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    A beautiful and very successful actress (女演员) was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the countryside, but she did not want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the centre of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colours.

    It was very difficult to get tickets for her show, because everybody wanted to see it. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter's bill (帐单). At the bottom of it were these words: “ Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance : 3 pounds,” with this note: “ After 5 p.m. I get 15 shillings (先令) an hour instead of 10 shillings.”

在下面一段文字的空白处补写恰当的语句，使整段文字语意完整，逻辑严密，前后连贯。每处字数不得超过所给空格数（含标点符号）。

    端午节，是我国最大的传统节日之一。____（8格），“端”的意思和“初”相同。“五”字又与“午”相通，按地支顺序推算，五月正是“午”月。____（15格），如：纪念屈原说；吴越民族图腾祭祀说；起于三代夏至节说……赛龙舟，是端午节的主要习俗。相传起源于古时楚国人因舍不得贤臣屈原投江死去，许多人划船去救。之后每年五月五日划龙舟以示纪念。

    后来，赛龙舟除纪念屈原之外，____（15格）。江浙地区划龙舟，兼有纪念当地出生的民主革命家秋瑾的意义。贵州苗族人民在农历五月二十五至二十八举行“龙船节”，也有预祝五谷丰登的意思。

费正清在《剑桥中国秦汉史》中说：“……不管人们是否佩服秦的成就，但必须承认这个成就：它在质和量的方面大大地改变了中国的面貌，以至它可以名之为“革命”，虽然这“革命”是从上面推行，而不是从下面推动的。这个成就，并没有由反秦的农民起义造成的政权所转移，它才是古代中国的真正革命。”这场革命（    ）