1 . A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring festival. For this year's Spring Festival family dinner, my son has_______a table at the best restaurant in town, but I'm a little bit _______ about it. For me, it just won't feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out.

When I was a little boy, the dinner on the eve of Spring Festival was what I looked     forward to most. It was not only for the delicious food that we _______ got to eat, but for the_______to have our whole family gathered together. I would _______the house, listening to the adults chatting about their year. I'd get under my mother’s feet in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings. She'd _______ tokens(象征) in some dumplings: candies for a sweet life and peanuts (花生)for a long and healthy one. In the evening, all of us would sit around the table, _______ the food and being together again. We toasted each other, we _______, and the simple, homemade dishes tasted more delicious than anything cooked by a top chef.

I hope my children and their children will still _______ our memories of preparing the dinner together. To me, the________ is even more important than the dinner itself.