牛津英语译林9A精英班( Unit 1)拓展培优训练(教师(14)

9A Unit 1精英班拓展培优训练（教师版+学生版）

soup with fish, named Qiutang（autumn soup）. People believe the whole family will be safe and healthy after drinking the soup.

Standing eggs on end

On Autumn Equinox day, there are thousands of people in the world trying to make eggs stand on end. This Chinese custom has become the world's game.

It is believed, on this day, the day and night are of equal time both in the southern and northern hemispheres. Thus it is a time well suited for standing eggs on end.

Sacrificing（献祭）to the moon

Originally, the festival of sacrificing to the moon was set on the Autumnal Equinox day.

According to historical records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, the ancient kings sacrificed to the sun on the Spring Equinox, and to the moon on the Autumn Equinox.

But since it is not a fixed day in lunar August, there might be no full moon on the Autumnal Equinox. During the festival, if there was no moon to make sacrifices to, it would spoil（破坏）the fun. Thus, people changed it to the Mid-Autumn Day.

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Everyone should visit a lighthouse at least once. The most important r (1)____ for such a visit is to realize how our ancestors fought nature with the basic tools they h(2)______.They had only basic ways of creating light, and y (3)______they found a way of using this simple technology in isolated（孤零零的）places to stop ships from h(4)__＿rocks. Secondly, visiting lighthouses will help us to understand the lives of lighthouse keepers. By their very nature, lighthouses were built on some rocks or cliffs. Thus, the lighthouse keepers often lived I(5)____ lives.

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