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Book3 Unit1 Festivals around the world Period 1 Reading Class: ________ Name: _________ Assessment: _________ 教师寄语：The early bird catches the worm. 捷足先登。 Learning aims points: Master the words, phrases and sentence patterns of this unit. Step 1. Read the words, expressions and texts of this unit. Step 2. Recite the following passage. An Interesting Festival The Agricultural Feast takes place after the Independence Day. It is not a worldwide celebration. Only Christians in Mexico look forward to its arrival for its religious origin: Long ago, humans’ ancestors were bad. They fooled and played tricks on each other and never kept their word. So God turned up and drowned all their crops. Humans starved day and night, weeping. In order to gain God’s forgiveness, a woman poet set off to see God. She admired God and kept apologizing. God was moved. With his permission, humans finally had good harvests again. So, to wipe sadness and remind themselves of the belief in God, people began the festival. On the festival, people gather in open air, such as playgrounds or parking lots, and energetically have fun with each other all night long, as though they were never tired. When a beauty dressed up in lovely clothing reads poems in memory of the poet, everyone holds their breath. Then, it is the custom that the bone of a rooster head is given to her as an award. Obviously, the story is not true, but the festival is interesting. 语法填空1. The most 1)____________(energy) and important festivals are the ones 2)________ look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. At the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give children lucky money 3)_______ red paper. 4)__________ are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. Some Western countries have very 5)_____________(excite) carnivals, 6)__________ take place forty days before Easter, usually 7)___________ February.