noticed【3500英语词汇】语境记忆第011期

Passage 11

Exercise 1

语法填空

An Interesting Festival

The

Agricultural

Feast

takes

place

after

the

Independence

Day.

It

is

not

a

worldwide

_____1_____(celebrate).

Only

Christians

in

Mexico

look

forward

to

its

arrival

for

its

religious

origin:

Long ago, humans’ ancestors were bad. They fooled and played tricks on each other and never

kept _____2_____ word. So God turned up and drowned all their crops. Humans starved day and

night, _____3_____(weep). In order to gain God’s _____4_____(forgive),

a woman poet set off to

see

God.

She

admired

God

and

kept

apologizing.

God

was

moved.

With

his

permission,

humans

finally

had

good

harvests

again.

So,

_____5_____(wipe)

sadness

and

remind

themselves

the

of

belief in God, people _____6_____(begin) the festival.

_____7_____ the festival, people gather in the open air, such as playgrounds or parking lots,

and

energetically

have

fun

with

each

other

all

night

long,

as

though

they

_____8_____(be)

never

tired. When a beauty dressed in lovely clothing reads poems in memory of the poet, everyone holds

their

breath.

Then,

it

is

the

custom

_____9_____

the

bone

of

a

rooster

head

is

given

to

her

as

_____10_____ award.

Obviously, the story is not true, but the festival is interesting.

Exercise 2

翻译理解

An Interesting Festival

The

Agricultural

Feast

take

s

place

after

the

Independence

Day.

It

is

not

a

worldwide

celebration

. Only

Christian

s in

Mexico

look forward to

its

arrival

for its

religious

origin

:

Long ago, humans’

ancestor

s were bad. They

fool

ed and

play

ed

tricks on

each other and never

kept

their

word

. So God

turn

ed

up

and

drown

ed all their crops. Humans

starve

d

day and night

,

we ep

ing.

①

In order to

gain

God’s

forgiveness

, a woman

poet

set off

to see God. She

admire

d God

and

kept

apologizing

.

God

was

moved.

With

his

permission

,

humans

finally

had

good

harvest

s

again.

So, to

wipe

sadness

and

remind

themselves

of

the

belief

in God, people began the festival.

②

On

the

festival,

people

gather

in

the

open

air,

such

as

playgrounds

or

parking

lot

s,

and

energetic

ally

have

fun with

each

other

all

night

long

,

as

though

they

were

never

tired.

When

a

beauty dress

ed in lovely

clothing

reads poems

in memory of

the poet, everyone

hold

s

their breath

.

③

Then, it is the

custom

that the

bone

of a

rooster

head is given to her as an

award

.

Obvious

ly, the story is not true, but the festival is interesting.

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Exercise 3

核对译文

有趣的节日

农业盛会

在

独立

日后

举行

。

它不是一个

世界性的庆典

，

由于它的

宗教起源

，

只有

墨西哥

的

基督徒

才

盼

着节日的

到来

：

很久以前，

人类的

祖先

很坏，

他们互相

欺骗

，

耍诡计

，

从不

遵守诺言

。

于是，

上帝

出现< /p>

了，

淹死

了他们所有的作物。人们

日夜挨饿

，

哭泣

着。 为了

获得

上帝的

原谅

< br>，一位女

诗人出发

去见

上帝。< /p>

她对上帝的

赞美

和不断

< br>歉意

感动了上帝，

有了他的

允许

，

人类终于又获得了

丰收

。

因此，

为了

抹去忧伤

并

提醒

自己

对

上帝的

信仰

，人们开始举办这个节日。

在节日那天 ，人们

聚集

在露天场所，例如操场或

停 车场

，

通宵达旦地玩

得非常开心，

精力

充沛的

人们

似 乎

不知疲倦。

当一位

穿着

可爱

衣服

的

美女

纪念

那位诗人时，

在场的每

个人都

屏住了呼吸

，然后 ，按照

风俗

，将

奖励

< br>给她一只

公鸡

的头

骨