—Really? It's hard to believe. He has never worked hard.

—He has gone to Xiamen ____________business.

    The Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals in China. During the festival, Chinese people have many activities. They paste Spring Festival Couplets (春联) , greet the New Year and say goodbye to the old year. On the first day of the Spring Festival, people hang out, wearing new clothes. Nowadays, children get red packets from their parents and their relatives. It is a good time for people to visit relatives and friends. More importantly, the Spring Festival is celebrated not only in China but also in other parts of the world.

    The Spring Festival was celebrated in the UK from 1980. Every New Year, people also get together and have lots of activities. They sing songs or watch movies with friends in the cinema. Besides, the Spring Festival has become a key time for Chinese living in the US. They join in a large evening party to welcome the traditional New Year. The Chinese New Year will be welcomed with three weeks of celebration across Australia. Thousands of people come to Sydney's Chinatown. They enjoy fireworks and lion dances. The family dinner on New Year's Eve is an important tradition for Chinese whether they were born in Singapore or moved there from China. They usually hold it at home because having it in a restaurant takes away the meaning of the tradition.

    Farmers in China began to have a new festival—Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festiva. in 2018. It is on the Autumn Equinox (秋分) , which is one of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar (农历) . It usually falls between September 22 and 24, during the country's agricultural (农业的) harvest season. The first ever Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival was held on September 23 in 2018.

    As we all know, China has the largest population all over the world. It was difficult to feed the largest population in the past. After reform and opening-up (改革开放) , with the development of modern agriculture, people's lives are getting better and better, and their living conditions have improved a lot. Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, the first festival created in China specially for farmers, shows the high attention of the central government to agriculture. It will greatly encourage farmers to farm and develop further modern agriculture. China has a long history of agriculture. Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, the cultural symbol, helps to show China's long farming culture to the world. It also connects the excellent traditional Chinese culture with modern civilization (文明) and improves the cultural self—confidence and national pride.

    Since the festival is created specially for farmers, they are encouraged to think of their own ways to celebrate harvest. Some activities are held across the country, but most of the celebrations will take place at a local level, which come from local customs. Also, local government usually hosts all kinds of activities for the festival, such as folk culture performances, food tasting and so on.

    Some people think the festival is the happiest time of a year, even better than the Spring Festival, because food gives people a sense of safety and hope. For other people, the harvest festival is a time to look back at the past and look forward to the future.

A: Hi, Lingling. This is Tony speaking. Are you getting ready for the Spring Festival?

B: We're quite busy now.

A:

B: I'm making big red lanterns.

A: Yes, I like them very much. They are very beautiful. Is your father helping you?

B: He's still at work.

A: What's your mother doing?

B: She is cleaning the house and putting things away.

A: Oh, I know you're busy preparing for the festival. Well, wish you a happy festival.

B:

—I learned that the sun____________ in the east.

    The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story1it.

    Long long ago, there was a young man named Niulang. One day, he2a beautiful girl—Zhinü, the Goddess's seventh daughter. She had just run away from the boring heaven (天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhinu soon3 Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. They lived a happy life on Earth and gave birth to two children. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and4Zhinü to return to heaven. With the help of his magic cow, Niulang flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very5. Taking out her hairpin (发簪) , the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate (分开) the two6. From then on, Niulang and Zhinü had to live7on the two sides of the river. However, their true love touched all the magpies (喜鹊) in the world, 8once a year tens of thousands of magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge ("the bridge of magpies") for the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed9to meet each year on the 7th day of the 7th lunar (农历的) month.

    That's10the Double Seventh Festival started. Today, it is a great day for Chinese young people to express their love.

—Somebody must have ____________it.