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16.An Interesting Festival
The Agricultural Feast takes place after the Independence Day.It is not a worldwide  (61)celebration (celebrate).Only Christians in Mexico look forward to its arrival for its religious origin.
Long ago,humans'ancestors were bad.They fooled and  (62)played (play) tricks on each other and never kept their word.So God turned up  (63)and drowned all their crops.Humans starved day and night,weeping.In order to gain God's forgiveness,a woman poet set off to see God.She admired God and kept apologizing.God was  (64)moved (move).With his permission,humans finally had good harvests again.So,(65)to wipe (wipe) sadness and remind themselves  (66)of the belief in God,people began the festival.
On the festival,people gather in open air,such as playgrounds or parking lots,and energetically have fun with each other all night long,as though they were never tired.(67)When a beauty dressed up in lovely clothing reads poems in memory of the poet,everyone holds their breath.Then,(68)it is the custom that the bones of a rooster head is given to her as an award.
(69)Obviously (obvious),the story is not true,but  (70)the festival is interesting.

分析 本文讲述了墨西哥的一个有趣的节日--农业盛宴.很久以前人类的祖先很不友好,他们互相愚弄,上帝就来淹了他们所有的作物,人们日夜挨饿.为了赢得上帝的
原谅,一位女诗人去找上帝,她不停地道歉,终于感动了上帝,在上帝的允诺下,人们又获得了丰收.为了记住上帝的信任,人们开始了这个节日.

解答 61.celebration;考查名词,空格前面是worldwide是形容词,形容词后面应该跟名词,故空格处用名词形式celebration.
62.played;考查动词的时态,这里过去时played和and前面的fooled是并列成分,并列作句子的谓语.  
63.and;考查连词,根据上下文,这里用and表示并列,"上帝出现了并淹了他们所有的作物".
64.moved;考查分词作形容词,动词的分词作形容词时,现在分词修饰物说明事物的性质,过去分词修饰人形容人的心理感受,这里主语是god,所以用过去分词.   
65.to wipe;考查不定式,在这里用动词的不定式形式表示目的.  
66.of;考查介词,这里是固定搭配,remind sb of sth意为"提醒某人记住某事".         
67.When;考查时间状语从句,结合上下文句意,这里用when引导时间状语从句,意为"当一位打扮漂亮穿着可爱的女士读诗时,每个人都屏住了呼吸".    
68.it;考查固定句型,这是"It is+名词+that从句",这里that引导名词性从句.     
69.Obviously;考查副词,这里副词放在句首作句子的状语.  
70.the;考查定冠词,这里用定冠词表示特指,特指本文中讲到的节日.

点评 首先要通读全文,了解大意,抓住上下文语境所提供的信息,仔细分析带空格的句子,明确空格所要填的词义,词型和短语搭配给出所要填的正确形式,然后整体阅读短文,核对答案

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