练习题6-2023-2024学年高一英语【新课程寒假作业】

积 累 · 整 合 应 用 · 拓 展 创 新 · 实 践 高一英语 第 周 年 月 日 语篇填空 阅读下面短文 ， 在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式 。 Passage 1 Crying marriage? 1. （ surprise ） , isn蒺t it? Factually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China蒺s Sichuan Province, and 2. （ remain ） in fashion 3. the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 4. （ necessary ） to marriage procedure. It is very much 5. same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 6. the bride蒺s neighbors would look down upon 7. as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases 8. which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony. In a word, crying at wedding is a 9. by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 10. （ arrange ） marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life. Passage 2 The polar bear is found in the Arctic Circle and some big land masses as far south as Newfoundland. While they are rare north of 88°, there is evidence 1. they range all the way across the Arctic, and as far south as James Bay in Canada. It is difficult to figure out a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been 2. （ poor ） studied; however, biologists calculate that there are about 20,000 — 25,000 polar bears worldwide. Modern methods 3. tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid鄄1980s, and are expensive 4. （ perform ） consistently over a large area. In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut 5. （ report ） increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a 6. （ believe ） that populations are increasing. Scientists have responded by 7. （ note ） tha