The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth

　　day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox(秋分).

　　Many refer it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". This day ___1____

　　is also considered a harvest festival because that fruits, vegetables and ___2____

　　grain have been harvested by this time and food is unabundant. With ___3____

　　delinquent accounts settled prior to the festival , it is a time for relax ___4___

　　and celebration. Together with the celebration there appears some ___5___

　　special customs in different parts. However, the custom of playing under

　　the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, and it is not less ___6___

　　popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in,

　　people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate

　　their happy life or thinking of their relative and friends far from home. ____7___

　　The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and

　　one and a half inches in thickness, resembles Western fruitcakes in taste ____8____

　　and consistency. But nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes __9___

　　on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival. For generations, moon

　　cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans,

　　lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates(棗子), wrapped in a pastry.

　　Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting

　　dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes ___10___

　　are served in the English holiday seasons.

　　參考答案及解析:

　　1. refer后加to

　　固定搭配refer to…as…，意為“把……稱作……”。

　　2. that - /

　　Because表示原因后接從句時不需加that。

　　3. unabundant -abundant

　　根據(jù)上文已經(jīng)說了中秋節(jié)也被認為是豐收節(jié)，所以食物應該是很豐富的，故將unabundant改為abundant。

　　4. relax -relaxation

　　relax是動詞，此處需要名詞作for的賓語，所以將relax改成相應的名詞relaxation。

　　5. appears -appear

　　這句話是倒裝句，真正的主語是后面的some special customs，所以謂語動詞要用復數(shù)形式。

　　6. and - but

　　7. relative - relatives

　　8. resembles - resemble

　　這句話的主語是the round moon cakes，所以將謂語動詞resembles改為resemble。

　　9. hundreds后加of

　　固定搭配hundreds of“成百上千的”。

　　10. cakes后加which或that

　　這句話出現(xiàn)了compare和are served兩個謂語，根據(jù)句子的意思compare才是真正的謂語，而are served….則應該是修飾cakes的定語從句，又因為從句缺少主語，所以加上that或which。

　　編輯推薦：

　　2013 年6月大學英語四級(CET-4)高頻詞匯匯總

　　2013 年大學英語四級(CET-4)改錯練習題匯總

　　2013 年6月大學英語六級(CET-6)高頻詞匯匯總