首页
登录
职称英语
Halloween used to be something quite different from the celebration of sugar
Halloween used to be something quite different from the celebration of sugar
游客
2024-05-10
30
管理
问题
Halloween used to be something quite different from the celebration of sugary greed that goes on today.
Earlier in this century, Halloween was a night when boys played tricks on their neighbors. These tricks were (47)______, but more closely resembled practical jokes. For example, the boys might lift an outhouse off its foundations and move it to someone else’s yard, or they might
(48)______ a door from its hinge and leave it on the owner’s roof. Such tricks required skill and planning, and the victims were (49)______ neighbors or relatives. Usually, the boys do this to knock back what the adults had done to them which they thought wrong. Thus, Halloween became a night when young people took their "(50)______" on adults in a way that was, for the most part, permitted by the community.
But as time passed by, Halloween lost most of its original traditions. Today, the only remnant is found in the "trick or treat" greetings of (51)______ candy collectors. The action associated with the holiday has (52)______ into destructive behavior, such as tire-cutting and window-breaking. These kinds of actions require no skill or intelligence. The small offerings—an apple or a piece of cake which people gave in exchange for protection from practical jokes, trick-or-treaters never satisfied them. Instead they demand handfuls of commercial candy bars from people, many of them strangers, on the collecting route. But the most alarming and unpleasant aspect of the new Halloween is that it (53)______ evil-doing and food in the worst way. More criminal do some (54)______ things—put pins into candy bars and razors into apple-pies which caused people to (55)______ this holiday to Some extent. Halloween turns into an occasion of fear and nervousness. It seems that Halloween has been transformed into an event that brings out in us, not harmless fun, but a combination of eating too much, greed, and occasional (56)______.
Word Bank:
A. assembles I. resent
B. combines J. revenge
C. usually K. costumed
D. destructive L. casually
E. imaginative M. remove
F. vicious N. exclude
G. terror O. degenerated
H. trick
[br]
选项
答案
K
解析
此处应填形容词修饰candy collectors。前句中提到了万圣节的传统(Halloween…traditions),根据常识,万圣节里要糖果的小孩子们除了"trick or treat"的把戏外,最大的特点就是身着怪异服装、因此K. costumed为本题答案。P. vicious“邪恶的”和E. imaginative“富于想象力的”都不能用在此处修饰小孩子(candy collectors):前者语义不符,后者体现不出万圣节的传统。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3592246.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]W:Well,hello,Jack!Haveyoumovedorsomething?Youhaven’tbeen
[originaltext]W:Well,hello,Jack!Haveyoumovedorsomething?Youhaven’tbeen
[originaltext]W:Well,hello,Jack!Haveyoumovedorsomething?Youhaven’tbeen
[originaltext]W:Well,hello,Jack!Haveyoumovedorsomething?Youhaven’tbeen
[originaltext]Itisoftenclaimedthatnuclearenergyissomethingwecanno
[originaltext]Itisoftenclaimedthatnuclearenergyissomethingwecanno
[originaltext]Itisoftenclaimedthatnuclearenergyissomethingwecanno
[originaltext]Itisoftenclaimedthatnuclearenergyissomethingwecanno
[originaltext]Halloween’soriginsdatebacktotheancientCelticfestival
[originaltext]Halloween’soriginsdatebacktotheancientCelticfestival
随机试题
Inbusiness,manyplacesadoptacreditsystem,whichdatesbacktoancientt
Nigerisin[originaltext][25A][26A]Workonwhatwillbecometheworld’
Imagineamagazinethatclaimedtorankalloftheyear’smusicreleasesin【
参与者在正常融合和不受任何限制的气氛中会以会议进行讨论,打破常规,积极思考,发表
读某区域等高线地形图,回答14~15题。 依据因地制宜的原则,图
按此规律,第7行的数字和为______?。 A.155 B.165 C.1
我国建筑企业承揽工程或从事建筑活动的范围,取决于()。A、企业自身的资质等级
设某对旅客列车每日开行一次,列车全程运行距离1600公里,列车旅行速度50公里/
选择贸易术语时需要考虑的因素不包括()。A、考虑施工情况B、贸易术语下的责任、
项目管理的核心任务是()。 A.环境管理 B.信息管理 C.
最新回复
(
0
)