In addition, the whole family will eat dumplings together. On the first day of the Spring Festival, friends and relatives will call on each other to exchange greetings and wish each other the happiest New Year.Preparations for the Spring Festival or the Chinese New Year begin in the last few days of the last month of the old year, when houses are thoroughly cleaned, debts repaid, hair cut and new clothes purchased. Spring Festival couplets and big pictures of character “Fu” (meaning “happiness”) are displayed everywhere as a prayer for good luck.“Guo Nian”, meaning “passing the year” in Chinese, is the common name among the Chinese people for the Spring Festival. It actually means greeting the New Year. At midnight, at the turn of the old and new year, people usually let off firecrackers, which serves to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the New Year.Questions 1-5 are based on the passage you have just read.1. What is the Spring Festival a time for?A) Family reunions.B) Visits to friends.C) Good wishes to the coming year.D) All of the above.2. What do people do on the first day of the Spring Festival?A) They exchange greetings and wish each other a happy New Year.B) They call on each other and have happy talks.C) They exchange greetings and talks.D) They clean their houses and wish each other a happy New Year.3. What do people do to prepare for the Spring Festival?A) They clean the windows, repay the debts and buy some new clothes.B) They clean the houses, visit friends and buy some new clothes.C) They clean the houses, repay the debts and buy some new phones.D) They clean the houses, repay the debts and buy some new clothes.4. People post the Spring Festival couplets and the big pictures of character “Fu” ________.A) somewhereB) everywhereC) anywhereD) nowhere5. Why do people usually let off firecrackers at the turn of the old and new year?A) Because they want to drive away the dark night and to greet the arrival of the New Year.B) Because they want to drive away the evil spirits and to make the New Year happier.C) Because they want to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the New Year.D) Because they want to warmly welcome the arrival of the New Year.

The Spring Festival is a time for family reunions, for visits to friends, and for good wishes to the coming year. In addition, the whole family will eat dumplings together. On the first day of the Spring Festival, friends and relatives will call on each other to exchange greetings and wish each other the happiest New Year.

Preparations for the Spring Festival or the Chinese New Year begin in the last few days of the last month of the old year, when houses are thoroughly cleaned, debts repaid, hair cut and new clothes purchased. Spring Festival couplets and big pictures of character “Fu” (meaning “happiness”) are displayed everywhere as a prayer for good luck.

“Guo Nian”, meaning “passing the year” in Chinese, is the common name among the Chinese people for the Spring Festival. It actually means greeting the New Year. At midnight, at the turn of the old and new year, people usually let off firecrackers, which serves to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the New Year.

Questions 1-5 are based on the passage you have just read.

1. What is the Spring Festival a time for?
A) Family reunions.
B) Visits to friends.
C) Good wishes to the coming year.
D) All of the above.

2. What do people do on the first day of the Spring Festival?
A) They exchange greetings and wish each other a happy New Year.
B) They call on each other and have happy talks.
C) They exchange greetings and talks.
D) They clean their houses and wish each other a happy New Year.

3. What do people do to prepare for the Spring Festival?
A) They clean the windows, repay the debts and buy some new clothes.
B) They clean the houses, visit friends and buy some new clothes.
C) They clean the houses, repay the debts and buy some new phones.
D) They clean the houses, repay the debts and buy some new clothes.

4. People post the Spring Festival couplets and the big pictures of character “Fu” ________.
A) somewhere
B) everywhere
C) anywhere
D) nowhere

5. Why do people usually let off firecrackers at the turn of the old and new year?
A) Because they want to drive away the dark night and to greet the arrival of the New Year.
B) Because they want to drive away the evil spirits and to make the New Year happier.
C) Because they want to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the New Year.
D) Because they want to warmly welcome the arrival of the New Year.