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 sense 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 1946 misunderstood the Maine Farmer’s Calendar and marked a blue moon as the second full moon in a month.In fact,the calendar __16__ a blue moon as the third full moon in a season 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 season.
In a tongue-in-cheek essay __19__ on the magazine’s Web site this week,senior 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 rises over the Boston skyline to see if it’s an icy shade of blue.Or maybe I’ll just howl.”
1.A.wish
B.wait
C.hope
D.expect
答案 D
解析 A、C两项具有很大的迷惑性,其中A项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,故选D项。
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