Spring Festival is the most celebrated festival in China. On that day and over the following two weeks, people greet each other. Streets and houses     1    (decorate)by many things of red color.

Spring Festival is a time for expressing gratefulness. Gratefulness is a Chinese virtue. A regular activity is offering sacrifice to the heaven and to the earth, and to ancestors. It is meant    2    (show)gratefulness to the origin of life.

Spring Festival is also a salute     3     another Chinese virtue, diligence(勤劳).We Chinese people believe that only with     4     (we) own hands can we create a happy and beautiful life. Some activities staged during Spring Festival     5     (most) reflect daily working scenes such as harvesting and fishing.

Spring Festival also calls for sharing,    6    value long kept by Chinese. As the old saying goes, good fortune should be shared, and misfortune be faced together. In some areas, people bring foods to a public place and have fun together by having games or    7     (perform).

As ware celebrating Spring Festival，the festival is getting more popular in the west.     8     (tradition)Chinese activities，such as the dragon dance and the Peking Opera, are performed as a fixed program，    9    (add) diversity to local culture. It indicates the trends of mutual (相互的)learning and harmonious coexistence(共存) between civilizations,     10     are expected to contribute to the building of a shared future for humankind.

3 . International Volunteer Day is a global celebration of volunteers.It takes place every year on December 5     1    (shine) a light on the effect of volunteer efforts everywhere.Many nations and governments hold    2    (variety) activities in this day.Volunteers are ones    3    make use of their own part-time time and participate in social service for no charge.They contribute a lot in the    4    (aspect) of rebuilding home,developing economy with promoting social civilization progressing etc.The Day    5    (encouragement) volunteers' deeds to develop at local,national and international levels.The Day is the time widely    6    (accept)by people to fight poverty,hunger,disease,environmental problems and discrimination against women.

The cultural form and explanation of a volunteer may change depending on circumstances,    7    the basic principle never changes:every individual can make a difference in society.Beyond    8    (help) to promote the greater good,volunteers enrich their own lives.As one volunteer once put    9    ,"I feel as though I am able to help in the world and use my skills.It allows me to    10    (real) feel as though I am part of the world community."