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根据短文内容,从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空,使短文内容完整正确。

know climate stay off took part grown into

The lights in many buildings around the world were turned off at 8: 30 p.m. on March 29th, 2014. The lights _____1.____ for one hour an event called Earth Hour. The event is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature, also ____2.___ as the World Wildlife Fund. People are asked to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to ___【小题3__ change,

The first Earth Hour was held in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. Since then, Earth Hour has ___3._ an international event. People in more than seven thousand cities in one hundred and fifty countries ___4.__ this year. The event organizers say big changes start with small steps like turning out the lights.

 

1.stay off

2.known

3.climate

4.grown into

5.took part

【解析】

试题分析:这篇短文讲述的是为了庆祝世界地球日,由世界自然基金会组织发起的一个活动,即熄灯一小时。在3月29日,世界地球日这天,世界很多地方的大楼里,晚上8点半,人们就把灯熄灭一小时。通过这个活动来提醒人们保护环境的重要性。

1.句意:2014年3月29日,全世界大楼里的灯在晚上8点半熄灭,灯熄灭一小时为了庆祝地球日。stay off 这个短语中stay 是一个系动词,表示保持某种状态;off是一个副词,意思是熄灭。这里的意思是在3月29日这天,大楼里的灯熄灭一小时来庆祝地球日。

2.句意:这个事情是由世界自然基金会,也被叫做世界野生动物基金会组织的。be known as作为……而出名,或作为……而被人们知道。这是一个固定的结构,所以这里应该用过去分词的形式。

3.句意:人们被要求关灯一小时,来让人们注意气候的变化。climate是一个名词,意思是气候,天气。climate change气候变化。

4.句意:第一个关灯一小时是在2007年澳大利亚的悉尼举行的,从那以后,这个活动就变成了一个国际事件。grow into 变成……。从2007年,澳大利亚的悉尼第一次举行了这样的一个活动之后,很多国家都加入了进来,这个事情变成了一个国际事件。

5.句意:今年150个国家中的7,000多做城市的人们参加了这个活动。take part in 是一个固定的短语,意思是参加。这句话告诉了我们今年参加这个活动的城市。

考点:阅读填空。

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