北师大初中英语八年级上册 Unit6 22-1（MP3+LRC）

[00:00.00]UNIT 6

[00:11.94]Lesson 22

[00:17.65]Exercise 1.2

[00:20.11]Hi, Dave

[00:21.56]Thanks for your message.

[00:23.55]I'm having a great time here in Beijing.

[00:27.00]It's a very special time now

[00:29.52]because Chinese people are getting ready

[00:31.69]to celebrate the New Year.

[00:34.32]This is the most important festival of the year.

[00:37.80]It is a time when all the family gets together

[00:41.88]-just like Thanksgiving and Christmas

[00:44.01]in the United States.

[00:46.06]As I told you before,

[00:48.24]I'm staying with the Zhang family.

[00:51.36]When they are preparing for New Year,

[00:53.88]there are many special traditions

[00:56.43]and the Zhangs are following some of them.

[00:59.48]For example,right now,

[01:02.61]Mrs ,Zhang is cleaning the house.

[01:06.04]People clean their houses from top to bottom.

[01:10.49]Mr. Zhang is painting the window frames

[01:13.18]of the house with red paint.

[01:16.14]This is another tradition.

[01:18.79]I think red is supposed to be a lucky color.

[01:23.69]Lucy, the Zhangs' daughter,

[01:25.93]is writing out a short couplets

[01:28.52]to hang on the door.

[01:30.29]She's painting with black paint

[01:32.99]on pieces of red paper.

[01:36.12]The couplets are very short - only two lines.

[01:41.27]Chinese people hang these couplets

[01:43.63]on their front doors -

[01:45.76]one line on each side of the door.

[01:49.31]That's all for now.

[01:51.63]I'll write again in a few days.

[01:54.40]Take care.

[00:00.01]Josh

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