Unit 3 Festivals and Customs 一轮复习挖空练习-2024届高三英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第二册

B2U3 Festivals and customs 1.Alex around the world 10 January, a wedding ceremony, India When Nadim invited me to his sister’s wedding, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime. I was ___________(definite) not wrong! The wedding ceremony took place in a brightly_________ (decorate) hotel room. There were hundreds of guests, all ________(dress) up in formal, colourful clothes. According to tradition, the bride was wearing an eye-catching red silk sari. I did not understand all of the traditional customs, but a few made a deep impression on me. One was the bridegroom’s_________(enter) on a beautiful white horse. I had never seen that back home! Another was the part when Nadim’s father proudly led his daughter through the rows of seats to her husband. It reminded me_______ my sister’s wedding. Although our cultures are so different, the ________(smile) faces are the same. The customs that followed were anything but ordinary. The couple joined hands and walked around a small fire four times. Then they took seven steps together by the fire, and with each step made a different promise about how they were going to support each other and live together happily. It was very romantic! After the ceremony, it was time_______ the____________(celebrate). That is a story for another day, but let’s just say there was a lot of dancing. Now I know I have two left feet … and both of them hurt! 26 February, Rio Carnival, Brazil The summer heat hit me as soon as I got off the flight. No wonder people from Rio take a week _________ for this happy occasion. I could feel it already—the Carnival was in the air! __________(experience) the spirit of the Carnival for myself, I went to a street party. _________(luck), I arrived just in time—the show was about to begin as I took my place in the merry crowd. I could see a group of around 20 Brazilian dancers and a band in fancy costumes ___________(stand) in the street. Some of them carried flags, ________ blew in the wind. The crowd wa