Valentine" s Day may come from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia.【C1】______the fierce wolves roamed nearby, the old Romans called【C2】______the god Lupercus to help them. A festival in his 【C3】______ was held on February 15th. On the eve of the festival the 【C4】______of the girls were written on 【C5】______ of paper and placed in jars. Each young man 【C6】______ a slip. The girl whose name Was【C7】______was to be his sweetheart for the year. Legend 【C8】______ it that the holiday became Valentine"s Day【C9】______a Roman priest named Valentine. Emperor Claudius II【C10】______the Roman soldiers NOT to marry or become engaged. Claudius felt married soldiers would 【C11】______stay home than fight. When Valentine 【C12】______ the Emperor and secretly married the young couples, he was put to death on February 14th, the 【C13】______of Lupercalia. After his death, Valentine became a 【C14】______. Christian priests moved the holiday from the 15th to the 14th—Valentine"s Day. Now the holiday honors Valentine 【C15】______of Lupercus. Valentine" s Day has become a major 【C16】______of love and romance in the modern world. The ancient god Cupid and his 【C17】______into a lover"s heart may still be used to 【C18】______falling in love or being in love. But we also use cards and gifts, such as flowers or jewelry, to do this. 【C19】______to give flower to a wife or sweetheart on Valentine" s Day can sometimes be as 【C20】______as forgetting a birthday or a wedding anniversary.
【答案解析】解析:考查动词短语辨析。空格处填入的介词或副词与call构成动词短语,后接sb.to do sth.作复合宾语。call upon sb.to do sth.意为“请求/要求某人做某事”,符合题意。call back意为“回电话:叫(某人)回去”;call off意为“取消,停止进行”,一般接sth.作宾语;call away意为“叫走,叫到别处去”。故选A.upon。
【答案解析】解析:考查名词辨析。空格处填入名词,与of paper搭配。rolls of sth.意为“卷”;piles of sth.意为“成堆的东西,大量的东西”;works意为“著作,作品;工厂”,不与paper搭配;slip本身意为“纸条,便条,小纸片”,它常与of paper搭配,表示“纸条”。由于本段倒数第二句出现了a slip,根据文意,应选D.slips。
【答案解析】解析:考查固定搭配。Legend has it意为“据传说”,后面接宾语从句,是it替代的内容。因此,本题选D.has。
单选题
【C9】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:考查介词辨析。空格处填入一个介词,后面接名词短语a Roman priest,过去分词named Valentine作后置定语修饰priest。A.after意为“模仿,依照”,符合文意,空格所在句子相当于Valentine’s Day was named after a Roman priest(圣瓦伦丁节是以一名罗马牧师的名字命名的)。其他项虽然都可作介词,但since“自从”,as“作为”,from“从”,均不符合文意。
单选题
【C10】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:考查动词辨析。空格处填入的动词需接不定式的复合结构作宾语。符合要求的只有A.ordered。order sb.to do sth.意为“命令/指挥/要求(某人做某事)”,符合文义。plead的常用搭配是plead with sb.to do sth.,意为“恳求(某人做某事)”;envision意为“展望,想象”,一般只接sth.作宾语;believe意为“相信”,可接sb./sth.或从句作宾语,但不接不定式。
【答案解析】解析:考查语篇理解。空格部分“the ______ of Lupercalia”与上文“February 14th”是同位语的关系。Lupercalia指“牧神节”,第一段第三句提到该节日的时间是2月15日。因此2月14日是该节日的前夕,故本题应选D.eve。celebration“庆祝”;arrangement“安排”;feast“节日;宴会”,均不符合文意。
【答案解析】解析:考查动词辨析。空格所在句子为全文的最后一句,其主干结构为______ to give flowers can be as…as forgetting a birthday。该句中有一个比较结构,因此相比较的事物应具有一定的可比性。首先从语法上看,能接不定式作宾语的只有D.Forgetting。Keep一般接动名词作宾语;Disapprove常接of sth./sb.作宾语;Support常接sb./sth.作宾语,其次,“forgetting”一词在下文中也出现,在上下文比较的含义上体现了呼应。