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Some Unusual Celebrations

Some holidays are well-known all around the world. Among them are New Year's Eve celebrations. Also common are days in honor of love and friendship, like Valentine's Day. Each country has its own special holidays, too, often to mark important events In its history. Schools, banks, and government offices all close on days like these. _ (46) A few of them are really very strange.

Of course, they are not strange to the people who celebrate them. Perhaps that is because the celebrations have long traditions. Consider April Fool's Day, for example, No one knows when or why it began. Today it is celebrated in many countries-France, England, and Australia, among others. On this day, people play practical jokes. _ (47) The ones who laugh are the ones playing the jokes. The people they fool often get angry. Does celebrating this day make sense to you?

Dyngus Day in Poland seems strange, too. On this day, it is traditional for boys to pour water over the heads of girls. Here is the strangest part：They do it to girls they like. Other unusual celebrations take place in a single city or town. A holiday called La Tomatina is celebrated in Bunol, Spain. Every year, in late August, big trucks carry more than 200,000 pounds of tomatoes into this little town. (48) For two hours, people in the streets throw tomatoes at each other. Everyone ends up red from head to toe.

August 10 marks the start of the Puck Fair, an lrish festival with a very unusual tradition. People from the town of Killorglin go up into the mountains and catch a wild goat. (49)

There are also some celebrations that are really strange. In the United States, sometimes one person gets an idea for a new holiday and tries to get others to accept it. Whose idea was Public Sleeping Day? That one is on February 28. It may seem strange, but it sounds like more fun than the one on February9. (50)

Do you like the idea of inventing a new holiday? lf you do, then you will want to mark March 26 0n your calendar. That is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.

A. Some people have fun imagining new holidays.

B. That is supposed to be Toothache Day.

C. Then begins the world's biggest food fight.

D. They bring him back to town, put a crown on his head, and make him king for three days.

E. Jokes are supposed to be funny, but these jokes do not make everyone laugh.

F. Some of the days people celebrate, however, are less serious.

46 F 文章開頭先講到一些比較正統(tǒng)、嚴肅的節(jié)日，然后話鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，就開始講一些不那么嚴肅的節(jié)日了。注意選項中的 however 一詞，它表示了轉(zhuǎn)折。而后面的一句 A few of them are really very strange 也是一種提示。

47 E 幾個選項中和 joke 有關的這有 E 這一項。

48 C 空擋的后面一句說人們在大街上相互投擲西紅柿，是名副其實的 world's biggest food fight。

49 D 選項中的代詞 him 正好替代上面一句中講到的 goat (公羊)。

50 B 二月九日是牙疼日 (Toothache Day) ，公眾睡眠日(Public Sleeping Day) 總比牙疼日更有趣吧!

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