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阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16--25的相应位置上。
As we know, birthdays mean only cakes, presents, and a sweet song--Happy Birthday to You when we think of it. . 16 , there are different birthday celebrations.
17 the west, many birthday traditions come from an old belief that bad spirits showed up on a person's birthday. Today, people still get together for birthday parties. But around the world, birthdays 18 (celebrate) in many different ways.
In North America, children get their noses 19 (cover) with butter on their birthdays. 20 butter is supposed to make children too slippery for bad 21 (lucky) to stick to them. Irish people lift birthday children upside down and hit them 22 (light) on the floor for every year of their age. Mexico also has a unique birthday tradition. A paper-made animal is filled 23 candy and toys and hung from the ceiling. The birthday child with his eyes covered then 24 (try) to hit the animal with a stick_____25___ it bursts open.
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21.luck 22.Lightly 23. with 24.tries 25. until