Some Unusual CelebrationsSome holidays are well - known allaround the world. Among them ar

Some Unusual Celebrations

Some holidays are well - known allaround the world. Among them are New Years Eve Celebrations. Also days arecommon in honor of love and friendship, like Valentine&39;s Day. Each country hasits own special holidays too, to mark important events in its history.

Schools, banks, and government officesall close on days like these.______(46)A few of them are really very strange.

Of course, they are not strange to thepeople who celebrate them. Perhaps that is because the celebrations have longtraditions. Consider April Fool&39;s Day, for example. No one knows when or why itbegan. Today it is celebrated in many countries—France, England, and Australia,etc. On this day, people play practical jokes.______(47)The ones who laugh arethe ones playing the jokes. The people they fool often get angry. Doescelebrating this day make sense to you？

Dyngus Day in Poland seems strange,too. On this day, it is traditional for boys to pour water over the heads ofgirls. Here is the strangest part: they do it to girls they like.

Other unusual celebrations take placein a single city or town. A holiday called La Toma-tina is celebrated in Bunol,Spain. Every year, in late August, big trucks carry more than 200,000 pounds oftomatoes into this little town.______(48)For two hours, people in the streetsthrow tomatoes at each other. Everyone ends up red from head to toe.

August 10 marks the start of the PuckFair, an Irish festival with a very unusual tradition.

People from the town of Killorglin goup into the mountains and. catch a wild goat. ______(49)

There are also some celebrations thatare really strange. In the United States, sometimes one person gets an idea fora new holiday and tries to get others to accept it. Whose idea was PublicSleeping Day？ That one is on February 28. It may seem strange, but it soundslike more fun than the one on February 9.______(50)

Do you like the idea of inventing anew holiday？ If you do, then you will want to mark March 26 on your calendar.That is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.

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A. They bring him back to town, put a crown on hishead, and make him king for three days.B. Some of the days people celebrate, however, areless serious.C. That is supposed to be Toothache Day.D. Then begins the world&39;s biggest food fight.E. Some people have fun imagining new holidays.F. Jokes are supposed to be funny, but these jokesdo not make everyone laugh.

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