完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Year after year my brothers, sister and I would lie in bed awake on Christmas morning. We were just
36 to hear my father’s voice saying it was all right to
37 . Usually I was the first one jumped out of bed. I can still
38 my growing eagerness(渴望) for the
39 every year.
Even now as I
40 the boxes of Christmas decorations(装饰品) I can see the familiar ones: the presents with our birth years on them, our five stockings, four for the
41 , one for the dog. It used to be easy for us to
42 when to put up the decorations. But now since we all have
43 and social lives, it is usually a hurried activity.
As we get older, the season almost brings a
44 to a little place in our hearts. The worst was year after my grandparents had
45 . We couldn’t go to their house to celebrate the holiday anymore.
46 , we just had a get-together in my house. Now when I
47 to it, I miss the special
48 my grandfather gave me for Christmas. I even miss him
49 me “Jessie”, even though I can’t
50 when people call me that.
Things change, not always for the good,
51 not always for the bad either. And the things that don’t
52 have the most important meaning to us, and I am sure they will be there for the
53 of our lives. After all, every time I hear my father’s
54 “All right you guys, come on down, nice and slow” and we go down the stairs, first my brother, then me, then my sister, then my older brother, I still
55 the true Christmas spirit.
| 小题1: |
| A．advising |
B．starting |
C．wishing |
D．forgetting |
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| 小题2: |
| A．come up |
B．come down |
C．come on |
D．come out |
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| 小题3: |
| A．discover |
B．understand |
C．receive |
D．remember |
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| 小题4: |
| A．year |
B．season |
C．habit |
D．result |
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| 小题5: |
| A．throw away |
B．set down |
C．look through |
D．give up |
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| 小题6: |
| A．kids |
B．girls |
C．boys |
D．babies |
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| 小题7: |
| A．wonder |
B．get |
C．record |
D．decide |
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| 小题8: |
| A．toys |
B．balls |
C．jobs |
D．candies |
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| 小题9: |
| A．surprise |
B．pain |
C．joy |
D．disappointment |
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| 小题10: |
| A．died |
B．failed |
C．succeeded |
D．married |
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| 小题11: |
| A．Possibly |
B．Indeed |
C．Instead |
D．Luckily |
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| 小题12: |
| A．move back |
B．turn back |
C．step back |
D．think back |
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| 小题13: |
| A．gifts |
B．news |
C．replies |
D．tools |
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| 小题14: |
| A．bringing |
B．calling |
C．telling |
D．introducing |
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| 小题15: |
| A．follow |
B．listen |
C．watch |
D．stand |
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| 小题17: |
| A．change |
B．grow |
C．appear |
D．happen |
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| 小题18: |
| A．beginning |
B．rest |
C．truth |
D．happiness |
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| 小题19: |
| A．letters |
B．dreams |
C．promises |
D．words |
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| 小题20: |
| A．need |
B．hate |
C．feel |
D．doubt |
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