词汇：

　　春节 the Spring Festival

　　大扫除 year-end household

　　拜年 pay a new year call

　　庙会 temple fair

　　挂年画 to hang out new year’s picture

　　守岁 to stay awake all night

　　大年初一 the first day of the first lunar month

　　贴春联 to put up antithetical couplets

　　糊窗花 to put up window paper-cuts

　　压岁钱 money given to children as a lunar new year gift

　　爆竹 firecracker

　　鞭炮 a string of small fire crackers

　　年夜饭 family reunion dinner on lunar new year

　　年糕 glutinous cake for new year

　　八宝饭 eight-treasure rice pudding

　　买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival;do Spring Festival shopping

　　红包 red packets

　　句型：

　　without/not so much as

　　例：Disappointed with her husband，Mary left home without so much as looking back at him.

　　only to find/see

　　例：He spent almost all his money to buy the hen which was said to be able to lay goldeggs, only to find it could not lay eggs at all.

　　It is undoubted that/There is no doubt that

　　例：There is no doubt that war can be avoided if we get down to peace talk.