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1). Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to ___1_____ the ancestors, who might return _____2__ to help or to do ____3____. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in ____4____ of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think this will __5_____ the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November. _6____ this important feast day, people eat food in the _7____ of skulls and cakes with “ bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had its ___8______in old _____9_ about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a __10____ on them.

2)       According to a widely ____1___ theory, the universe began _____2__ a “Big Bang” that threw matter in all _____3____. After the “Big Bang”, the earth was still just a cloud of dust. ___4____ it was to become was uncertain until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust _____5___ into a solid _____6__. The earth became so _____7___ that it was not clear ____8_____ the shape would last or not. It ____9______ loudly with fire and rock. They were in time to produce carbon, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases, which were to make the earth’s ___10______.