Unit4 holidays and fetivals
1) great changes _________________in china in the past 10 years.在最近十年里，中國發生了巨大的變化。2) a terrible traffic accident_________ last night. 昨晚發生了一次可怕的交通事故。3) the first world war _____________in 1914. 第一次世界大戰發生于19xx年。 homework 1. preview reading2. readingnian- the new year monster(origin and legends )nian in chinese only means ‘year’. however, it is widely accepted that the origin of this word comes from the mythical(神化的） monster that would come and terrorize(恐嚇） humans around the time of the new year. fierce（兇猛的） nian to destroy mankind. the emperor summoned（召集） a wise man to solve this problem. the wise man approached nian with a challenge. "why do you choose to kill and destroy the humans who are no match for your strength?" he asked. "prove your real power by destroying the other monsters of the earth."nian took up this challenge, and one year later, having destroyed all the monsters of the earth, he returned to mankind. however, the day he returned some children were playing with firecrackers（鞭炮）, and they noticed that nian was afraid of the noise. from then on, on each new year firecrackers and other fireworks are used to scare away （嚇跑）the last remaining monster of the earth - nian.