完形填空OnceinabluemoonthereisoneonNewYear'sEve.Revelersringingin2010wi

完形填空 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 second full moon in a month. But don't1it to be blue - the name has nothing to2the color of our closest celestial(天体) neighbor.A full moon3on December 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown.If you're in Times Square, you'11 see the4moon 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 5in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For partygoers in Australia and Asia, the full moon does not show up 6New Year's Day, making January a blue moon month for them.However, the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclipse(月蚀) on New Year's Eve when7of the moon enters the Earth's shadow. The8will not be visible in the Americas.A full moon occurs929.5 days, and most years have 12.10, an extra full moon in a month - a blue moon - occurs every 2.5 years. The11time 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't12again until 2028.Blue moons have no astronomical 13 , said Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.`Blue moon' is just a14in the same sense as a `hunter's moon' or a `harvest moon,' Laughlin said in an e-mail.The popular definition of blue moon15after a writer for Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946 misunderstood the Maine Farmer's Calendar and marked a blue moon as the second full moon in a month. In fact, the calendar 16a blue moon as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, not the usual three.Though Sky & Telescope corrected the17decades 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 a18moon. It's just the first full moon of the winter season.In a tongue-in-cheek essay19on the magazine's Web site this week, senior contributing editor Kelly Beatty wrote: If skies are clear when I'm20celebrating, I'11 take a peek(眯着眼睛看) at that brilliant orb(天体) as it rises over the Boston skyline to see if it's an icy shade of blue. Or maybe I'11 just howl.1.A.wishB.waitC.hopeD.expect2.A.deal withB.do withC.develop withD.form into3.A.occurredB.cameC.ranD.went4.A.fullB.halfC.brightD.part5.A.out of sightB.visibleC.bigD.clear6.A.untilB.whenC.beforeD.since7.A.partB.allC.anyD.none8.A.moonB.eclipseC.sunD.shadow9.A.eachB.everyC.eitherD.all10.A.On the wholeB.Generally speakingC.On averageD.In addition11.A.lastB.nextC.otherD.another12.A.goB.seeC.comeD.look13.A.pointB.evidentC.theoryD.significance14.A.nameB.objectC.phenomenonD.tradition15.A.createdB.came aboutC.madeD.copied16.A.namedB.calledC.introducedD.defined17.A.errorB.nameC.realityD.number18.A.blueB.redC.yellowD.grey19.A.publishedB.postedC.printedD.written20.A.inB.outC.awayD.on

DBAAB AABBC ACDAB DAABB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

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