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Key words:?millennium celebrationVocabulary: chime/millennium/prospective/gala/countdown/fanfare/Kiribati/vietnam/hanoi/bangkok/egyptThe world had entered the 21st century.Here are some brief reports of “Happy New Millennium” celabrations.Now listen and enjoy.Supply the missing words.?1. The world is greeting the year 2000 with much celebration.The first nation to celebrate is Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean.?2. In China,President Jiang Zemin lit a fire to represent thousands of years of Chinese civilization.The traditional___Chinese New Year_____begins in February.?3. __Russia____covering two cotinents will have the world’s logest New Year celebrations.?4. Former__South_African__President Nelson Mandela says he is hoping for a safer and more caring world in the next century.The former President also said science has given the world new ways to meet the needs of world populationg.?5. Welcome from London.Welcom from the BBC World Service to the 21st century.The year 2000 has arrived in__Britain____when the chimes of London’s Big Ben signaled midnight.Huge crowds cheered as spectacular fireworks displays went along several kilometers of the Thames.?6. Welcome to the Pacific,Welcome to Millennium island.Very shortly we and the tiny Republic of Kiribati will take the world’s very first step into the year 2000.?7. __New_Zealand____is greeting the new millennium with fireworks and parties.As the clock stuck midnight,thousands of people braved rain showers to attend midnight celebration,fireworks and concerts.?8. __In_Australia____firework display lit up the sky over Sydney’s famous harbor of the stroke of midnight.Earlier,the new century began its 24-hour march around the globe in the tiny South Pacific island nation of Kiribati.?9. Joyous celebrations took place across __Asia_____ to celebrate the turn of the century and the start of the new millennium__In_Hongkong_______,tens of thousands people started the New Year at the race track,where a horse