1) The contestants red tartan kilts for the competition last year. To invent/To choose/to throw/to resist
2) The competition in England every year.
To invent/To choose/to throw/to resist​

We decided to have a special celebration of Mother's Day. We thought it a fine idea. It made us realise how much Mother had done for us for years, and all the efforts and sacrifices that she had made for our sake. 
So we decided that we'd make it a great day, a holiday for all the family, and do everything we could to make Mother happy. Father decided to take a holiday from his office, so as to help in celebrating the day, and my sister Ann and I stayed home from college classes, and Mary and my brother Will stayed home from High School. 
It was our plan to make it a day just like Christmas or any big holiday, and so we decided to decorate the house with flowers. We asked Mother to do it, because she always does it. 
The two girls thought it would be a nice thing to dress in our best for such a big occasion, and so they both got new hats. Father had bought silk ties for himself and us boys. We were going to get Mother a new hat too, but it turned out that she liked her old hat better than a new one. 
After breakfast we decided that we would hire a motor car and take Mother for a beautiful drive away into the country. But on the very morning of the day we changed the plan a little bit. We all felt that it would be nicer to have a definite purpose. It turned out that Father had just got a new rod the day before, and he said that Mother could use it if she wanted to: in fact, he said it was practically for her, only Mother said she would rather watch him fish than fish herself. 
So we got everything arranged for the trip. Mother cut up some sandwiches and packed all up in a basket for us. 
When the car came to the door, it turned out that we couldn't all get in. Father said that he could stay at home and work in the garden. The girls said that Mother had only to say the word and they’d gladly stay t home and work. 
In the end it was decided that Mother would stay at home and have a lovely restful day round the house. It turned out anyway that Mother didn't care for fishing and also it was just a little bit cold and fresh out-of-doors, though it was lovely and sunny, and Father was afraid that Mother might take cold if she came. 
We had the loveliest day. Father and the boys fished, the girls met quite a lot of people. We all had a splendid time. 
It was quite late when we got back. We sat down to dinner. It was grand. When it was over all of us wanted to help clear the things up and wash the dishes, only Mother said that she would really much rather do it. 
When we all kissed Mother before going to bed, she said it had been the most wonderful day in her life and I think there were tears in her eyes.

Seals are very well adapted for accommodation in the cold seas. All their body, including, flippers and a short tail, is covered with the rough dense hair protecting an animal from ice water, snow, ice and the penetrating wind. Under skin all seals have quite thick grease layer.Seals near sea coast of moderate areas of the Northern hemisphere live. They never swim away far from coast and, sometimes, settle in the large rivers and fresh lakes. The area of their distribution lasts along coasts of Atlantic to border of polar ices and along the American and Far East coasts of the Pacific Ocean.These are, rather, small animals. With a length of a body of a male approximately in 1,5 m weight reaches 50 kg and changes within 50-150 kg seasonally. Female of approximately same sizes. Near the Pacific Ocean especially large race of seals lives. The head of them roundish, with a short neck, the muzzle which as if is a little chopped off eyes big, a trunk thickset. Color of coloring considerably varies from yellowish-gray with dark-brown spots to almost black with white spots of the wrong form. Teeth large, and canines are well developed. Nipples at females only one couple. On a face of a vibrissa with wavy edges.

Тюлени очень хорошо при к проживанию в холодных морях. Все их тело, в том числе, ласты и короткий хвост, покрыто грубым густым волосом, защищающим животное от ледяной воды, снега, льда и пронизывающего ветра. Под кожей у всех тюленей находится довольно толстый слой жира.Обитают тюлени вблизи морских берегов умеренных районов Северного полушария. Они никогда не заплывают далеко от берегов и, иногда, поселяются в крупных реках и пресных озерах. Ареал их распространения тянется вдоль побережий Атлантики до границы полярных льдов и вдоль Американского и Дальневосточного побережий Тихого океана.Это, сравнительно, мелкие животные. При длине тела самца примерно в 1,5 м. масса достигает 50 кг и изменяется в пределах 50-150 кг в зависимости от времени года. Самка примерно таких же размеров. В районе Тихого океана проживает особенно крупная раса тюленей. Голова у них округлая, с короткой шеей, морда как бы немного обрубленная, глаза большие, туловище коренастое. Цвет окраски значительно варьирует от желтовато-серого с темно-бурыми пятнами до почти черного с белыми пятнами неправильной формы. Зубы крупные, а клыки хорошо развиты. Сосков у самок только одна пара. На лице вибриссы с волнистыми краями.