【正文】 tern holi day H al l oween also had i ts origi n i n ol d beli efs about the return of the spi ri ts of dead peopl e. It i s now a chil dren’s festi val , when they can dress up an go to their nei ghbours’ hom es to ask for sweets. If the nei ghbours do not gi ve any sweers, the chil dren mi ght pl ay a tri ck on them . Feti val s to H onour People Festi val s can al so be hel d to honour fam ous peopl e. The Dragon Boat Festi val i n Chi na honours the fam ous ancient poet, Qu Yuan. In the USA, Col um bus Day i s i n m em ory of the arri val of Chri stopher Col um bus i n the New W orl d. Indi a has a nati onal festi val on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the l eader who hel ped gai n Indi a’s i ndependece from Bri tai n. Harvest Festi vals H arvest and Thanksgi ving festival can be very happy events. Peopl e are grateful because thei r food is gathered for thehave di ed out m ore recentl y. Accordi ng to a UN report , som e 844 anim al s and plants have di sappeared i n the l ast 500 years. The dodo i s one of them. It li ved on the Isl and of Mauri ti us and was a very fri endl y anim al . Pl ease li sten to a story of the dodo and how i t disappeared from the earth. (3) The return of the m il u deer My nam e is Li nhui . I li ke to tel stori es about people who work together. What i s even better i s when countri es help each other and bui l d a good fri endshi p. An excel ent exam pl e of this hapened when Bri tai n and Chi na worked together to bring the Mil u deer back to China. The Mi l u deer, a speci es wi th l arge horns, used to be mon i n Chi na l ong ago. Li ke other deer they li ve together and eat grass and the soft parts of tres such as sm al l u deer were often hunted for food or sport i n the past. The , Mi ng and Qi ng dynasti es di d not protect them and m any were kil led. That is how the Mi l u deer disappeared from Chi na. Lucki ly before al of them were ki l ed, som e were taken to Bri tai n to i m prove the environm ent of the beauti ful park whi ch belonged to the Duke of e l i ked them so m uch that he took them al the way from Chi na to Bri tai n. The Mil u deer li ked the col, wet weather i n England and thei r num ber i ncreased year by year. As a resul t, when i n 1985 the government of Chi na wanted to rei ntroduce the Mi l u deer, the Duke of Bedford was happy to hel p. The fi rst deer cam e back to Chi na to the Nanhaizi Mi l u Park 20 kil ometers south of Beiji ng and the centre i n Dafeng, Ji ngsu Provi nce. The deer centainl y seem happy to be back i n Chi na because thei r num bers have grown rapi dl y. There are now so many of them that a new park has been opened for them i n Hebei Provi nce. At the m om ent the Mi l u deer li ve i n centres where they are bei ng wel l protected and care for . It is hoped that one day there wil be enough ani m al s to l et them li ve i n the wi l d agai n. So Bri tai n hel ped Chi na by bringi ng back an anim al that had di sappeared from i ts hom el and. This i s a good exam ple of fri endshi p and understandi ng between these two countri es. Unit 5 The band that wasn’t H ave you ever wanted to be part of a band as a fam ous si nger or m usi ci ans? H ave you ever dream ed of pl ayi ng i n front of thousands of peopl e at a concert, at whi ch everyone i s cl appi ng and appreci ati ng your m usi c? Do you si ng Karaoke and pretend you are a fam ous si nger l ike Song Zuyi ng or Li u H uan? To be honest, a l ot of peopl e attach great im portance to bei ng ri ch and fam ous. But just now do peopl e form a band? Many m usi ci ans m eet and form a band because they l i ke to write and pl ay their own musi c. They may start as a group of hi ghschool students, for whom practi si ng thei r musi c i n som eone’s house i s the fi rst step to fam e. Som etim es they m ay pl ay to passersby i n the street or subway so that they can earn som e extra m oney for them selves or to pay for thei r i nstrum ents. Later they m ay gi ve performances i n pubs or clubs, for whi ch they are pai d i n cash. O f course they hope to make records i n a studi o and sel m il i ons of copi es to be e m il i onai res! H owever, there was one band that started i n a di fferent way. It was cal ed the Monkees and began as a TV show. The m usi ci ans were to pl ay jokes on each other as wel l as pl ay m usi c, most of whi ch was based l oosel y on the Beatl es. The TV ani zer had pl anned to fi nd four m usi ci ans who coul d act as wel as si ng. They put an adverti sem ent i n a newspaper l ooki ng for rock musi ci ans, but they coul d onl y fi nd one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three m em bers of theband. As som e of these actors coul d not sing wel l enough, they had to rel y on other m usi ci ans to hel p them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. Anyhow their perform ances were humorous enough to be copi ed by other groups. They were so popul ar that thei r fans form ed clubs i n order to get m ore fami li ar wi th them . Each week on TV, the Monkees woul d pl ay and si ng songs wri tten by other m usi ci ans. H owever, after a year or so i n whi ch they becam e m ore seri ous about thei r work, the Monkees started to pl ay and sing thei r own songs li ke a real band. Then they produced thei r own records and started touri ng and pl ayi ng thei r own m usi c. In the USA they becam e even more popular than the Beatl es and sol d even m ore records. The band broke up about 1970, but happil y they reuni ted i n the mi d1980s. They produced a new record i n 1996, wi th whi ch they cel ebrated thei r form er tim e as a real band. Freddy the frog（Ⅱ ） N ot long after Freddy and the band becam e fam ous, they vi sited Bri tai n on a bri ef tour. Fans showed thei r devoti on by wai ti ng for hours to get ti ckets for thei r concerts . Freddy was now qui te confi dent when he went i nto a concert hal . H e enjoyed si ngi ng and a