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The Spring Festival is coming. Steven and Bill are good friends; they meet at the street.
Steven: Hi, Bill.
Bill: Hi, Steven! Where're you going?
Steven: I'm going home to have supper. My parents have made dumplings.
Bill: Will you let off firecrackers this evening
Steven: Sure. My father bought lots of beautiful firecrackers
Bill: That's cool. My father bought many firecrackers, too.
Steven: I think we'll spend a very happy Spring Festival.
春节就要来了。史蒂文和比尔是一对好朋友，他们在街上相遇了。
史蒂文： 嗨，比尔。
比尔： 嗨，史蒂文。你去哪里？
史蒂文： 我准备回家吃晚饭。我父母包了饺子。
比尔： 今天晚上你会放鞭炮吗？
史蒂文： 当然啦。我爸爸买了很多漂亮的鞭炮。
比尔： 不错啊。我爸爸也买了很多鞭炮。
史蒂文： 我觉得我们会过一个开心的春节。
dumpling ['dʌmpliŋ] n. 饺子
firecracker ['faiəˌkrækə] n. 爆竹，鞭炮
let off 引发，引爆
1. Spring Festival is a major holiday in China. 在中国，春节是个很重要的节日。
2. Spring festival is a big holiday period. 春节是很长的假期。
3. We always spend Spring Festival in hometown. 我们总是在老家过春节。
4. Most Chinese people like the Spring Festival. 大部分中国人都喜欢春节。
5. More and more people go traveling during the Spring Festival. 春节出去旅行的人越来越多了。
6. How about going on a vacation next Spring Festival? 明年春节去旅游怎么样？
7. She has gone back home to celebrate the Spring Festival with her parents. 她回家和父母过年了。
8. I can get money from my relatives again! 我又可以得到亲戚们的压岁钱了。
9. What do you do during the Spring Festival? 春节期间你们干些什么？
10. Half a month before the Spring Festival, people have been already busy with all kinds of preparations. 早在春节前半个月左右，人们就开始忙碌着做各种准备。
11. Have you pasted the Spring Festival couplets up? 春联贴好了吗？
12. Spring Festival couplets are written on red paper. 春联是用红纸写的。
13. Chinese children like to buy many firecrackers before the Spring Festival. 中国孩子会在春节前买很多鞭炮。
14. Children like to shoot off firecrackers in the Spring Festival.孩子们喜欢在春节时放鞭炮。
15. People usually eat dumplings on Spring Festival. 春节，人们通常吃饺子。
16. The best meal is the dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve. 最好的一顿饭就是除夕的家宴。
17. Eating dumplings on the Spring Festival is a tradition in China. 在春节期间吃饺子是中国的一个传统。
18. It's an old custom to set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival. 春节的时候燃放炮竹，是个古老的民俗。
19. Can I go to set off firecrackers?我能去放鞭炮吗？
20. The ancients of China believed that firecrackers could frighten ghosts away. 古时候的中国人认为放鞭炮能吓跑鬼怪。
精悍对话，句句含金
A: Look! The street is much more colorful than usual.
B: Yeah. Because the Spring Festival is coming.
A：看，街道上比平日要亮丽很多。
B：是啊。因为春节就要到了。
Brag! 吹牛！
当他人说的事情你根本不相信，并认为对方是在吹牛时，就可以用" Brag! "来表达你的看法。
例：
——You know my father is a millionaire! 你知道吧，我爸爸是个百万富翁。
——Brag! I don't believe you. 吹什么牛啊！我才不相信你呢！