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As we know, birthdays mean only cakes, presents, and a sweet song--Happy Birthday to You when we think of it. 1 , there are different birthday celebrations.
2 the west, many birthday traditions e from an old belief that bad spirits showed up on a person's birthday. Today, people still get together for birthday parties. But around the world, birthdays 3 (celebrate) in many different ways.
In North America, children get their noses 4 (cover) with butter on their birthdays. 5 butter is supposed to make children too slippery for bad 6 （lucky） to stick to them. Irish people lift birthday children upside down and hit them 7 (light) on the floor for every year of their age. Mexico also has a unique birthday tradition. A paper-made animal is filled 8 candy and toys and hung from the ceiling. The birthday child with his eyes covered then 9 (try) to hit the animal with a stick 10 it bursts open.However．
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