
UNIT 8 CELEBRATIONS I. Fill in each blank of the sentences with one word from the box. preparations decorate celebrate excited popular wrapped represent influence traditional exchange 1. How do people ______ New Year in your country? 2. On the first days of Tet, people often visit relatives and friends to ______ New Year wishes. 3. Japanese usually ______ their houses with some small pine trees, which ______ constancy and longevity. 4. People believe that what they do on the first day of the year will ______ their luck during the whole year. 5. People usually make ______ for Tet severals weeks beforehand. 6. Tet is also the time for children to receive lucky money ______ in red envelopes. 7. Besides the ______ flowers for Tet such as peach flowers and apricot flowers, the kumquat trees are also ______ throughout the country. 8. Children are always ______ about the Tet holiday. II. If appropriate, replace the underlined words or phrases with one or ones. If it's not possible or unlikely, write No after the sentence. 1. I answer most of the questions, but had to miss out some very difficult questions. 2. The female violinists in the orchestra outnumber the male violinists by about three to one. 3. Traffic is light in most of the city, but there is heavy traffic near the football stadium. 4. The issue discussed at the meeting was an extremely complicated issue. 5. If you're making a cup of coffee, could you make a cup of coffee for me? 6. If you're buying a newspaper from the shop, could you get a newspaper for me? 7. He used to work for a finance company, but he moved to an insurance company. 8. 'Was it these earrings you wanted?' 'No, the earrings on the left of those, please?' 9. Many people are happy about the new road being built, but' there are some angry people, too. 10. Dave is really good at taking photos of old buildings. There's an excellent photo of a local church in
his office. 11. On one channel was a war film and on the other was a horror film, so I turned the TV off. 12. ‘Are these your shoes?' 'No, the blue shoes are mine.' 13. There are a lot of gloves here. Are these your gloves? 14. The damage to the car was a problem, of course, but an easily solved problem. 15. ’I’ll just clean my shoes before we go out.' 'Can you do my shoes, too, please?' III. Complete these sentences with someone, something, anyone, anything, no one, nothing, everyone, everything. 1. We arranged the meeting, but _______ came. 2. Janet Jones is _______ I rarely see these days. 3. She valued friendship more than _______ in the world. 4. I always get to work before _______ else. 5. While you are making dinner, I'll get on with _______ else. 6. _______ has changed. Everything is the same as it was. 7. I hope _______ will be comfortable here. We try to make each guest feel at home. 8. We don't think there's _______ wrong with her reading ability, 9. Hardly _______ turn up to the meeting. 10. I am not going to the party because I've got _______ to wear. 11. I thought I heard _______ knocking at the door. 12. _______ calls her Maggie, but her real name's Margaret. 13. The earthquake destroyed _______ within a 25-mile radius. 14. There was complete silence in the room. _______ said _______. 15. Sarah was upset about _______ and refused to talk to _______ IV. Find the mistakes in these sentences and correct them. 1. Has everyone seen Lucy recently? I haven't seen her every day. 2. He didn't want something to do with the arrangements for the party. 3. Normally I don't like wearing a scarf, but it was so cold I put it on,
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