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The Chinese New Year begins on doors and walls. Spring couplets (春联) stand for people’s wishes for a happier life in the coming year. The tradition of sticking spring couplets on doors and walls during the Spring Festival can date back (追溯到) hundreds of years. The couplets are written on red paper. They hold great ______ during the Spring Festival. Although people are busy with all kinds of things before the Spring Festival, sticking couplets is always in the ______ place on the to-do list. And my mother would ask me to take some gifts to people who wrote us couplets. When they were writing, I would watch how they used the brush to create these wonderful works. Later when I was a little older, my parents ______ me to learn how to write couplets. I asked some elder people to teach me some skills. When learning from them, I became greatly interested in ______ culture. Every time when our family visited ______ during the Spring Festival, I was always the first ______ the lines of their couplets. The lines consisted of hopeful words. They ______ good wishes like “health” “wealth” and “longevity (长寿)”.
Nowadays as science and technology are developing ______, couplets are mainly produced by machines. We can easily buy all kinds of beautiful couplets on the streets. Though forms of making couplets ______ already, the best wishes that couplets express remain. The red paper and black words are used not only to write the couplets, but also to carry ______ love for traditional culture. They will never be forgotten.
1. importance 2. first 3. encouraged
4. traditional 5. relatives 6. to collect
7. expressed 8. rapidly 9. have changed
10. our

答案： 1. importance 2. first 3. encouraged 4. traditional 5. relatives 6. to collect 7. expressed 8. rapidly 9. have changed 10. our