Celebrations, after the pattern of Thomas Alva Edison’s famous quote, often appear to be one percent inspiration and 99 percent preparation. People around the world take celebrating seriously.
Exactly when and where human beings began coming together in public to celebrate as a group is unknown and unknowable. Logic suggests that the first public celebrations were related to the patterns of existence.
Throughout history, across countries and cultures, the experience of a heartfelt celebration is always worth the often significant amount of time and money spent planning, preparing, organizing, and carrying out an event.
| A．There are records of religious parades and processions dating back to 3000 B.C. |
| B．This does not mean, however, that modern celebrations are not socially conscious. |
| C．Most of the city’s inhabitants would leave the city’s public areas to the crowds of tourists. |
| D．Parades and other public celebrations have also become important economic events worldwide. |
| E．Many of them are willing to go to great effort and expense to plan and attend public celebrations. |
| F．In hunter gatherer societies, success in the search for food and shelter must have triggered the need to celebrate together. |
| G．The priority given to celebrating seems to put it alongside food, shelter, love, and freedom as a fundamental need of humanity. |
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Every year, over 300,000 people attend the carnival celebration in Mazatlan in Mexico. It is a popular destination for carnival festivities along with other Mexico's famous port cities like Veracurz, Ensenada, and La Paz. If you're planning to visit Mexico to observe this famous celebration, it is advisable to book months before the actual date as boarding and lodging(食宿费)rise sharply during the holidays.
People from all walks of life actually participate in this yearly festive celebration. It has become a part of people's way of life both for Catholics (天主教徒)or non- Catholics. People in the US celebrating this tradition and some parts of South America throw confetti eggs(五彩蛋)to one another as part of the tradition's practice. This is believed to bring good luck to the person who' s hit by it.
Besides the above activities, masquerade (化妆)balls and rides that charge entrance fees are available. In the evening, a grand firework display awaits audience and participants.
During the last day of the celebration, South American countries such as Mexico conduct cultural awards including poetry contest and so on. The Clemencia Isaura Poetry recognizes and awards the person with the best unpublished work in Mexico.
If you are a partygoer and looking for the best event to be at... then this is the best party celebration you should participate in. South American countries are the best place to be at for this type of celebration including New Orleans in the US.
1. _______is the first place in the most - attended carnival celebrations.| A．Mexico. | B．Rio de Janerio. |
| C．New Orleans. | D．Sao Paulo. |
| A．reach there by plane. |
| B．bring more money with yourself. |
| C．book accommodations in advance. |
| D．visit Mexico's famous port cities. |
| A．walking in different ways. |
| B．having different interests in life. |
| C．coming from different parts of the city. |
| D．working in different occupations. |
| A．Throwing confetti eggs. | B．Poetry contests. |
| C．Masquerade balls. | D．A grand firework display. |
【推荐2】On the last day of each year, it has become a ceremony for large crowds to gather in the brightly lit chaos of New York’s Times Square to ring in new beginnings.
Over the past century, the shining ball has evolved from an iron and wood cage decorated with light bulbs to a colorful crystal object.
Though Manhattan had been partially lit by electricity since the early 1880s, half of the American homes were still lit by gas lights and candles until the 1920s.
| A．It seems you have time to change your life. |
| B．City officials banned fireworks after just a few years. |
| C．Last year, however, the Times Square ball dropped to empty streets. |
| D．Many people might wonder how this New Year’s Eve celebration started. |
| E．At 11:59 p.m. a shining ball drops down a pole, while attendees count down from 60. |
| F．Ochs was inspired by the Western Union Building, which dropped a time ball each day at noon. |
| G．The sight of a shining ball lowering down from the dark skies would have seemed fascinating. |
【推荐3】Spending Christmas in a foreign country can be a truly eye-opening experience, especially since it’s easy to believe that as a worldwide festival, most countries probably celebrate it in a fairly similar manner. Being from the UK, Christmas for me means spending time with family and friends, exchanging presents, eating and drinking, and, of course, hiding from the cold. In Colombia, however, Christmas is viewed much more as a time which devotes itself to religion.
With celebrations beginning on 7 December, Columbia is recognized as having the longest Christmas celebrations period in the world. The celebrations generally begin in the evening with the lighting of candles, either in the streets, parks or outside people’s homes. Cities are lit up by candles, as this day marks the beginning of the Christmas period. Although decorations have been up since early November, another tradition in Colombia is that during the nine days before Christmas, family members and friends meet up to pray, sing songs and share traditional foods at home.
Probably the biggest surprise for me has been the music people listen to during the Christmas period. At first, you could easily mistake these songs for the classic salsa, which is played all year round. However, after asking a Colombian if it really felt like Christmas music, they explained to me that the songs are loved more for the memories they symbolize than for the way they sound, and that Colombia has been through so many dark periods in history, it was important to hold on to the good memories of years gone past.
Being in a country like Colombia during this festive period has taught me that you don’t need to be religious to take part in these Christmas traditions.
1. What’s the authors opinion of Christmas?| A．It isn’t a global festival. | B．It isn’t a time for being alone. |
| C．It is mainly devoted to religion. | D．It’s celebrated only in some places. |
| A．It is celebrated in the same way as in the UK. |
| B．It is celebrated mainly as a religious festival. |
| C．It is celebrated for nine days or so. |
| D．It is celebrated with lanterns and fireworks. |
| A．Enjoy traditional foods. | B．Go to the church together. |
| C．Learn abut home decorations. | D．Have a one-month-long holiday. |
| A．they sound extremely wonderful |
| B．they express best wishes for the future |
| C．they represent good memories of the past |
| D．they have been passed down for generations |
