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高三英语专项训练--完形填空(三)
Some myths are stories told since ancient
times to explain the causes for natural happenings.
The Greek myth that explains why there are
changes of __1____ is about Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. She had a
daughter, Persephone , whom she loved very much. Hades, god of the underworld ,
fell in love with Persephone ,and he asked Zeus , the __2____of the gods , to
give Persephone to him as his __3____. Zeus did not want either to disappoint
Hades or to upset Demeter, so he said he would not agree to the marriage, but
neither would he __4____ it. Hades, therefore, decided to take the girl without
__5____ .When Persephone was picking flowers in the garden , he seized her and
took her to the underworld. When Demeter__6_____ what happened to Persephone ,
she became so ___7____ that she caused all plants to ____8__. People were in
__9___ of starving. But Demeter was determined not to let crops grow _10___ her
daughter, Persephone, was returned to her. __11____, still not wanting to
disappoint Hades , decided upon a condition for Persephone’s ___12___ .She
could go back to her mother if she had not ___13___ anything while she was in
the underworld. Demeter __14____ it because she did not know that Persephone
had eaten several pomegranate(石榴) seeds in the underworld. When Zeus __15____ this, he agreed that
Persephone could spend part of the year with her _16____ , but he added
that since she had eaten the seeds
, she must spend part of the year
in the underworld . And so it _17____
that when Persephone is in the underworld , Demeter is sad and therefore
__18___ not let the crops grow. That is __19___ we have winter when plants do
not grow. When Persephone returns , Demeter is __20__, it is spring, and plants
begin to grow again.