Cryingmarriage？

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問題詳情：

Crying marriage？__61._(surprise) ，isn’t it? Actually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and __62._(remain) in fashion __63._ the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a__ 64._(necessary) to marriage procedure.

It is very much __65._ same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. __66.， the bride’s neighbors would look down upon __67._ as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases __68._ which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

In a word，crying at wedding is a __69._ by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the __70._(arrange) marriages of the old days of China，there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.

【回答】

60. [解析]　此處意思是crying marriage(哭嫁)令人吃驚。

[*]　Surprising

61. [解析]　and前面的動詞existed用了過去式，後面的動詞也用過去式，與existed構成並列謂語。

[*]　remained

62. [解析]　這種習俗“直到”清末都很流行。

[*]　until/till

63. [解析]　a後面用名詞，指哭嫁是土家族婚禮中一個必不可少的程序。

[*]　necessity

64. [解析]　same前一定有冠詞the。

[*]　the

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