The culture that I grew up in has a delicious tradition — baking (烘焙) different types of cookies before Christmas. We prepare for days and then give them to people we ________.

I have a friend from a different ________ background. However, she didn’t have good chances to learn to bake in her busy life. When she heard that I was planning a baking day, she was super excited about learning something new. So I happily ________ to teach her how to bake my Christmas cookies that day.

We waited and waited, and a week before Christmas, it was ________ the baking day. We both imagined the beautiful and tasty cookies that we would make for our families, friends and neighbors!

However, the baking process was unexpectedly hard. The skills that I’d used countless times were completely ________ to a foreigner. On my own, I could finish baking all the cookies quickly and correctly. But this time until noon, our cookie boxes were still empty. I could feel my ________ rising “Will it be wiser if I give up teaching my friend and just let her take some cookies as gifts?” I wondered.

The thought above went away ________ I remembered how interested she was in my way of baking. To let her experience in person instead of just watching me, we decided to make ________ kinds of the cookies and to bake simpler ones. By the end of the second day, we had 20 beautiful gift boxes, each filled with mouth﹣watering cookies.

My friend couldn’t wait to share her great works ________ her family. Seeing how proud she was, I was doubly glad that I didn’t act on my thought to do everything ________ just because it would be easier. By teaching her how to make cookies in my way, she was given a chance to get closer to a different culture.

Spring Festival is Chinese New Year's Day._____ usually comes in   February.Sometimes it comes in January.Everyone in _____ likes Spring Festival very much.Li Lei usually helps his parents do some _____ and other housework to welcome this festival.They clean the _____ to sweep away bad luck.

On that day，people in China eat jiaozi，New Year cake and some other _____.They believe eating jiaozi and New Year cake can help them live _____.Li Lei likes New Year cake，_____ Wang Lin says jiaozi is better than New Year cake.Children usually get   _____ in red paper bags.They can buy what they want with the money.They also wear   _____ clothes on that day.It is said wearing new clothes can bring good luck.How ______ they are!