新目标（Go for it）版初中英语九年级上册Unit 2 Section A 随堂小练笔

— I'm trying ________. It's really hard, you know.

    The Spring Festival is usually in January or February. It is one of the (important) festivals in China. So it comes, everyone has to prepare lots of things. They buy pork, beef, chicken, fruit and many other things. And they often make special kind of food "dumplings" It (mean) come together". On the day before the festival, parents buy new clothes for their children. Children also buy presents for their parents. Chinese New Year's Eve(除夕), all the family (member) come back to their hometown. This is a happy moment. Some sing and dance, some play cards and get the dinner ready. They out dumplings, fruit, meat and other delicious food on the table, and then start to enjoy the meal. They give each other the best wishes for the (come) year. At the same time, they share some (interest) things with their families. They all have a good time.

    The United States is one of the few countries in the world that have an official Father's Day. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given.

    The start of Father's Day is not clear. No matter when the first true Father's Day began, the strongest promoter of the holiday is Sonora Smart Dodd of Washington. Mrs. Dodd felt that she had a great father, He was a soldier of the Civil War. His wife had died young, and he had raised six children alone.

    In 1909, Mrs. Dodd advised having a church service to thank fathers on June 5, her father's birthday. But there wasn't enough time left for her to prepare the service, so she put it off a few weeks later to June 19.

From then on. Washington State celebrated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.

    States and organizations began persuading Congress to start a Father's Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea. And President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event in 1924. Since then, fathers had been honored and recognized by their families throughout the country on the third Sunday in June. When children can't visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Usually, fathers prefer greeting cards. Most greeting cards are funny. Fathers laugh when they open them.

    Mother's Day is a time of commemoration (纪念) and celebration for Mom. It is a time of breakfast in bed, family gatherings, and crayons scribbling "I Love You".

The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be dated1to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During2, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of3. In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872by Julia Ward Howe. In 1907, Anna Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign (运动) to establish (建立) a 4Mother's Day. Ms Jarvis persuaded (说服) her mother's church in Grafton. West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary (周年纪念日) of her mother's 5, the 2nd Sunday of May. And the next year Mother's Day 6in Philadelphia. Ms Jarvis and her supporters began to7officials, businessmen, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful.8 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every9. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, announced Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held on the 2nd Sunday of May each year.

     While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at10throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark. Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.