2017-2018学年高中英语北师大版必修1文档：Unit 3 Section Ⅰ Warm-up amp； Lesson 1 — Pre-reading Word版含答案.docVIP

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the beginning of spring. Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree， however， that the word Nian， which in modern Chinese solely means year， was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey ?捕食? on people the night before the beginning of a new year.,One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day， an old man came to their rescue， offering to subdu