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New Year's Day is the first day of the year. In modern times, it is
1 1st. It is a time for looking
forward and wishing for a
2 year ahead. People welcome in the New Year on the
3 before. This is
called New Year's Eve. All over Britain there are parties, fireworks (烟火), singing and dancing, to ring
(鸣钟) out the Old Year and ring
4 the New Year.
In the
5 days, the New Year
6 with a special custom (习俗) called "first footing". It was supposed
to
7 good luck to people for the coming year. When January 1st started, people usually waited behind their
doors
8 a person with dark hair to
9 . The
10 carried a piece of coal (煤炭), some bread, some
11 and some green plants. These were all for good luck-the coal to make sure that the house would always be
12 , the bread to make sure everyone in the house would have enough food to
13 , money to make sure they
would have enough money, and the green plants to make sure that they had a
14 life. The visitor would then
take some dust (尘土) out of the house with him-that was saying
15 to the old year.
( )1. A. January ( )2. A. short ( )3. A. morning ( )4. A. in ( )5. A. modern ( )6. A. stopped ( )7. A. bring ( )8. A. to ( )9. A. leave ( )10. A. family ( )11. A. books ( )12. A. warm ( )13. A. pay ( )14. A. hard ( )15. A. goodbye |
B. February B. long B. afternoon B. out B. old B. finished B. buy B. in B. arrive B. children B. water B. cool B. sell B. poor B. thank you |
C. March C. busy C. night C. on C. new C. started C. give C. with C. wake C. father C. money C. cold C. eat C. short C. sorry |
D. December D. good D. week D. at D. right D. waited D. play D. for D. play D. visitor D. flowers D. hot D. drop D. long D. hello |