词汇：

春节 the Spring Festival

大扫除 year-end household

拜年 pay a new year call

庙会 temple fair

挂年画 to hang out new year’s picture

守岁 to stay awake all night

大年初一 the first day of the first lunar month

贴春联 to put up antithetical couplets

糊窗花 to put up window paper-cuts

压岁钱 money given to children as a lunar new year gift

爆竹 firecracker

鞭炮 a string of small fire crackers

年夜饭 family reunion dinner on lunar new year

年糕 glutinous cake for new year

八宝饭 eight-treasure rice pudding

买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival;do Spring Festival shopping

红包 red packets

句型：

without/not so much as

例：Disappointed with her husband，Mary left home without so much as looking back at him.

only to find/see

例：He spent almost all his money to buy the hen which was said to be able to lay goldeggs, only to find it could not lay eggs at all.

It is undoubted that/There is no doubt that

例：There is no doubt that war can be avoided if we get down to peace talk.