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I. Supply the missing paragraph. (20%)
The following passage is incomplete with the conclusion missing. Study the passage carefully and write the paragraph in no more than 100 words. Make sure your tone and the vocabulary you use are in unity with the passage provided.
Celebrating the Spring Festival
Having over three-thousand-year history and unique oriental culture, China celebrates the grandest traditional festival —— the Spring Festival —— in the most impressive way. The celebration, which lasts about 20 days, culminates typical Chinese rituals and customs. Though different regions may display their local color, this national festival features one thing: welcoming a fresh start in the new year with family reunion over a big feast.
The twenty-third day of the last lunar month, termed “xiao nian”, opens the prelude of the festival. Entering this day, the whole nation is intoxicated in the festival spirit with every family bustling about the preparation. Shopping characterizes this stage. Chicken, meat, fish and eggs are indispensable; fresh vegetable and fruit of virtually every kind, including delicacies they cannot afford in other seasons, find their way to all shopping lists of every household, not to mention the impulse buying created by the wide range of attractive items on display. The purchase of food items in large quantities is necessary as they are supposed to last the entire festival period. As the New Year’s Eve approaches, homemakers prepare steamed buns, fried dough twists, cakes with jujubes as well as fillings for dumplings.
To celebrate the new year, everything should put on a new look. Thorough cleaning of the house, which has been going on for some time, must be completed on the last day of the last lunar month. The final dusting rids the house of the old and new decoration follows. In addition to colored lights and ribbons, many families stick the spring festival couplets on their door frames, inviting happiness and wealth of the coming year.
At noon, family members get together, drinking and chattering heartily over a sumptuous feast. Among other delicious courses on the table, fish is a must, a token of food surplus in the coming year.
Glimmering lights add to the excitement of the New Year’s Eve. Making dumplings and letting off firecrackers are customary programs. The former activity is not reserved for the housewife only, but involves several other members of the family. Thus it takes on a special meaning of harmony within the family. It is said the deafening firecrackers can frighten and drive away all evils. Towards midnight, all sounds are drowned by explosions of firecrackers and the sky turns gorgeously red. Accompanied by cheers and twelve tolls, the New Year comes. Family members exchange warm wishes, and the elderly give the young giftmoney wrapped in red paper. This occasion is so cherished that many, expecting to be the first to greet others, stay up the whole night.
Starting from the New Year’s day, many streets are crowded with folk shows. Gaily decorated dragons of impressive size coil or swing to the accompaniment of drums. Lions amaze spectators with acrobatics like standing up on hind legs and doing somersaults. Amateur performers in high spirits act out folk tales, legends and myths.
Even though the holiday is officially over on the fifth day of the first month when people return to work, the celebration does not end completely until the fifteenth day. To mark the occasion, people usually eat “yuan xiao”, sweet balls made of sticky rice flour, meaning safety and sweetness of life. Characteristically, people admire beautifully decorated lanterns which seem to warm up the cold air. In the northern part of China, in the City of Ha’erbin, for example, people take the advantage of the cold winter by building ice and snow sculptures inlaid with lights of various colors. In the south, dragon lantern dance and dragonboat regatta are performed. These activities bring the Festival to another climax and announce the end of the holiday season.
II. Write an outline. (20%)
Read the following passage carefully and compose a “sentence outline” for it.
