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1、最新万圣节南瓜【听力材料：万圣节即将到来南瓜巨大】英语听力网权威发布听力材料：万圣节即将到来南瓜巨大，更多听力材料相关信息请访问英语听力网。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 comes on October 31. Americans around the country are already using social media to s

2、how off their pumpkin growing and carving skills.Pumpkins 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

3、. Halloween is a popular holiday where American children 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 g

4、rown in North America.Richard Wallaces pumpkin weighed 1,026 kilograms. It broke his sons record from 2015. 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 cha

5、mpion, weighing 866 kilograms.It turns out that Cindy Tobecks pumpkin grew from one of the seeds from Ron Wallaces pumpkin from 2015.While those pumpkins are large, they are still not the largest in the world.According to the website BigP, Richard Wallaces pumpkin is only the second-heaviest pumpkin

6、 of the year. A man in Belgium produced a pumpkin that weighed almost 1,200 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 champion pumpkins from one year and breeding them with other large pumpkins.But people are not just growing pumpkins. They are carving them, too.One Twit第 3 页 共 3 页