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sweethearts or friends.

● Feast of Dolls in Japan falls on March 2. It is observed there in honor of girls.

● Feast of Banners in Japan is on May 5. It is observed in honor of boys.

● May 5 is Dragon Boat Festival in China and is held according to the Chinese Lunar

Calendar. People eat rice cakes and hold dragon boat races to commemorate the ancient scholar ---- statesman Qu Yuan.

● August 15 is Mid-Autumn Festival in China. It is held according to the Chinese Lunar

Calendar. People eat moon cakes while looking at the bright full moon.

● April Fools’ Day is on April 1. In some European countries and in North America, people

play practical jokes or tricks on each other and those unsuspecting victims are called April fools.

● July 14 is Bastille Day. It is an annual holiday in France to commemorate the fall of the

Bastille.

● December 26 is Boxing Day in Britain, Canada, and the U. S. It is observed as a holiday

from the custom of giving Christmas boxes to the tradesmen and staff on this day.

● May Day, known as International Labor Day, is a public holiday in many European

countries, the Canal Zone, Philippine islands, and the Latin American countries. It falls on May 1, and is celebrated especially by the working people.

● November 25 is Saint Catherine's Day. The French celebrate this playful holiday in honor

of Saint Catherine, the patroness of spinsters, or unmarried women. The day is observed mainly by the Parisian sewing girls who are over 25 and unmarried. It is a day for fun, parades, dances, and receptions.

● March 17 is Saint Patrick's Day. This is Ireland's greatest national holiday. The date marks

the anniversary of the death of the missionary who became the patron saint of Ireland. Green is the color of the day.

● Mother's Day is a movable holiday. It falls on the 2nd Sunday in May. Mother's Day was

founded by missing Anna M. Jarvis of Philadelphia. It is now observed in countries all around the world, including England, France, Sweden, Denmark, India, china, and Mexico.

Part II Section A A1 1. changed/ few / bored / rainy 2. museum directors / what they

are seeing 3. Provide fun / feel at home

A2 electricity / pass / body 17th century instruments / music

put on costumes / Stockholm Opera bone-by-bone reproduction / stegosaurus

A3 I. new audiences / the young / the less educated members

II. rebuilt / modern / lighting, color and sound / fewer objects

III. guided / touch, listen, operate, and experiment /scientific principles IV. film / dance

Museums have changed. They are no longer places for the privileged few or for bored

vacationers to visit on rainy days.

At a science museum in Ontario, Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless

electricity passes through your body. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, you can look at 17th century instruments while listening to their music. At the Modern Museum in Sweden, you can put on costumes provided by the Stockholm Opera. At New York's American Museum of natural History recently, you can have helped make a bone-by-bone reproduction of the museum's stegosaurus, a beast that lived 200 million years ago.

As these examples show, museums are reaching out to new audiences, particularly the young,

the poor, and the less educated members of the population. As a result, attendance is interesting.