2. 外语
  3. It is not easy to pin-point the【C1】______of the Christmas feast, today the most important feast of the Christmas season in most

It is not easy to pin-point the【C1】______of the Christmas feast, today the most important feast of the Christmas season in most

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问题     It is not easy to pin-point the【C1】______of the Christmas feast, today the most important feast of the Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say【C2】______that the birth of Jesus Christ was being【C3】______in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebrated in other Christian churches throughout the world.
    【C4】______ it was celebrated on December 25th is another【C5】______. No date for the【C6】______of Jesus can be found in the New Testament, which is concerned more【C7】______the question "Who is Jesus?"【C8】______the date of his birth. Early Christian speculation about his birth date was【C9】______by the symbolism of the changing seasons, then popular in【C10】______thought,【C11】______paid careful【C12】______to the equinoxes and solstices of the sun. Christian scholars speculated that Jesus was【C13】______at the spring equinox (March 25th) and therefore was born on December 25th, the date of the winter solstice.
    In many of the Christian【C14】______, March 25th is still the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel【C15】______to Mary that she【C16】______the mother of Jesus.
    【C17】______impulse for the feast of Christmas may have came too【C18】______the establishment of the pagan feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December 25, the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. 【C19】______, Christians could celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4,2), Jesus Christ, who called himself "【C20】______of the world."
【C15】
选项 A、claimed
B、reclaimed
C、pronounced
D、announced
答案D
解析 上下文题上文提到了annunciation，所以此处用announce(宣称)是最恰当的。
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