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【正文】 em. Perhaps that is because the celebrations have long traditions. Consider April Fool39。s Day, for example, No one knows when or why it began. Today it is celebrated in many countriesFrance, England, and Australia, among others. On this day, people play practical jokes. _ (47) The ones who laugh are the ones playing the jokes. The people they fool often get angry. Does celebrating this day make sense to you? Dyngus Day in Poland seems strange, too. On this day, it is traditional for boys to pour water over the heads of girls. Here is the strangest part：They do it to girls they like. Other unusual celebrations take place in a single city or town. A holiday called La Tomatina is celebrated in Bunol, Spain. Every year, in late August, big trucks carry more than 200,000 pounds of tomatoes into this little town. (48) For two hours, people in the streets throw tomatoes at each other. Everyone ends up red from head to toe. August 10 marks the start of the Puck Fair, an lrish festival with a very unusual tradition. People from the town of Killorglin go up into the mountains and catch a wild goat. (49) There are also some celebrations that are really strange. In the United States, sometimes one person gets an idea for a new holiday and tries to get others to accept it. Whose idea was Public Sleeping Day? That one is on February 28. It may seem strange, but it sounds like more fun than the one on February9. (50) Do you like the idea of inventing a new holiday? lf you do, then you will want to mark March 26 0n your calendar. That is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day. A. Some people have fun imagining new holidays. B. That is supposed to be Toothache Day. C. Then begins the world39。s biggest food fight. D. They bring him back to town, put a crown on his head, and make him king for three days. E. Jokes are supposed to be funny, but these jokes do not make everyone laugh.F. Some of the days people celebrate, however, are less serious.第6部分：完形填空（第51—65題，每題1分，共15分） 下面的短文有15處空白，請(qǐng)根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容為每處空白確定1個(gè)最佳選項(xiàng)。Influenza(流感) Influenza has been with us a long time. According to some Greek writers 51 medical history, the outbreak of 412 . was of influenza. The same has been suggested of the sickness 52 swept through the Greek army attacking Syracuse in 395 . Influenza is a disease that moves most quickly among people living in 53 conditions, hence, it is likely to attack armies. 54 the nineteenth century there were five widespread outbreaks of influenza. The last of the five 55 in 1889 and marked the beginning of the story of influenza in our time. 56 the recent outbreak, it started in Asia. For more than forty years before that outbreak, influenza had steadily __57__ and was believed to be dying out. A new group of outbreaks was 58 by the great outbreak of 18891890 and for the next quarter of a century influenza remains a constant threat.In April 918 flu broke among American troops stationed in France. It quickly spread through all the 59 but caused relatively few deaths. Four months later, however, a second outbreak started which _60___ to be a killer. It killed not only the old and already sick but also healthy young adults. It 61 through every country in the world, only a few distant islands in the South Atlantic and the Pacific remaining __62__. It brought the life of whole countries to stop, food 63 stopped and work loss was very great. Before the great outbreak ended, it had killed 64 15 million people. Thereafter, there have been several great outbreaks throughout the world. It is thus __65__that influenza is a terrible infection that we have to pay more attention to.心J51AbyB onC toD with52AwhereB thatC whyD who53AlocalB goodC crowdedD rich54ASinceB DuringC AmongD For55AchangedB happenedC stoppedD suffered56ALikeB AsC Along Accccccccccccccc AlongD Before，57AincreasedB interruptedC decreasedD kept58AintroducedB controlledC preventedD reported59AarmiesB villagersC farmesD enemies60AceasedB wantedC provedD failed61AgotB putC wentD looked62AuncountedB unusedC untouchedD unchanged ookedununchangedunchanged63AsourcesB shortagesC purchasesD supplies64AlastB mostC allD least65AclearB strangeC impossibleD wise
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