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1. At that time people would starve if food was difficult to find, _____________ (especial) during the cold winter months.2. Some festivals are held___________ (honor) the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, ___________ might return either to help or to do harm.3. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense __________ memory of their ancestors.4. On Halloween, children might play a trick ______those who don’t give them any sweets.5. In the USA, Columbus Day is in memory of the _______ (arrive) of Christopher Columbus in the New World.6. Halloween is now a children’s festival, _________ they can dress up and go to their neighbours’homes to ask for sweets.7. India has a _________ (nation) festival on October to honor Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India’s ___________ ( independent) from Britain.8. The most _________ (energy) and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the ing of spring.9. In European countries, on Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals, people will usually decorate churches and town halls _____flowers and fruit.10. On the Spring Festival people love to get ______ to eat, drink and have fun ______each other.11. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals, _____ take place forty days before Easter usually in February.12. Festivals let us enjoy life, be ________(pride) of our customs and ______( forget) our work for a little while.13. The country of Japan, ________(cover) with cherry tree flowers, looks as _______ it is covered with pink snow.14. Who took away my dictionary without_________(permit). 15. During the Spring Festival time the whole family _______e for dinner.16. Li Fang had been looking forward to _________(meet) Hu Jin all day, but she didn’t turn up.17. The day he had been looking forward to _______(e) at last. 18. A __________ ( drown) man will catch at a straw.19. You should ___________(apology) to him for what you said to him last night.20. Some people hold the _________ (believe) that buying c