The end of December and the beginning of January are the busiest times for the Japanese post offices. (1) _________ Japanese have a custom of sending New Year’s Day postcards to their friends and relatives, (2) __________ to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards. Their original purpose was to give your faraway friends and relatives tidings of yourself and your immediate family. (3) __________, this custom existed for people to tell others whom they did not often meet that they were alive and well.
Japanese people send these postcards so that they arrive (4) ___________ 1st January. The post office guarantees (5) ______ the greeting postcards on 1st January if they are posted within a time limit. To deliver these cards (6) _________ time, the post office usually hires students part-time to help deliver the letters.
It is (7) _________ not to send these postcards when one has had a death in the family during the year. In this case, a family member sends a simple postcard (8) ____mochi hagaki (mourning postcards) to inform friends and relatives they should send New Year’s cards, out of respect for the deceased.
(4) _________
Hãy suy nghĩ và trả lời câu hỏi trước khi xem đáp án
Lời giải:
Báo saiin + tháng
on + ngày, tháng, năm
Ta có : phía sau vị trí cần điền là 1st January (ngày mồng 1 tháng Giêng)
=> Giới từ “on” là đáp án chính xác nhất
=> Japanese people send these postcards so that they arrive (4) on 1st January.
Tạm dịch: Người Nhật gửi những tấm bưu thiếp này để họ đến vào ngày 1 tháng Giêng