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Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. It 【小题1】(fall) on the last Friday in November. On Black Friday, stores open early and offer big sales. The most popular products are electronics because they are much cheaper than usual. For people 【小题2】 don’t want to line up outside the stores, online shopping is also a good choice. Most sellers post their ads (广告) in advance in order 【小题3】(get) more customers, while some 【小题4】(company) will wait until the last possible moment to create a big surprise.

Different countries have different table manners. 【小题1】 is polite in Asia may be extremely rude in Western 【小题2】 (country). For example, when you are in England you must not lift your soup plate to your mouth. This is very impolite. But this is 【小题3】 (complete) normal if you are in Japan. When 【小题4】 (drink) your soup, you can lift your plate to your mouth. Traditionally, 【小题5】 is the woman’s job to cook food and set the tables in Korean. The woman would sit behind her husband 【小题6】 (make) sure that he has everything 【小题7】 he needs for a pleasant meal. Normally in Western Europe, the host or hostess takes the first bite. The host begins after all food 【小题8】 (serve) and everyone is seated. It is impolite to reach over someone to pick 【小题9】 food or other items. However, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. Sometimes the Chinese host uses their chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate. This is 【小题10】 sign of politeness.

The day of February 2nd brings the most-watched weather forecast of the year because of a kind of little animal. Legend says that 【小题1】this morning, if a groundhog(土拨鼠)can see its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter. 【小题2】it cannot see its shadow, spring is on the way.

Since a groundhog hibernates for the winter, its 【小题3】(come)out of the ground is a natural sign of spring. Centuries ago, people in Europe watched for other hibernating animals 【小题4】signs of winter's end. Germans 【小题5】immigrated to Pennsylvania in the mid1800s began keeping an eye on the groundhog. The widespread population of the little animal made 【小题6】easy for them to forecast the weather.

【小题7】(origin), February 2 is a holiday called Candlemas Day(圣烛节). Early people believed that if the sun came out on Candlemas Day, winter 【小题8】(last)for six weeks more.

In the 1880s some friends in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, went into the woods on Candlemas Day to look for groundhogs. This outing became 【小题9】tradition, and a local newspaper editor nicknamed the seekers "the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club". 【小题10】(start)in 1887, the search became an official event centred on a groundhog called Punxsutawney Phil. The ceremony still takes place every year.