When is the Chinese Spring Festival usually celebrated?A. In March or April. B. In May or June.C. In January or February.

共用题干
What is Chinese New Year?
In many parts of Asia,nations follow the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world.______(46)Many nations including Vietnam and Korea celebrate the lunar New Year with festivals and special foods.The Chinese,however,have turned the celebration into an art form:a 15 day festival called the Spring Festival in China,although it is known to the rest of the world as Chinese New Year.
______(47)which is considered to be a particularly auspicious day.Children are given hong bao,lucky red envelopes full of money,and households exchange visits and gifts. Most celebrants at Chinese New Year wear red,which is a lucky color,and also refrain from reflecting on the past year and uttering unlucky words,as it is believed that the first day of the new year will determine your fortune in the months to come.
Chinese New Year continues with 15 days of celebration and auspicious days,including a day to welcome the god of wealth,a day to celebrate farming and produce,and days to celebrate friends and family. Friendships and family relationships are a very important part of Chinese New Year,______(48)Numerous lucky foods are served throughout the Chinese New Year festival,and after all that rich dining,the 13th day of the festival is set aside for eating rice and bitter greens to cleanse the palate. on the 15th day,the Chinese New Year celebration culminates with the Lantern Festival, which is traditionally held at night. During the Lantern Festival,hundreds of citizens flood the street with lanterns representing wealth,animals,historical figures,plants,and a variety of other things.______(49)The Lantern Festival ends with a burst of fireworks to celebrate the upcoming year while celebrants eat special round dumplings to celebrate unity.
In Vietnam,the new year festival is known as Tet Nguyen Dan,and is celebrated for seven days. Much like Chinese New Year,Tet is believed to be an especially auspicious period in Vietnam which will establish the fortunes of celebrants for the coming year.______(50)In Korea, the one day festival is known as Sol-nal,and is a time to reflect on ancestors and family.

______(47)
A: and a great deal of food and dinner invitations are exchanged as part of this tradition.
B: The lanterns are paraded through towns and cities throughout China,Taiwan,and parts of the world with large Chinese communities.
C: As a result,the year starts on a different day,usually in January or February by the Gregorian calendar.
D: Chinese New Year is the most important festival in Chinese culture.
E: Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first moon of the year.
F: Special foods are eaten and gifts are exchanged.

In which day is Halloween celebrated？( )

A.5 November
B.31 October
C.17 March
D.25 December

Questions 55-56 refer to the following e-mail.
To: Marketing Department
From: Federico Botella
Date: January9
Subject: Sales Meeting.
We need to postpone the sales meeting that I had arranged for January 15. I have a meeting
with a client in Cancun on January 14, and I was not able to get a flight back to Houston until January 16. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you. The meeting is now tentatively rescheduled for 9 A.M. on January 18 in the conference room.


When Mr. Botella can be in Houston?

A. January 15
B. January 14
C. January 16
D. January 18

根据以下材料，回答题
I had always known that the Chinese NewYear was different from our own but otherwise assumed that the way we Europeansdivided up the year was something in common. Quite recently, though, I foundout that there used to be some pretty dramatic differences. During the MiddleAges, the official start of the year varied enormously within Europe. In Spain,Portugal, Switzerland and Germany it began on Christmas Day, whereas it startedon the 1st March in Venice and the 21st in England. In Rome, it was at one timethe 25th January but then changed to the 25th March. In Russia the new yearcoincided with the spring equinox (春分).
If this isn′t complicated enough the Frenchused to start their official year from Easter day. Easter, as I am sure you allknow, is a moveable feast whose complicated calculation is quite a mystery tome. However, this French style of working out the beginning of the year led tosome years being as short as three hundred days while others could stretch tofour hundred with two spring times with one at each end!
With all these different dating systems inoperation you can imagine the enormous potential for confusion. This can createheadaches for students engaged in studying the period from original documentsas they can actually find somebody′s death being recorded months before theyare married and battles still being fought weeks after a peace agreement hadbeen signed! It would all depend on where the events had been recorded. As anactual example the student could easily get muddled (糊涂的) over the date of thefamous trial of the Knights Templar in Paris. According to records this longand complex trial ended in 1313 as the New Year didn′t officially start untilthe 7th April. Fortunately for all of us these differences were eventuallysolved. In December 1564 the French decided to start the New Year from the 1 stJanuary. The Russians adopted this new style of dating in 1725 and the Englisha further twenty-seven years later.

What used to be the most common start ofthe official year 查看材料

A.Christmas Day.
B.The Spring equinox.
C.1st January.
D.25th March,