SEE/ YOU / SOON.C. READING

8. See/ you / soon.

C. READING: I.

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers

each of the questions

about it.

Different cultures have different ways of celebrating the new year. Most of these customs are observed to bring

good luck.

On New Year’s Eve in Mexico, people wait for the clocks to strike midnight. At the first sound of the bells,

people begin to eat grapes. They must eat 12 grapes before the bells ring 12 times.

In the South of the United States, people eat black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. Some people think you have to

eat 365 peas to have good luck every day of the new year.

In Greece, people throw old things such as plates, glasses, and even furniture out of the window on New Year’s

Day.

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