Cryingmarriage？

问题详情：

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]　此处意思是crying marriage(哭嫁)令人吃惊。

[*]　Surprising

61. [解析]　and前面的动词existed用了过去式，后面的动词也用过去式，与existed构成并列谓语。

[*]　remained

62. [解析]　这种习俗“直到”清末都很流行。

[*]　until/till

63. [解析]　a后面用名词，指哭嫁是土家族婚礼中一个必不可少的程序。

[*]　necessity

64. [解析]　same前一定有冠词the。

[*]　the

rwise

66. [解析]　新娘在婚礼上必须哭，“否则”邻居们就会瞧不起她。

[*]　her

67. [解析]　in which引导定语从句。

[*]　in

68. [解析]　a way to do sth.做某事的方法。

[*]　way

69. [解析]　arranged marriage意为“包办婚姻”，用过去分词表示被动，即“被包办的婚姻”。

[*]　arranged

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