Unit 3 Festivals and customs 课文填空-2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第二册

Unit 3 Festivals And Customs Reading Alex Around The World 10 January, a wedding ceremony, India When Nadim invited me to his sister’s weeding, 1 knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime. I was 1.________(definite) not wrong! The wedding ceremony took place in a brightly 2._______ (decorate) hotel room. There were hundreds of guests, all 3.________(dress)up in formal, colorful 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 4.________ me. One was the bridegroom’s entrance on a beautiful white horse. 1 had never seen that back home! Another was the part when Nadim’s father 5.________(proud) led his daughter through the rows of seats to her husband. It reminded me 6.________ my sister’s wedding. Although our cultures are so different, the smiling faces are the same. The customs that followed were anything 7.________ordinary. The couple joined hands and walked around a small fire four times. Then they took seven 8.________(step) together by the fire, and with each step made a different promise about how they were going to support each other and live together 9.________(happy). It was very romantic! After the ceremony, it was time for the 10.________(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 11.________ of them hurt! 26 February, Rio Carnival, Brazil The summer heat hit me as soon as I got off the fight. No wonder people from Rio take a week 12.________ for this happy occasion. I could feel it already- -the Carnival was in the air! 13.________(experience) the spirit of the Carnival for myself, 1 went to a street party. 14.________(luck), I arrived just in time -the show was 15.________ 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 16.________(stand) in the street. Some of