Think of carnival，and you （18） ______ crowds，costumes，and confusion．"Carnival"comes from two Latin words，（19） ______ "no more meat"．People saw Carnival as a last （20） ______ to have fun at the end of the winter season．
The most famous carnival in Europe was in Venice．For weeks（21） ______ ，people wearing masks did what they wanted without（22） ______ ，so that many crimes went（23） ______ ．
The government realized this problem and made laws to solve it．Masks were（24） ______ completely．But in the late 1970s the tradition was（25） ______ by students．
Today，carnival in Venice is（26） ______ for five days in February．As you（27） ______ through the streets，you see thousands of masks．However，nobody takes them off．If the masks come off，the magic is lost．