Question

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Carnival today is an international multicultural experience. But how did it become so? To understand 1. carnival is all about, we need to look at the history of America and the meeting of two 2. (culture)---European and African.

The 3. (arrive) of Europeans in America and the opening of huge farms and plantations to grow cotton, fruit and vegetables meant there was 4. immediate need for people to work on them, which 5. (mark) the beginning of the slave trade. Millions of people were taken 6. force to the New World to work as slaves 7. there were British and French landowners. At first, the slaves were forced to watch as their masters celebrated carnival with food, drink and masked dances. With time 8. (pass), the slave trade was abolished. So former slaves took part in the carnival together with their landowners. It became more colorful and more exciting 9. it had been before.

Carnival became a way to unite different communities, as people forgot their everyday problems and enjoyed themselves eating, drinking and dancing. Today, visitors from all over the world come to join in the fun. Carnival has become a 10. (celebrate) of life itself.

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