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专项 06 必修三至选必三阅读专项(新题速递+同步话题)
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I was on an amazing trip with my wife, following Marco, our guide to experience the festival of Qoyllur Rit’i which takes place at 4,300 metres in the southern Andes of Peru, a festival which few foreign tourists ever get to see.
People were travelling to this festival from all over Peru. Among them there were old men, mothers with small babies and children all following the same route. Many of them had horses carrying their food, blankets and tents. Some, like us, had come by bus to Mahuayani, the nearest town, and were walking up from there.
We continued climbing for another hour and a half before reaching the Sinakara valley. There we looked down on a flat plain of open grassland. Right across this flat piece of ground people were putting up tents of blue plastic to protect themselves from the rain. Marco chose a spot to put up our tent.
Not far away in an open market, people were buying tiny houses, cars or small pictures showing a baby or something else. Marco explained that these represented something the pilgrims(朝圣者)wanted. They would take them and bury them in the mountain. This, they believed, would make sure that what they wished for would come true in the year to come.
After dinner we went to bed fully clothed inside our sleeping bags. We were up early the next morning, the main day of the festival. The Ukukus men wearing black masks(面罩) and bright costumes, had left their tents in the early hours to climb the nearest mountain by the light of the full moon. They stopped to dance from time to time, believing this would bring luck to their villages. As they came down, they were joined by groups of dancers in traditional costumes. They performed wherever there was a space. Although there did not seem to be anyone organising them, the whole festival had become a huge harmonious(和谐的) celebration.
1.Who might be the author of the text?
A.At our guide. B.A schoolboy.
C.A native of Peru. D.A foreign traveller.
2.Where did