Cultures

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  1. 4. ( )is the drink trumpeting the beginning of the day, and it sometimes replaces people’s breakfast.
  2. 8. The origin of modern American ( )can be traced to the Texas chuck wagon born during the post-Civil War cattle boom. The need to feed and care for crews of cowhands resulted in the invention of the wagon.
  3. 10. The expression ( ) is used for a girl’s 16th birthday in America and Canada. The 16th birthday is a celebration of womanhood and marks the end of a girl’s childhood.
  4. 12. ( ) is a nationwide movement, involving college and high school students t more than 150 schools across the country. They raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in their community.
  5. 13. ( )'s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture on or around March 17th. It celebrates St.Patric, one of Ireland’s patron saints, who helped to introduce Christianity to Ireland by preaching during the fifth century.
  6. 16. One of the premier Christmas events in Australia is Carols by Candlelight on Christmas Eve, where people gather in parks and sing all their favorite ( ) together by candlelight.
  7. 17. ( ) is known to have begun with some Jamaican DJs living in the Bronx neighborhood of New York in the 1970s. These DJs would get up on stage and rally the crowd with encouragements in a spectacle known as “toasting”. Over time, toasting became longer and more complex, similar to spoken word poetry, and this evolved into rap.
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  1. 1. ( )is a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is a private detective in London who solves crimes using his keen observation, deductive reasoning, and forensic skills. He is known for his iconic deerstalker hat, pipe, and magnifying glass. His assistant Dr. John Watson narrates most of the stories.
  2. 2. ( )Day is a national holiday in Canada and the United States celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. People get together with family and friends to give thanks for their many blessing through the year.
  3. 3. The most famous British tea custom might be ( ). During the 1880s upper-class women would change into long dresses, gloves and hats for their tea catered for in the drawing room.
  4. 5. New Zealanders are called ( ). It is the national bird and a major symbol of our country. New Zealanders are proud of their national identity.
  5. 6. Three and a half centuries later, ( )underlies American society. Volunteering, because it is so pervasive, often goes unrecognized. Most Americans probably never consider the role of volunteerism in their day-to-day lives.
  6. 7. ( )Day is on the 26th of December and is a national bank holiday or public holiday in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Ireland. It has been celebrated by spending time with family and friends and eating all the leftovers from Christmas Day.
  7. 9. (A) Both models of multicultural societies have contradictory aspects: in a ( A ) there is no cultural diversity and sometimes differences are not respected; in a ( B ) cultures do not mix at all.
  8. 11. The concept of a ( )originated in the U.K. in the 1960s and has long been considered to be a rite of passage. A gap year is a semester or year “off”, traditionally described as a break from academics.
  9. 13. (B) Both models of multicultural societies have contradictory aspects: in a ( A ) there is no cultural diversity and sometimes differences are not respected; in a ( B ) cultures do not mix at all.
  10. 14. On New Year’s Day, both Americans and Koreans prepare special foods. Americans enjoy a peas and rice dish called Hoppin’ John while Koreans have rice cake soup called ( ).
  11. 15. In New Zealand, February 6 is ( ) Day, a public holiday to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of ( ). The Treaty of ( ) is the country’s founding document signed by representatives of the Maori tribes and the British Crown in 1840.