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“停课不停学”：2020 高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十五) Passage1 日本取消赏樱活动，武汉在线赏樱。 词数 377 建议阅读时间 5分钟 The people of Japan and millions of tourists should now be enjoyingthe start ofthecherryblossomviewing,orhanami, season. Its an extremely important time of year for the country, both economically andculturally. Traditionally friends and family get together, and for a new generation itsaperfect Instagram opportunity. But this year the coronavirus pandemic means events have been cancelled and foreign visitorsare stayingaway. KatsuhiroMiyamoto from KansaiUniversity highlightedthe financial importance ofhanami: Japanscherryblossom seasonhasverybig economic effectsevery year. He estimated that almost 8.5m tourists visited the country during the cherry blossom season betweenMarch andMay lastyear,bringing in some 650billion yen. Seijiro Takeshita from the University of Shizuoka underscored why the gatherings, at which peopleeat anddrink andmakemerry,are soimportanttotheJapaneseeconomy. We use an expression the wallet becomes loose, meaning people tend to have a very high propensity to spend. We have so much emotional attachment to this flower and the viewing season...It has a lot of cultural factors, a lot ofhistorical factorsbehind it,Professor Takeshita added ashe explained thewider significanceofthecherryblossom season. Thisyear though hanami events arebeing cancelled acrossthe country as authorities attempt to slowthe spreadofthecoronavirus. Last week the governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike urged people to not hold their traditional parties.At the same time Ms Koike made reference to the cultural importance of hanami as she saidthat itwaslike takinghugsaway from Italians. Professor Miyamoto expects such measures to tackle the pand