高考英语二轮完形填空专题训练7.docVIP

2010届高考二轮英语复习专项训练：完形填空（十二） Passage 12 Once in a blue moon there is one on New Years Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But dont 1 it to be blue - the name has nothing to 2 the color of our closest celestial（天体） neighbor. A full moon 3 on December 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Years countdown. If youre in Times Square, youll see the 4 moon right above you. Its going to be that brilliant, said Jack Horkheimer, director emeritus of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of a weekly astronomy TV show. The New Years Eve blue moon will be 5 in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For partygoers in Australia and Asia, the full moon does not show up 6 New Years Day, making January a blue moon month for them. However, the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclipse（月蚀） on New Years Eve when 7 of the moon enters the Earths shadow. The 8 will not be visible in the Americas. A full moon occurs 9 29.5 days, and most years have 12. 10 , an extra full moon in a month - a blue moon - occurs every 2.5 years. The 11 time there was a lunar double take was in May 2007. New Years Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years. The last time was in 1990; the next one wont 12 again until 2028. 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 `hunters 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 Farmers 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