语法填空训练(十七)

Crying marriage? 31 (surprise), isn’t it? Factually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and 32 (remain) in fashion 33 the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, 34 (especial) Tujia people, who view it as a necessity to marriage procedure.

It is very much 35 same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 36 , the bride’s neighbors would look down upon 37 as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases 38 which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

In a word, crying at wedding is a way by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 39 (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides _40___ cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.

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