趣味閱讀

Do you often walk your pet（寵物）？ Alisa Selekh is a 10-year-old girl from Russia. She has some very cool pets a pack of wolves（狼）. Five years ago， Alisas father took the young wolves home. The girl quickly became friends with them. She sometimes rides the wolves like a horse. She plays with them in the grass and even shares a big kiss. What a brave（勇敢的）wolf rider！

你有寵物嗎？如果你的寵物是一頭狼，你會害怕嗎？瞧，這個勇敢的俄羅斯女孩正跟她的寵物狼一起玩耍，多溫馨啊！

別害怕，他們不是真老虎！那他們這是在做什么呢？

Be careful！ There are many tigers！ Well， the “tigers” are artists（藝術家）in Kerala， India. On Sept. 10， Onam， the biggest harvest （豐收） festival in Kerala， began. During the 10-day celebration （慶祝）， people wear new clothes and make their houses beautiful. Many artists play all kinds of shows. Tiger Dance is the most popular one. Artists paint themselves like tigers， and dance like theyre hunting （狩獵）. They do this to remember the hunters from the past.

“抓緊了，熊寶貝們。”熊媽媽要帶熊寶貝們去干嗎呀？

節禮日

大概沒幾個人不知道12月25日是圣誕節，但有多少人知道12月26日也是一個重要的節日呢？你知道嗎？

Boxing Day is on December 26th， the day after Christmas， and is celebrated（慶祝） in Great Britain and in most areas settled（移民于）by the English （the U.S. is an exception）， including（包括）Canada， Australia， and New Zealand.

Traditionally， Boxing Day is a day when families get together. It is a day of watching sports on playing board games with the family. In the past， hunting（狩獵）was one of the favourite activities on this day. People usually went hunting for wrens（鷦鷯）or foxes.

It is unlucky to kill a wren on any day other than Boxing Day. Groups of young boys known as “Wren boys（鷦鷯男孩）” would hunt a wren and then tie the dead bird to the top of a pole（桿） decorated（裝飾） with holly sprigs（冬青樹的枝條）and ribbons（絲帶）. With blackened faces， the group would sing at houses in hopes of receiving coins， gifts or food.

Those that gave money to the boys would receive a feather from the wren as thanks. The collected money was then used to host a village dance（鄉村舞會）.

Today， Boxing Day is spent with family and friends with lots of food and sharing of friendship and love. Government buildings and small businesses are closed but the malls are open — Shopping is a popular Boxing Day activity， and the malls are usually filled with people taking advantage of（利用）after-Christmas bargains（便宜貨）.