Latihan Bahasa Inggris Kelas VIII Writing Wishes
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Read the text below carefully and answer the question!

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New Year is celebrated all over the world, but some countries have their own ways to celebrate it. New Year or Oshogatsu is one of the most important holidays in Japan. They have a unique set of traditions to do on the holiday.

To welcome the New Year, families gather to clean and decorate their houses together. Then, after having breakfast in the New Year's Day, they visit shrines and temples to pray for blessing and fortune. Visitors can also draw fortune-telling papers called omikuji there. It predicts how their fortune will be in the upcoming year.

There is a variation of dishes the Japanese people eat in New Year, but the most common one is mochi or rice cake. The New Year mochi is special since it is stacked in the form of kagami mochi, which is said to bring blessings and good harvest. It is also served in a soup called ozoni. However, eating mochi should be done slowly and carefully. Since mochi is sometimes difficult to bite and chew, people can choke while eating it.

The correct statement based on the text above is...

A

Eating mochi can be dangerous if we eat it quickly.

B

Mochi is only served during New Year.

C

Ozoni does not contain mochi.

D

Mochi is not a common New Year dish in Japan.

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