应对区爱护学校高考二轮英语复习专项训练：完形填空（十二）
Passage 12
Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the cond full moon in a month. But don't 1 it to be blue - the name has nothing to 2 the color of our clost celestial（天体） neighbor.
A full moon 3 on December 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown.
"If you're in Times Square, you'll e the 4 moon right above you. It's going to be that brilliant," said Jack Horkheimer, director emeritus of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of a weekly astronomy TV show.
The New Year's Eve blue moon will be 5 in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For partygoers in Australia and Asia, the full moon does not show up
6 New Year's Day, making January a blue moon month for them.
However, the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclip（月蚀） on New Year's Eve when 7 of the moon enters the Earth's shadow. The 8 will not be visible in the Americas.
A full moon occurs 9 29.5 days, and most years have 12. 10 , an extra full moon in a month - a blue moon - occurs every 2.5 years. The 11 time there was a lunar double take was in May 2007. New Year's Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years. The last time was in 1990; the next one won't 12 again until 2028.
Blue moons have no astronomical 13 , said Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"`Blue moon' is just a 14 in the same n as a `hunter's moon' or a `harvest moon,'" Laughlin said in an e-mail.
The popular definition of blue moon 15 after a writer for Sky & Telescope magazine in 1
946 misunderstood the Maine Farmer's Calendar and marked a blue moon as the cond full moon in a month. In fact, the calendar 16 a blue moon as the third full moon in a ason with four full moons, not the usual three.
Though Sky & Telescope corrected the 17 decades later, the definition caught on. For purists（语言纯正癖者）, however, this New Year's Eve full moon doesn't even qualify as a 18 moon. It's just the first full moon of the winter ason.
In a tongue-in-cheek essay 19 on the magazine's Web site this week, nior contributing editor Kelly Beatty wrote: "If skies are clear when I'm 20 celebrating, I'll take a peek（眯着眼睛看） at that brilliant orb（天体） as it ris over the Boston skyline to e if it's an icy shade of blue. Or maybe I'll just howl."
( ) 1. A. wish B. wait C. hope D. expect
( ) 2. A. deal with B. do with C. develop with D. form into
( ) 3. A. occurred B. came C. ran D. went
( ) 4. A. full B. half C. bright D. part
( ) 5. A. out of sight B. visible C. big D. clear
( ) 6. A. until B. when C. before D. since
( ) 7. A. part B. all C. any D. none
( ) 8. A. moon B. eclip C. sun D. shadow
( ) 9. A. each B. every C. either D. all
( ) 10. A. On the whole B. Generally speaking C. On average D. In addition
( ) 11. A. last B. next C. other D. another
( ) 12. A. go B. e C. come D. look
( ) 13. A. point B. evident C. theory D. significance
( ) 14. A. name B. object C. phenomenon D. tradition
( ) 15. A. created B. came about C. made D. copied
( ) 16. A. named B. called C. introduced D. defined
( ) 17. A. error B. name C. reality D. number
( ) 18. A. blue B. red C. yellow D. grey
( ) 19. A. published B. posted C. printed D. written
( ) 20. A. in B. out C. away D. on
答案及解析
本文介绍了一次天文现象：蓝月亮。完成本完形填空时，我们应把生活中的天文现象的实际和作者的思路逻辑联系起来。
1. D 考查动词的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。联系上下文的语境，及日常生活中的常识（月亮怎么着都不会是蓝的），我们容易推理出这一句的语境是：别期望月亮是
蓝的，这个名字跟月球的颜色一点关系也没有。我们不难看出此处应该填上表示期望之意的动词，也即是D项，而其余ABC项依次分别所表达的意思是：但愿，等待，希望，具有很大的迷惑性的AC两项，其中A项的不符合此处的上下文之间语言逻辑，C项中的hope其后不跟复合宾语结构，故我们选择A项为最佳答案。
2. B考查动词短语的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。由上一题的分析我们不难看出此处应该填上表示和……有联系之意的动词词组， 而have nothing to do with……就是这样的意思，也即是B项，而其余ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是：处理，随着……发展，形成，这些词语所表示的意思都和这儿的语言逻辑不相契合，故我们选择B项为最佳答案。
3. A 考查动词的含义辨析及准确应用。联系上下文的语境，及日常生活中的常识， 经过分析，语意是：12月2日发生圆月，此处应该填上表示出现、发生之意的动词，这四个词中只有A项有这样的意思。其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是：来，跑，去，很明显放在这儿都不能使句意通顺，故我们选择A项为最佳答案。
4. A 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解。联系上下文的语境，我们容易推理出这一句的
语境是：如果你在时间广场，你就会看见这轮圆月。此处应该填上表示圆的之意的词，也即是A项，而其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是：一半，明亮，部分，这些意思在这儿都不适用于此处的上下文之间语言逻辑，故A项为准确答案。
5. B 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解。联系上下文的语境，及日常生活中的常识，经过分析，语意是：这轮新年前夕的圆月将会在，加拿大，欧洲，南美洲和非洲看得见。这四个词中只有B项有看得见这样的意思。而其余ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是：看不见，大的，清晰的，其中D项的迷惑性很大，而根据常识，月亮有时清晰可见，有时模模糊糊，这些意思在这儿都不符合此处的上下文之间语言逻辑，故B项为准确答案。
6. A 检测连词的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。经过分析，语意是：对于澳大利亚和亚洲的观看者来说，这轮圆月一直到新年那一天才能出现。我们容易推理出此处应该填上表示直到之意的连词，这四个词中只有A项（until）有这样的意思，而其余BCD三项依次分别所表达的意思是：当……的时候，在……之前，自从…….开始，它们都不和not搭配，也构不成直到…..才之意，这些词语所表示的意思都和这儿的语言逻辑不相契合，故我们选择A项为最佳答案。
