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New Year’s Day is, of course, the first day of the year. It is a national holiday in most countries around the world. It is a time when families get together and celebrate with a meal. Many people make new plansfor the rest of the year. These plans are called New Year resolutions. People decide to lose weight, get fit, stop smoking, study English every day or save lots of money. I think most people are serious about these plans on January 1st, but then forget about them before the end of the week. Then one year later, it’sNew Year’s Day all over again and people make the same resolutions again. I guess people all around the world make the same kinds of plans. I guess they also break their resolutions at the same time.
新年當然是一年的第一天。在全世界的許多國家，新年都是全國性的假日。家人在這一天團聚，享用美味佳肴。許多人在這一天會制定全年計劃。人們把這些計劃稱之為新年愿望。人們下決心要減肥、強壯體魄、戒煙、每天學習英語或是存錢。我認為許多人都在這一天制定了認真的計劃，但是新年第一周還沒有結束，大部分人就忘得差不多了。一年之后又是新年，人們又制定了與前年一樣的計劃。我猜想全世界的人都有著相同的計劃。他們忘記計劃的時間也應該是相同的吧。
One thing I like about New Year’s Day are the TV programmes that look back at the previous year. They arelike highlights shows of the news. These always remind me how lucky I am because a lot of the news is about wars, famines, natural disasters, plane crashes and other terrible things. The shows also look back at the lives of people who died that year. Hmmm… That all sounds a bit depressing really. But then there are happier things, like the top sports and music stories. Another thing that happens on New Year’s Day is lists. The top ten movies of the year, the ten best sporting achievements of the year, etc. There is even a list for the top ten new English words of the year. Previous winners of this are the words ‘blog’ and ‘podcast’.
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