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小题1:后半夜来了一场暴风雨，大雨倾盆而下。我们躲进了自己搭起来的避雨棚，让木筏顺流而下。
There was a big storm after midnight and the rain _____ ______. We stayed inside the _____ we had built and let the _____ sail down the river.
小题2:作家的生活经历常常和他们所创造的角色的生活经历相似。马克吐温也不例外。
Often the lives of writers_______ the lives of the characters they ______. Mark Twain is _____ _______.
小题3:欧洲是狂欢节的发源地，在那里，狂欢节过后会有40天不食肉的日子。这期间，人们准备迎接基督教的节日——复活节。
In Europe, ______ it began, _______ was followed by forty days without meat, as people ______ ______ the Christian festival of Easter.
小题4:那时，他们把自己的脸涂成白色，模仿并取笑他们的主人。
They ______ their faces white, imitating their masters and _____ ______ _____ them.
小题5:但就是这种失败感，使他决心在新的生活中取得成功。
But it was this _____ _______ ______ that made him determined to ______in his new life.
小题1:poured down shelter raft
小题2:resemble create no exception
小题3:where carnival prepared for
小题4:painted making fun of
小题5:sense of failure succeed
题目分析：
小题1:考查词组：倾盆而下poured down ；考查单词：避雨棚shelter ；木筏raft
小题2:考查单词：相似resemble ；创造：create ，词组：不例外no exception
小题3:where引导的是定语从句，修饰Europe，狂欢节carnival ，为…做准备：prepared for注意用过去时。
小题4:考查单词：涂成painted 词组：取笑make fun of因为和imitating并列，所以用现在分词。
小题5:考查词组：失败感sense of failure “成功”的动词是succeed
考点; 考查完成句子
点评：根据汉语完成句子，首先比较汉语英语，找出所缺单词短语，还要根据句意和上下文选用正确形式，考查平时对单词短语的记忆是否牢，还有在具体语言环境中的灵活使用。