Sad's unique architecture and history have long made it a major destination.

End of Heat (处暑) implies that most parts in China     1     (get) rid of the hot summer and entering autumn. But in some areas,     2    (especial) in South China, autumn is late in coming and people are still bothered by hot weather. End of Heat is also the busy harvest season for     3    (farmer).

In China, regions beyond the Great Wall will enter autumn in early September. People can enjoy the scenery as it changes gradually     4     summer to autumn. When the End of Heat comes, summer heat is     5    (go). Clouds in the sky scatter (散开) around,    6    (form) different shapes. There is a saying     7     goes, “Enjoying the clouds of various forms in July and August.”

It is a tradition     8    (eat) duck during the End of Heat period. Duck has a sweet flavor and according to Chinese traditional medicine it has a “cool” nature. There are many recipes for cooking duck such as roasted duck, cooked duck with lemon,    9    (smoke) duck with walnut dressing and sauteed duck with ginger shoots. The tradition of eating duck during     10     End of Heat period is still popular in China.

5 . Every year, millions of people around the world head to Disneyland, Universal Studios, and other theme parks to experience the rides. It’s easy to think that these theme parks are a product of recent times, but they actually have a long history!

For centuries, traveling fairs went from city to city to entertain people. In Europe, public “pleasure gardens” were created for people to enjoy various kinds of performances. In 1791, the first World’s Fair in Prague combined these two traditions in Europe. In 1851, the first official World Expo was held in London’s Hyde Park. These fun and educational exhibitions attracted crowds from all over the world to come and admire new inventions and artistic displays. The Ferris wheel was one of these inventions; it first appeared at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the United States economy grew rapidly thanks to the Industrial Revolution. Americans were earning more and more money and had more free time to spend it. This led to permanent amusement parks，which could provide entertainment throughout the whole year. By the 1920s, amusement parks had entered their “Golden Age”. They were open all year round, and anyone with money to spend could buy a ticket to enter, enjoy the rides, and watch the performances. Hundreds of them appeared around the US and featured rides like roller coasters.

While many amusement parks were focused on providing visitors with a fun atmosphere and exciting rides, other parks built their attractions around themes to make visitors feel like they had stepped into a different world. The most famous theme park of all time is Disneyland，which was first built in 1955 and continues to bring fun and joy to children and adults alike across the world.

Today, you can visit Disneyland and experience everything a theme park has to offer: go on rides inspired by movies, take pictures with actors dressed as famous characters, and even enjoy food that looks like it came straight out of a movie!