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Members of the University of Southern Mississippi’s dance squad prepare for

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问题     Members of the University of Southern Mississippi’s dance squad prepare for homecoming events. Homecoming is a tradition at American colleges, universities and also high schools. Schools usually hold a weekend for this purpose each fall. Homecoming weekend is a time when【B1】______students return to get together with【B2】______  students and with old friends.
    The weekend usually centers on a football game and a homecoming dance. Many schools also hold a【B3】______. And some burn a【B4】______  fire to show support for their team.
    The University of Illinois has【B5】______  for many years to have held the first college homecoming weekend in nineteen ten. The【B6】______  of that celebration saw it as a chance for students and former students to get to know each other. They said it would create more【B7】______to the university. And they said it would lead other universities to follow.
    We found a research paper on the Web site of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was completed this year by members of the university archives program.
    It seems they found that Baylor University in Texas held an event called "Home-Coming" one year earlier, in 1909. It was organized as a time to meet former student friends, recall old【B8】______  and "catch the Baylor spirit again."【B9】______.
    And Northern Illinois University has records to show it held a homecoming weekend even earlier, in 1906.【B10】______
    Today most American colleges hold a homecoming weekend. At most universities,【B11】______. Things can get a little wild. But some students say the weekend is fun only when their football team has a winning season. Still, whoever started it; homecoming weekend remains an important social event at many schools in the United States. [br] 【B10】
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答案 It was also a gathering of former students with organized social events built around a football game
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