With all the attention Thanksgiving and Christmas get from travellers, it’s easy to overlook Halloween as a destination holiday. While a few cities provide a ghostly atmosphere all year round, annual festivals, theme park pop-up events and other haunted happenings elsewhere have helped make the holiday a travel mini-season all its own.
New Orleans
Home to year-round cemetery walks, New Orleans is among the cities that naturally harmonize with Halloween. Worth noting every October is the family-friendly Halloween parade, happening this year on Oct. 21, with floats devoted to themes like werewolves and vampires. Float riders throw locally made candies to the crowd. New Orleans hosts plenty of after-event-parties, but the procession itself draws all ages in costume.
Whitby, England
This picturesque town on England’s Yorkshire coast is considered to be the home of Dracula, though in a different way. Bram Stoker spent just a month in Whitby, but those four weeks in July and August 1890 were important in the creation of his most famous book, “Dracula”, which was published in 1897. Whitby celebrated the 125th anniversary of Stoker’s visit in 2015, but this year you can see the skeletal remains of Whitby Abbey illuminated throughout the final week of October.
Salem, Massachusetts
Home to the infamous witch trials of the early 1690s, it should come as no surprise that this town is a hotbed for Halloween activity. One way Salem builds on its spectral past is with the nearly month-long festival of the Dead. Events starting from mid-October this year include psychic readings, mourning-themed tea and on Halloween night, a witches gathering.
Orlando, Florida
The home of Disney World and Universal Studios goes all-out with huge Halloween events. Universal this year will hold its 27th Halloween Horror Night on Oct. 30, a seasonal pop-up featuring haunted houses and “scareactors” employed to frighten visitors. Plus, there are many other activities like trick-or-treating, Disney character encounters, a Halloween ball and fireworks.
1.Which of the following is most recommended for a family going together?
A.New Orleans. B.Whitby, England.
C.Salem, Massachusetts. D.Orlando, Florida.
2.Where do Halloween activities last the longest this year?
A.New Orleans. B.Whitby, England.
C.Salem, Massachusetts. D.Orlando, Florida.
3.What can you do in Orlando, Florida ?
A.Have mourning-themed tea. B.Enjoy dancing.
C.Watch Disney movies. D.See skeletal remains.
假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Miller对你的家乡南充很感兴趣。请你根据以下提示，写一篇100字左右的回信介绍南充。
位置 | 川东北 | 河流 | 嘉陵江 |
面积 | 12,000平方公里 | 人口 | 7, 500,000 |
产品 | 丝绸 | 旅游 | 阆中古城 |
注意：1.短文应包括所有要点。
2.可增加适当细节使行文连贯。
3.词数100左右。
4.开头和结尾 已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Miller,
How's it going? I'm glad you are interested in my hometown Nanchong City.
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Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10 处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏 字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。修改：在错的词下划 一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修 改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。3.错误类型不涉及单词拼写。
Dear Paul,
It's time to say goodbye and it's time to recall those beautifully days we spent together. You are the very person who give me a hand when necessary. You are the most considerate person who knows exactly that I need.
Did you still remember that night two years ago? When I suddenly fell in ill, it was you who carried me on your back to a nearby hospital. You took good care of us while I had an injection. Later, you managed help me with my lessons. With your help, I would have failed in the examination.
I still have hundreds of story to share with you and have thousands of blessings for you. May all your dreams coming true! May our friendship last till the end of the universe!
Yours,
Tom
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
The gorillas（大猩猩）in the valleys in the south often lived together in groups of several tens. They were fond of drinking wine, and even fonder of imitating man's 1. （behave）.
People knew very well their 2. （habit） and often put wine on the roadside together with many straw sandals 3. were connected together with ropes.
The gorillas knew this was 4.trick to lure(引诱)them into traps and cursed: "Humph! Do you think we don't know your tricks? We'll never be taken in!" So they called one another, 5. (turn) round and left.
But they had smelled the aroma(香味)of the wine already, and couldn't bear to part with it. Even after they left, they would turn their heads to look back. 6. they saw no one there, they would turn back; and after they turned back, they were afraid of 7. (cheat), and left again. After much hesitation, they 8. (final) said to themselves: "Just for a taste of the wine. It won't matter as long as we don't get drunk.”
Shortly afterwards, they agreed 9. (come) back to drink the wine. When they got drunk, they forgot everything. Every gorilla put on the straw sandals and imitated the way man walks.
As a result, they fell down one after another and all of them 10. (catch) alive by people.
It was New Year's night. An aged man was standing at the window. The days of his youth appeared like dream before him, and he _____ the serious moment when his father placed him at the ____ of the two roads: one leading to a peaceful, sunny place _____ with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft, sweet songs, and the other leading to a deep dark cave which was ______, and where poison flowed and snakes crawled.
He looked towards the sky and cried ___ Oh youth, return! Oh, my father, place me once more at the entrance to life and I'll ___ the better way! "But both his father and the days of his youth had ___ .
He saw the lights flowing away in the darkness, and these were the days of his wasted life. He saw a star __ from the sky and disappeared, and this was the _____ of himself. His ______, which was like a sharp arrow, struck deeply into his heart. Then he remembered his friends in his childhood, which entered life together with him. But they had made their way to _____ and were now ______ and happy on this New Year's night.
The clock in the high church tower struck and the sound made him remember his parents' early____for him. They had taught him and prayed to God for his good. But he chose the wrong way with ___and grief so that he dared no longer to look towards the __ where his father lived. His __ eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing（绝望的）effort, he burst out a cry:" Come back, my early days! Come back!"
And his youth did _____ ,for all this was only a dream which he had on New Year's night. He was still young though his faults were real. He had not yet entered the deep dark cave, and he was _______free to walk on the road which leads to the peaceful and sunny land.
Those who still linger on（徘徊）the entrance of life _____ to choose the bright road, remember that when years are passed and your feet stumble（绊倒）on the dark mountains, you will cry bitterly, but ______ ."Oh youth return! Oh give me back my early days! ”
1.A.recorded B.recalled C.doubted D.dreamt
2.A.entrance B.end C.middle D.top
3.A.filled B.covered C.grew D.dropped
4.A.bright B.amazing C.Common D.endless
5.A.loudly B.painfully C.happily D.continuously
6.A.abandon B.build C.choose D.change
7.A.washed away B.passed away C.ran away D.broke away
8.A.fall B.rise C.freeze D.shine
9.A.quality B.harvest C.means D.symbol
10.A.sword B.regret C.pride D.feeling
11.A.success B.cave C.failure D.reality
12.A.worried B.deserted C.honored D.frightened
13.A.love B.misleading C.anxiety D.scold
14.A.joy B.heart C.care D.shame
15.A.heaven B.cemetery C.hell D.house
16.A.dried B.darkened C.lighted D.satisfied
17.A.disappear B.remain C.return D.promise
18.A.never B.still C.hardly D.always
19.A.hesitating B.deciding C.refusing D.claiming
20.A.in brief B.in surprise C.in use D.in vain
Those who are good at expressing gratitude often practice the following.
Don't avoid the negative.
Expressing gratitude may generate more optimism. 1. Emmons, a gratitude researcher and psychology professor at the University of California, says that while we often associate gratitude with focusing on the good and avoiding the bad, the key to leading a thankful life is embracing setbacks as part of your overall journey. Emmons suggests recalling a hard time you once experienced. Chances are that you'll start to feel grateful for your current state and overcoming former challenges.
Spend time with loved ones.
2. They make it a habit to spend time with those people who matter most. "Gratitude really helps us connect to other people," Emmons says. "It actually strengthens relationships and relationships are the strongest predictors of happiness and coping with stress."
3.
There's power in the small, ordinary moments, like catching the subway before the doors close or your pet greeting you happily when you get home. Look for a few things to add to your gratitude list.
Volunteer.
Everyone needs a little help sometimes and grateful people know there's no other way to acknowledge this than by actively doing something about it. In his book, Thanks! Emmons wrote, ” 4.” As research published in BMC Public Health points out, volunteering can result in lower feelings of depression and increased overall well-being.
Love yourself.
Grateful people know that their thankful attitude can also fuel self-compassion. A study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found that higher levels of gratitude were associated with greater self-esteem. And it's no wonder: When your well-being is a priority, you can't help but feel great. Thankful for being the person that you are5.
A. Know the value of the little things.
B. Since service to others helped them to find their own inner spirituality, they were grateful for the opportunity to serve.
C. Help others appreciate the value of the little things.
D. However, thankful people also don't shy away from the negative.
E. That should be at the top of your gratitude list.
F. Thankful people know they didn't get to where they are by themselves.
G. Gratitude and fitness can go hand-in-hand.
