要求：1）描述节日1和节日2并自主选择节日3进行介绍，包括节日

名称、时间、美食、活动方式及意义等；

2）语言通顺,要点齐全，意思连贯，条理清楚，书写规范。

Dear John,

    Glad to receive your email. You asked me about festivals in China. Let me introduce some important ones to you.

First of all, I want to introduce the Lantern Festival. It comes in January or February.

    Can you tell me something about the festivals in your country? I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours,

Zhang Ming

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— You'd better wait ________________ the rain stops.

    Thanksgiving Day was near. The first-grade teacher asked1students to draw a picture of something that they were thankful for. People celebrated the holiday2turkey( 火鸡) and other traditional food of the season. So, most of her students' pictures were about them.

    3, Peter drew a different kind of picture. Peter was a different kind of boy. He always looked sad. When asked to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew ay4. Other students were all very interested in the picture. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers feed5. Another thought it was the hand of a policeman, because the police (山)6 and care for people. Still others guessed it was the hand of God(上帝) ... The discussion went on until the teacher almost7the young artist.

    During the break, all children ran out of the classroom except Peter.  The teacher came to Peter's 8 , bent(弯腰) down, and asked him whose hand it was. The little boy9and said in a low voice, "It's yours, teacher.

    She remembered the times she took his hand and walked with him here and there. She10said, "Take my hand, Peter. Let's go outside. Let me show you how to use your pencil. "Peter was very grateful to his teacher.

The most interesting festivals around the world

    Imagine moving to a new country. There you know almost no one and you don't speak the language. Eighty years ago, my grandmother, Jean Rizzi, did just that.

    Like so many immigrants from Europe, her first stop in America was Ellis Island, in New York. The immigration station on Ellis Island opened 125 years ago. From 1892 to 1954, over 12 million foreigners entered America through Ellis Island.

    My grandmother's journey started near Naples, Italy. Her father got a job in New York years earlier. After he saved enough money, he sent for his family to join him. In November 1936, his wife and three kids got on a ship to New York. At just 8 years old, my grandmother didn't know what to expect. "I was nervous," she says. "But I was also excited about finally getting to see my new home in big city."

    For nearly two weeks, they were at sea and couldn't see any land. They all stayed in one small room on the boat.  When the boat arrived at Ellis Island, my grandmother thought the journey was over. But she and her family still had to be examined by doctors. Finally, they were off to their new home in Queens, New York. My grandmother still lives there.

    Ellis Island is now a popular tourist attraction in New York. More than 3 million people visit it each year. To immigrants like my grandmother, the island is a symbol of freedom and the American dream.