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Elaine Kirn, West Los Angeles College
Pamela Hartmann, Los Angeles Unified School District
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In each of the following sentences, write the word or words that the underlined word(s) refers to.
1
About 12 kilometers off the coast of Hong Kong lies the tiny island of Cheung Chau.
This fishing community
, whose culture is a mix of the modern and the traditional, is home to the world's only bun festival.
2
During the festival, the children dress in colorful costumes.
It
also includes parades and opera performances.
3
Pak Tai is the Taoist god of the sea.
He
is important to the inhabitants of Cheung Chau because, according to legend, he drove away pirates who wanted to attack the island.
4
La Tomatina is the world's biggest food fight and
it
has become a tradition in this town which lies just miles away from the Mediterranean city of Valencia.
5
Some teenagers who wanted to take part in the procession pushed a participant onto the ground. When
he
got up they started fighting.
6
...squish the tomatoes (squeeze them with your hands) before throwing
them
in order to avoid injury...
7
The residents of Gilmer, Texas are thankful for their yams.
They
didn't realize this, however, until the 1930s when the government quarantined all yams (sweet potatoes) due to an infestation of weevils, a kind of beetle that destroys crops.
8
The East Texas Yamboree (a play on the word "Jamboree," meaning "a busy event or celebration") is one of the oldest festivals in Texas and
it
attracts over 100,000 visitors every year.
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