II. Choose the correct word A, B or C for each gap to complete the following passage.

The spring festival season in Viet Nam starts with the Lunar New Year (Tet), and (1) ______ with the celebration honouring the mythical founding fathers, the Hung Kings, on the tenth day of the (2)______ lunar month.

Underlying the origins of these rituals is the farming cycle and (3) ______ association with fertility rites and ancestor worship. Ancestor worship is a (4) ______ of wet-rice farmers who keep their ancestors' graves in their village. This strong attachment to the village of one's birth and the recognition that the (5) ______ all descend from the same ancestral line creates strong bonds. The village festival is based (6) ______ the spirit of unity and family. The farmers are the festivals' creators, actors and audience.

Ancient ceremonies (7) ______ to farming sometimes take on additional meanings: the commemoration of heroic deeds and the village heroes' (8) ______ or death. Each village in the North of Viet Nam has (9) ______ a heroic or super-human figure as a tutelary or guardian spirit. The heroes were honoured in their own (10) ______ and communal houses which became the heart of the village activities.

1.         A. continues                B. closes                      C. opens                      D. expands

2.         A. first                         B. second                    C. third                        D. fourth

3.         A. its                           B. their                                    C. it                             D. them

4.         A. comprehension       B. wish                        C. victory                    D. belief

5.         A. visitors                    B. survivors                 C. inhabitants              D. businessmen

6.         A. on                           B. at                            C. of                            D. in

7.         A. built                        B. related                    C. linked                     D. covered

8.         A. fight                       B. strength                  C. feat                         D. birth

9.         A. such                        B. so                            C. very                        D. too

10.       A. castles                     B. cities                       C. temples                   D. entries