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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