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《新标准大学英语》 New Standard College English , III Unit 8: Active Reading (2), pp. 119-120 Chinese or Western, It’s a Time to Relax 1 It’s that time of the year when the world seems to be caught in a trance — the trance of end-of-year celebrations. End-of-year, I said. 2 The problem seems to be exactly that. Why should we in China refer to the week between December 24 and 31 as the end of the year when ours (according to the lunar calendar) is at least a mont