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课文填空。以下是两篇课文选段，请任意选择一篇，并根据课文，在文中划线处填上适当单词，每空一词， (共10小题，计10分) 
1). Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to     1     the ancestors, who might return     2     to help or to do     3    . For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in     4     of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think this will     5     the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November. _6     this important feast day, people eat food in the _7     of skulls and cakes with “ bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had its     8    in old     9_ about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a     10     on them.
2)       According to a widely     1     theory, the universe began     2     a “Big Bang” that threw matter in all     3    . After the “Big Bang”, the earth was still just a cloud of dust.     4     it was to bee was uncertain until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust     5     into a solid     6    . The earth became so     7     that it was not clear     8     the shape would last or not. It     9     loudly with fire and rock. They were in time to produce carbon, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases, which were to make the earth’s     10    .1). satisfy                   either           harm                     memory         lead