2015年职称英语考试《卫生类》补全短文习题(10)
Some Unusual Celebrations
Some holidays are well-known all around the world.Among them are New Year's Eve celebrations.Also common are days in honor of love and friendship,like Valentine's Day.Each country has its own special holidays,too,often to mark important events in its schools,banks,and governments offices all close on days like these,____(46).A few of them are really very strange.
Of course,they are not strange to the people who celebrate them.Perhaps that is because the celebrations have long traditions.Consider April Fool's Day,for example.No one knows when or why it began.Today it is celebrated in many countries—France,England and Australia,among others.On this day,people play practical jokes ____(47).The ones who laugh are the ones playing the jokes.The people they got angry.Does celebrating this day make sense to you?
Day in Poland seems strange,too.On this day,it is traditional for boys to over the heads of girls.Here is the strangest part.They do it to girls they like.unusual celebrations take place in a single city or town.A holiday called La is celebrated in Bunol,Spain.Every year,in late August,big trucks carry more pounds of tomatoes into this little town._____(48).For two hours,streets throw tomatoes at each other.Everyone ends up red from head to marks the start of the Puck Fair,an Irish festival with a very unusual from the town of Killorglin go up into the mountains and catch a wild ____(49).
also some celebrations that are really strange.In the United States,person gets an idea for a new holiday and tries to get others to accept it.Public Sleeping Day? That one is on February 28.It may seem strange,fun than the one on February 9.____(50) of inventing a new holiday? If you do,then you will want to mark.That is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.
A.Some people have fun imaging new holidays.
B.That is supposed to be Toothache Day.
C.Then begins the world's biggest food fight.
D.They bring him back to town,put a crown on his head and make days.
E.Jokes are supposed to be funny,but these jokes do not make everything
F.Some of the days people celebrate,however,are less serious.
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