46 What is this passage mainly about?
(A) Different types of Christmas lotteries in Spain.
(B) Different ways to purchase the Spanish lottery.
(C) The long history of the Spanish lottery system.
(D) The introduction and superstitions of the El Gordo lottery.

Words like stoical堅忍的, practical實際的 and pragmatic 務實 are just a few words that could be applied to describe the stereotypical 刻板的 Spaniards西班牙人. The word “superstitious” 迷信的 usually is not on the list. However, once a year in the run-up to Christmas, it seems that their rationality合理得 goes out the window and many people change their patterns of behavior radically for just a few weeks. To understand why, we first need to understand “the fat one.” “The fat one” refers to 歸因the 205-year-old Spanish Christmas Lottery, “El Gordo,” which is the biggest lottery in the world in terms of the total prize money on offer. Its fund structure allows many more winners than other conventional  lottery draws. This hugely popular lottery draw first took place in 1812 and has been held on December 22 every year since then, even continuing through the Spanish Civil War and both World Wars. Winning numbers are drawn by children from Madrid's San Ildefonso school, which was originally a home for orphans of civil servants. The pupils 學生deliver the results in a song by picking and singing out a lottery number from one big golden drum, and then its corresponding prize amount from the other drum. On this date, the streets of Spain are silent as everyone watches the broadcast of the El Gordo lottery draw, a love affair which can take over three hours. There are many superstitions about the El Gordo lottery tickets. Some people claim that rubbing your lottery ticket against a pregnant woman’s belly, a bald man’s head or a cat’s back will make it a winner. In the northwestern region of Galicia, lottery players hang their tickets on horseshoes. In other regions, people tuck their ticket next to a figure of the Virgin Mary. Some Spaniards believe that the key to good luck comes in the form of an actual key, so they carry an old iron key in their pocket with the lottery ticket.

The word"superstitious" usually is not on the list. However, once a year in the run-up to Christmas, it seems that their rationality goes out the window and many people change their patterns of behavior radically for just a few weeks. To understand why, we first need to understand "the fat one." "The fat one" refers to the 205-year-old Spanish Christmas Lottery, "El Gordo," which is the biggest lottery in the world in terms of the total prize money on offer.

解答：這段文章主要講的是“El Gordo”彩票的介紹以及人們對它的迷信。文章首先提到人們在聖誕節前的幾周，理性似乎會消失，然後提到了“El Gordo”，這是西班牙最大的聖誕彩票，並解釋了它的歷史背景。