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Test 5 Ⅰ.完形填空 Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year’s 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 don’t __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 Year’s countdown. “If you’re in Times Square，you’ll see the __4__ moon right above you.It’s 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 Year’s 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 Year’s Day，making January a blue moon month for them. However，the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclipse(月蚀) on New Year’s Eve when __7__ of the moon enters the Earth’s 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 Year’s Eve blue moons are rarer，occurring every 19 years.The last time was in 1990; the next one won’t __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 ‘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