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Unit 2 Let’s celebrate!
单元话题语法填空练习
(2023上·安徽·高一校联考阶段练习)阅读下面材料,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Cheering, dancing and singing, local people and tourists gathered around the fire during the Torch Festival of the Yi People in Bijie, Guizhou, on Aug 12. The festival 1 (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage(非物质文化遗产) in 2011.
There are different stories about how the festival started. But 2 (probable) it was because of the natural worship(崇拜) of fire by the Yi people. Fire was important since their ancestors could use it to bring light as well as 3 (warm) and cook food. One Yi ethnic proverb says, “Everything you eat must’see’ fire.” This is due to 4 old practice. Before bringing meat into the home from the outside, a small fire must first be lit outside and the meat should be smoked on the fire. In farming, fire was used 5 (light) piles of branches and leaves, 6 were later buried in the ground.
The Yi people used to celebrate the harvest, as a way to pray for a good harvest and drive away evil from their homes and farmland. Today it has become a 7 (society) event where people come together to light torches and join in various 8 (activity) such as building bonfires, horse racing, wrestling, bullfighting and beauty contests. The festival also provides people 9 a chance to expand their circle of friends. Through the festival, the Yi people not only share their joy and thanks for their good life, 10 get more people to understand their lifestyle and traditions.
(2023上·陕西安康·高一统考期中)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
On Xiaohongshu, a lifestyle-focused social media platform in China, a search for “new Chinese style” could produce over 4 million results, 11 (most) user posts. That number becomes important when you find out it is double 12 number of results for a similar search for European and US styles that 13 (be) popular in China once upon a time. For the younger generat