Every year, as Spring Festival draws near, most Chinese people will get excited

Every year, as Spring Festival draws near, mostChinese people will get excited to make preparation for the most importantfestival and make plan for the winter break. It is a little like Christmas inthe United States, but there are some differences between the two festivals.

Both the major Chinese and the major Western holidayscome during the cold season, and special food is expected. In westerncountries, cookies and cakes begin just after Thanksgiving in November and showup everywhere. Turkey, potatoes and other food come later. Similar thinghappens in China. Entering lunar December, most families will make shoppingplans for the coming big day and food is certainly one of the mostimportant things to be considered. At the end of the month, both parents ineach family will be very busy---the father is busy buying food while the motheris busy cooking.

A deeper similarity (相似处) istradition. Christmas, as the letters “Christ” suggests, began as a holiday tocelebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ. Many people pray (祈祷) on this day. In China, people living in cities ortowns, though they don’t plan to sow seeds（播种） thismonth, still celebrate on the big day for farmers.

Followers of both holidays are also different fromeach other. While Chinese people travel to the homes of elder relatives,Americans usually call or send cards. Westerners prefer Christmas carols tofireworks. In Christmas, many family gifts come together instead of one by one,since adults may have only one day free to celebrate.

But the most curious difference is about students.Chinese students going home for Spring Festival sometimes report that they getbored by the end of vacation, yet American students seldom get bored aroundChristmas and western New Year.

Not everyone enjoys classic holiday traditions.Students in western countries may get upset, as too much homework, travel orbad family relations may destroy the short holiday season. In China, more andmore college students choose to travel or work during the winter holidayinstead of going home to stay with their families. It’s against the traditionbut many people accept it.

1.What does “the coming big day” (Paragraph 2) referto?

A．Christmas                             B．ThanksgivingDay

C．the New Year’s Day                     D．the SpringFestival

2.The second and the third paragraphs mainly talkabout ________.

A．thesimilarities between Christmas and the Spring Festival

B．thedifferences between Christmas and the Spring Festival

C．thepreparations for Christmas and the Spring Festival

D．the historyof Christmas and the Spring Festival

3.What does the writer mainly want to tell us in thispassage?

A．Food indifferent festivals.

B．Differencesbetween two festivals.

C．Festivals inChina and western countries.

D．Traditionalcelebrations in different countries.

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1.D

2.A

3.B

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