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1、萬圣節(jié)南瓜聽力材料：萬圣節(jié)即將到來南瓜巨大Pumpkins Are Huge As Halloween ApproachesThis is Whats Trending Today:October might seem to be pumpkin month in the U.S. The holiday of Halloween es on October 31.Americans around the country are already using social media to show off their pumpkin growing and carving skills. Pu

2、mpkins are round, orange fruits related to squashes and gourds.People use theirflesh and seeds for food, but they are also popular decorations in the fall. In the weeks before Halloween, people like to carve faces and other decorations into pumpkins.Halloween is a popular holiday where American chil

3、dren dress incostumes and go from home to home asking for candy.It is called “Trick-or-Treating.”Two big pumpkins recently made headlines in the U.S. A farmer in the northeastern state of Rhode Island broke the record for the largest pumpkin ever grown in North America. Richard Wallaces pumpkin weig

4、hed 1,026 kilograms.It broke his sons record from 20_.Ron Wallaces pumpkin only weighed 1,011 kilograms last year. A schoolteacher in the northwestern state of Washington brought her large pumpkin to an event in California.Her pumpkin was the chion, weighing 866 kilograms. It turns out that Cindy To

5、becks pumpkin grew from one of the seeds from Ron Wallaces pumpkin from 20_. While those pumpkins are large, they are still not the largest in the world. According to the website BigPumpkins., Richard Wallaces pumpkin is only the second-heaviest pumpkin of the year.A man in Belgium produced a pumpki

6、n that weighed almost 1,20_kilograms. Smithsonian magazine wrote a story about people who try to grow large pumpkins.In 35 years, the size of record pumpkins has grown from about 225 kilograms to over 1,000 kilograms. Pumpkin farmers trying to grow record fruits are taking the seeds of chion pumpkins from one year and breeding them with other large p