Having stepped into January of 2009, Spring Festival is waving at us. Have you planned what to do on lunar New Year’s eve?

       Whatever your plan, please don’t forget to include your family, because Spring Festival is a time for family activities.

       In most children’s eyes, Spring Festival means delicious food, new clothes, pocket money   and sleepless nights with carnivals. According to Chinese tradition ,however, it is more a time for family reunions.

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    Ahead of the feast ,millions of Chinese are on their way to go back home, despite cold weather and long journeys. Even traditional Spring Festival foods ,like jiaozi ,are associated with reunions.

During the past 24 years, watching the CCTV annual Spring Festival Eve Variety Show has been popular.At 8:00 on lunar New Year’s eve, families gather in front of the TV ,watching ,chatting and waiting for the lunar New Year’s arrival.

Although in recent years, more and more people have found the show boring, most of them still watch it and give their opinions afterwards. Much more than a TV programme, the show brings the whole family together and offers them a good topic for conversation.

Perhaps that’s why many Chinese living abroad are eager to see the show online. It helps make them less homesick at the big moment by sharing the fun with their fellow countrymen.

       Now China’s most important festival is drawing near. Cheer up and makes your plans for family activities, If you don’t like watching the show, try other fun games like playing cards and enjoying DVDs alongside your parents and relatives. With family member getting together, anything could be extremely sweet.

1．According to the passage in most children’s eyes, Spring Festival means the following except           .

       A．new clothes and delicious food              B．sleepless nights with carnivals

       C．pocket money and new clothes             D．seeing the SFEVS online

2．Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

       A．Seeing t he SFEVS is an important form of enjoying the Spring festival.

       B．Chinese living abroad are more homesick in the Spring Festival.

       C．SFEVS is becoming more and more popular in the Spring Festival.

       D．people now have many more ways to enjoy the Spring Festival.

3．Which of the following best shows the underlined sentence’s meaning?

       A．SFEVS offers interesting programmes. What’s more, it offers and opportunity for the family reunions.

       B．Only during the period of SFEVS can the family  have opportunity to see programmes together.

       C．The family have more than one programme to see in the Spring Festival and all the programmes offer them a good topic for conversation.

       D．The whole family take full advantage of the period of SFEVS to talk about many topics they are interested in.

4．The best title of the passage is          .

       A．New Year Festival is time for fun          

       B．New Year Festival is family time

       C．2009, Spring Festival is approaching     

       D．Find available ways to enjoy New Year Festival