[填空题]The Mid-summer Day, a hundred-year-old tradition in Scandinavia, falls on June 22nd or 23rd, when the sun will reach its highest point in the sky, to create the longest day of the year. In (36) part of Scandinavia, one can see the (37) sun and the night never reaches complete darkness.
Many places celebrate Mid-summer on St. John’s day, June 24th, while in Sweden it is honored on the Friday (38) to June 20. Many centuries ago this day was to pay (39) to water, fire and plants. It was also a time to cleanse one’s soul. However, over time, this holiday lost much of its (40) meaning. Actually, Mid-summer marks a change in the farming year, specially the break between the completion of spring (41) and the hard work of summer hay-making in Scandinavia, and in such Eastern European countries as Estonia and Lithuania.
How did and do people celebrate the festival
Family and friends get together to (42) themsel

[填空题]The Mid-summer Day, a hundred-year-old tradition in Scandinavia, falls on June 22nd or 23rd, when the sun will reach its highest point in the sky, to create the longest day of the year. In (36) part of Scandinavia, one can see the (37) sun and the night never reaches complete darkness.
Many places celebrate Mid-summer on St. John’s day, June 24th, while in Sweden it is honored on the Friday (38) to June 20. Many centuries ago this day was to pay (39) to water, fire and plants. It was also a time to cleanse one’s soul. However, over time, this holiday lost much of its (40) meaning. Actually, Mid-summer marks a change in the farming year, specially the break between the completion of spring (41) and the hard work of summer hay-making in Scandinavia, and in such Eastern European countries as Estonia and Lithuania.
How did and do people celebrate the festival
Family and friends get together to (42) themsel

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It was the day I froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home, rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn’ t completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absent-mindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately found them just before my highly sensitive tropical fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish.
Nonetheless, that near-death experience--for the fish, if not for me--woke me up to the fact that my memory might not be all it once was:
In the hope of improving my memory, I decided I would first try the memory books. How-ever, much of what I read was, at first blush, utterly forgettable.
If I was truly going to juice up my recall, however, book reading wouldn’t cut it. What I needed was some k
A. didn’t help at all
B. caused new problems
C. wouldn’ t work at once
D. made her problem worse