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范畴：人与社会 主题：庆祝活动 体裁：说明文 难度：★★★ 建议用时：6分钟 评价：____/10
阅读短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词，或用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空。
Do you know Pattaya? It’s in Thailand. All year round, visitors from all over the world come here to see beautiful 1. ________（beach）. But in February this year, things were a little different. Many people came to 2. ________ place for its kite festival. Yes, it was the Pattaya International Kite Festival! In 2023, the festival was celebrated 3. ________ February 24th to 28th. The city held it on the beach in front 4. ________ a shopping centre. And it was free! In those five days, people could always see different kites flying in the sky.
Every day, it 5. ________（start） at noon and ended at 6:00 in the afternoon. There were many fun activities to do. People could see some really big kites, and some of 6. ________（they） were over 500 metres long. When it got dark, there 7. ________（be） also an LED kite show. It looked so beautiful that many people took photos. And people could learn a lot about kites from the show. They could 8. ________ learn how to make kites in stores. The festival just 9. ________（bring） fun to visitors of all ages. They were all interested in flying kites and 10. ________（walk） along the beach, and they wanted to visit the city later.

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本文主要介绍了泰国的芭堤雅和它的国际风筝节。
1. beaches 句意：一年四季，来自世界各地的游客来到这里观赏美丽的海滩。此处表示泛指，且空格前无冠词，故用beach的复数形式beaches。
2. the 根据上文可知，今年二月份，许多人为了风筝节来芭堤雅这个地方，此处用定冠词the，表示特指。
3. from 此处用固定介词短语“from... to...”，意思是“从……到……”。
4. of 此处是固定短语in front of，意思是“在……之前”。
5. started 句意：每天中午开始，下午6点结束。根据and后面的ended可知，时态为一般过去时，故此处填start的过去式started。
6. them 根据句意理解可知，人们可以看到一些非常大的风筝，其中一些超过500米长。空格前的of为介词，后面要接代词宾格，故此处答案应该填them。
7. was 此句是there be结构，前面的got是过去式形式，所以此处be动词也要用过去式，an LED kite show是单数，故此处答案应该填was。
8. also 根据前句理解可知，人们可以从这次展览中学到很多关于风筝的知识，再结合本句可知，他们也可以在商店学到如何制作风筝，所以此处需要副词also，是“也”的意思。
9. brought 上下文都是一般过去时，所以此处谓语动词也要用过去式。
10. walking 此处是固定短语be interested in doing sth.，意思是“对做某事感兴趣”，其后接动词时，需要用动名词形式，and前面为flying kites，and后面也要用动名词形式。