题目内容：

To celebrate Halloween, children dressed up in special clothes and went door-to-door for candy. We call it “trick-or-treating”. 1.

But some US cities have rules about who can go trick-or-treating. For example, in the cities of Meridian, Mississippi and South Carolina, kids above the age of 12 cannot go trick-or-treating.

Some people only think it’s stupid for older teens to go trick-or-treating. They see it as something that is just for young children. 2.They would prefer to go to a party with their friends instead.

I don’t quite remember when I stopped trick-or-treating. 3. So I guess these rules wouldn’t have bothered (困扰) me. But then again, I’m not sure if it’s “right” to stop older kids from trick-or-treating. Experts(专家) say that trick-or-treating has been welcomed in the US because it helped to cut down on teenage vandalism (破坏公物) in the past. 4.