【正文】 t”, meaning “Reply, if you please”.The following are some monly used terms in invitation letters and their sure to know these and answer invitations , REGRETS ONLY Only guests who can’t attend need need to give a proper reason why you can’t BY… Guests should respond with yes or no by the date indicated on the a date gives guests a is also a deadline for the host to connect guests who haven’t BY EMAIL Guests can respond by phone calls, s can be sent without regard to time of day or and festivals in the United Kingdom There are many national holidays in the United them, Easter, and Christmas are two of the most The date of Easter varies each usually falls in March or the Easter holiday, people give each other chocolate Easter eggs are opened and eaten on Easter Good Friday(the day before Easter, when Christians observeobserve the ing of New Year on January in Asia and Middle East use other calendars, such as the more ancient lunar celebrate the New Year at other and ceremonies vary from country to in each places, New Year celebrations are a big world cultures have been celebrating the New Year for earliest New Year celebrations took place during spring or harvest better weather ahead, or plenty of food to eat in winter, people naturally felt like having a party!As the days became longer and as nature renewed itself, people also felt like they could have a new disappointments could be New Year could bring better fortune, more opportunities and new universal themes remain the same cultures have unusual New Year throw old things out of their windows at midnight, symbolizing the departure of the fire guns into the air to keep away Year celebrations also involve having cultures view the New Year as an opportunity to let off New York City’s Times Square, thousands gather on December 31 to count down the last seconds of the giant silver ball is lowered at the stroke of , England, hosts an annual New Year’s Day parade that draws nearly a million largest parade in Europe, it features bands and enormous balloons are so huge that they tower over nearby buildings!in the depths of are indeed man’s best sometimes even the friendliest dog can bring death with its bite!This is not because it has changed in character, but because it has been infected with a terrible disease is passed on by a bite from an infected dog at any an infected person shows symptoms, death is certain to follow shortly , in order to prevent the disease, a person should go to a doctor at once if he has been bitten by a remain man’s best friends, but we should also try our best to guard against the horrible disease that can be carried by these done, Spotty!We were walking alone when we saw the Wilkins’ children playing in their three girls were taking turns pushing a oneyearold twin brothers and a big doll were in as we walked by them, a wheel came , my friend, fixed it for they all went upstairs to play some a while Mrs Wilkins went out, and left the twins with the , it wasn’t much fun for me, and soon I went to must have slept pretty hard and pretty of a sudden I woke up and could hardly was room was full of smoke!The house was on fire!I started down the stairs and stumbled over a gray bunch.“That belongs to Freckles,” I thought.“It’s the gray sweater that he likes so might as well take it down to him.”I took the sweater in my mouth and started down weighed so I dropped it on one of the I went back up to look out of a wanted to see why there was so much in the reader’s mind by showing one or two aspects of an is a cartoon that shows a father and his boy is showing his father his school report, which, unfortunately, gives a very poor grade2 out of he does it in a quite unusual way: the report is fastened to one end of a pole while the boy is holding the other the long pole between them, any punishment from the father is out of the the moment, at least, the son is can’t help laughing at the they may also find some food for thought in addition to being cartoons and ic strips had long been a favourite pastime for adults until the beginning of the 20th some businessminded people found that there might be a good market for children, the improvement of printing and drawing techniques, modern cartoons and ic strips had bee children’s favourites by the early 20th(around the 1920s).Since then they have bee popular reading materials for people of all the characters in cartoons and ic strips range from children to adults, pets to fancy animals, and ordinary people to Mouse and Garfield the Cat make children think and imagine and Batman bring villains of all sorts to and Son expresses human love and sympathy in lively ic names have bee household are only a few outstanding products in the the digital revolution has brought new life to the making of cartoons and ic many people think that putermade ics will in the end replace handdrawn , just as the human mind will never give way pletely to the puter, handdrawn ics will never die, but will remain a special means of expressing human3cover story perhaps describes the artist’s own life this experience, Rockwell could make every detail e alive in this brief look at two metropolises NEW YORK In the 19th century, a businessman predicated that New York was going to bee the centre of the prediction has partly e , New York is often regarded as one of the financial and cultural capitals of the Western United Nations has its headquarters in the city as York, where the worldfamous twin towers of the World Trade Center were once located, is known as a city of are parks, great museums, art galleries, grand theatres and cinemas for visitors as , like many other cities in the world, New York also has its own problemsnoise, air pollution, crimes, traffic jams, and , the fast, exciting pace of life in New York City is fascinating and this may be a reason why the city continues to fascinate more and more London