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In China the Spring Festival is the most important holiday. It falls on the first day of the first lunar month(阴历月).

Before the Spring Festival comes, people go out to buy things, ____41____ meat, chicken, fish, fruit, sweets and new clothes. They ____42__ their houses and decorate (装饰) them. The Chinese character “Fu” is a must. It is  ____43____ stuck (贴) upside down, which means “Fu comes”.

The celebrations begin on the eve of the lunar New Year. The family get ____44___ for a big dinner.

If a person is far from home, he will always ____45___ to get home for this big dinner. After the dinner, the __46____ family will sit together, chat and watch TV.

During the holidays, they go to visit relatives and friends and exchange New Year greetings. They sit around talking and eating candies, cakes and all kinds of delicious ___47____. Every family prepares ____48____ special. Each child will get money as New Year gift. People in the north of China often eat dumplings for breakfast. People in the ____49____ often eat “Niangao”, because “Niangao” means “ higher and higher one year ____50____ another”.

The celebrations last 15 days. It will come to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished.

(     )41. A. such as     B. so that      C. as         D. then

(     )42. A. clean      B. sell        C. buy         D. burn

(     )43. A. hard      B. usually     C. never       D. unlikely

(     )44. A. widely    B. away      C. together      D. well

(     ) 45. A. try       B. tries       C. tried         D. to try

(     ) 46 A. all of      B. whole     C. every        D. either

(     ) 47. A. food      B. clothes     C. colours      D. sports

(    ) 48. A. something     B. anything     C. nothing     D. everything

(     ) 49. A. southern       B. west        C. south       D. western

(     ) 50. A. at            B. in           C. before       D.  after