The festival celebrates the Dai Lunar New Year and lasts for three days. There are dragon races and fireworks displays on the first day and a fair on the second day. At the fair, young lovers throw love pouches to each other. The third day is the actual water­splashing day, people splash water on each other to wash away illnesses and bad luck and bring good luck for the coming year.

　　◆Losar

　　Losar is a Tibetan word for New Year. "Lo" means "year" and "sar" means "new". As the most popular festival among Tibetans, it is celebrated from the first day in the first month to the fifteenth day based on the traditional Tibetan calendar.

　　On the last day of the year, people clean their houses and prepare for the festival. On the first day of the New Year, Tibetan women usually wake up early at about 5 o'clock, and prepare for a special kind of barley wine for the family which have tsamba, brown sugar, and milk dregs. The whole family have to drink the wine in their beds and then continue to sleep, while the housewives sit in front of their windows, waiting for the sunrise. As soon as they see the sun rays in the east, they go to the well for the first bucket of water in the New Year. It is said that water in the well is the freshest and sweetest at this time and the family who get the lucky water earliest will be the most fortunate.

　　5．People eat yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival because ________.

　　A．it is the traditional food and has its symbolic meaning

　　B．it is delicious and easy to be made

　　C．it is sticky, round and sweet

　　D．it is made of rice flour

　　6．What can we know from Paragraph 2 about the word "fair"？

　　A．Young people splash water on each other at the fair.

　　B．It is the time when young people have meetings.

　　C．Young people find their lovers there.

　　D．Young people sing and dance there to celebrate the festival.

　　7．How many days does Tibetan Losar last?

　　A．2.　　　　　　　　　　B．3.

　　C．15. D．25.

　　8．The passage is mainly about ________.

　　A．the culture and custom in China

　　B．the reason why people celebrate festivals

　　C．several festivals in China

　　D．the history of three festivals in China

　　C

　　The Korean ethnic group is distributed mainly over the northeast of China, including Jilin Province, Liaoning Province and Heilongjiang Province. Other Korean people disseminate (散布) in some cities in other parts of China, such as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Korean ethnic group of China migrated from the Korean Peninsula (半岛) in the 17th century. They have their own language and characters.

　　Korean people develop agriculture and forestry, and they fish. They are well known for producing paddies (稻谷) and tobacco.

　　Korean people are good at singing and dancing. The men like wrestling and playing soccer, while the women play at seesaw and have a swing.

Korean people respect the elderly. Young people are not permitted to drink or smoke in front of an elderly person. They are not allowed to borrow fire from the elder when smoking, otherwise it would be regarded as a disrespectful act. When walking together, the young must follow the senior. If there is an emergency, the young needs to explain the reason to the senior. Upon meeting,