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热考素材 跨文化交流 Chinese New Year is a very important holiday. It's a time for families to get together and enjoy big 1. m with special food. It's also a time for big celebrations.
The celebrations can take many forms. However, their purpose is the 2. s: to get rid of the bad luck from the old year and bring in the good 3. l of the new one.
4. D the festival, New York City has its CNY Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival. The 5. l show makes people very happy. More than 600,000 firecrackers start the celebration. They scare off all the evil spirits(恶灵) of the past year.
Dragons are a 6. s of good luck, health and power. So, it is common to see dragon dances in CNY celebrations. They drive 7. a evil spirits and bring in good luck.
The 8. b time to watch a dragon dance is during the Manchester Dragon Parade(曼彻斯特舞龙游行). It has a 175-foot dragon, and it 9. m people feel excited as it makes its way through the streets.
There are also big CNY parades in Los Angeles, Singapore, and Vancouver(温哥华). People fill the streets to enjoy them and 10. a the new year. Happy the Year of the Horse!

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本文主要介绍了春节是一个重要的节日，家人团聚欢庆，各地都有不同的庆祝形式，皆为辞旧迎新。纽约、曼彻斯特、洛杉矶和温哥华等多地会举办爆竹典礼、舞龙表演等活动，人们共庆马年新春。
1. meals 根据空格后的 special food 理解可知，此处谈论的是家人们聚集在一起，共享大餐，名词 meal 是“餐”的意思，需要用复数形式。
2. same 根据上下文理解可知，庆祝活动虽然形式多样，但是目的相同，都是摆脱旧年的厄运、迎来新年的好运，故填形容词 same，其意思为“相同的”。
3. luck 根据上下文理解可知，它们驱除旧年的厄运，带来新年的好运，此处固定短语 the good luck of 意为“……的好运”。
4. During 根据句意理解可知，此处介词短语 during the festival 是“在节日期间”的意思，注意句首单词的首字母需要大写。
5. lively 句意：生动的表演使人们很开心。形容词 lively 是“生动的，充满趣味的”的意思。
6. symbol 句意：龙是好运、健康和力量的象征。根据句意理解可知，此处用名词短语 a symbol of，意思为“……的象征”。
7. away 句意：它们驱赶恶灵，带来好运。根据后文bring in good luck 可知，它们带来好运，说明把恶灵都驱赶走了，此处用动词短语 drive away，意思为“驱赶”。
8. best 根据后面的 the Manchester Dragon Parade 理解可知，观看舞龙的绝佳时间是在曼彻斯特舞龙游行期间，此处谈论的是最佳时间，结合首字母提示，此处答案应该填形容词最高级 best。
9. makes 根据句意理解可知，此处用动词短语 make sb.do sth.，意思为“让某人做某事”，本句主语是 it，谓语动词需要用第三人称单数形式，故填 makes。
10. celebrate 句意：人们涌上街头，欣赏大游行，庆祝新年。根据上下文理解可知，人们涌上街头的目的是欣赏游行，共同庆祝新年，此处需要用动词 celebrate，意思为“庆祝”。