词语填空（15分）
Christmas Day, the 25th of December, is the 1___ festival in the Christian countries of the world. Christmas Day is particularly enjoyed
by children, who get very excited because 2__ the presents they know they are going to receive. Small children believe that 3___ presents are brought by Father Christmas. Father Christmas is a kind old man who, the children are told, lives at the North Pole. He 4___ through the sky on a sledge(雪橇) which is pulled by deer and loaded with presents. Stopping on the roofs the houses, he enters by 5___ down the chimney （烟囱）。 When small children go to bed on Christmas Eve, they 6___ a stocking at the end of their beds. Their parents order them not 7_ to look at Father Christmas or he will not leave them _8_ . When they wake up, they find their stockings ____9__with presents. Children __10___ very excited on Christmas morning and always wake up early.
Christmas is a family celebration. As 11___ of the family as possible gather together to eat, play party games and, these days, watch the special Christmas programmes on TV.
Everyone 12__ two or three days off work for Christmas. In Britain the day after Christmas is __13 Boxing Day. This is a great day for ___14 , and many go out to watch football matches, etc. 15__ most people stay at home and have a lazy day.
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2.of,
3. their,
4.travels,
5.climbing,
6.hang,
7.to try,
8.anything,
9.filled, 10.are, 11.many, 12.gets, 13.called, 14.sports, 15.though
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Whales live in the sea, but they 1_________ fish. They are mammals. The baby whales drink milk from the 2________body. Every spring 3_________of whales swim hundreds of kilometers to warm places to have their babies. Each mother whales 4_________to the same place every year. The mothers take very good care of 5_______. The whales 6_______ to each other with a high noise, it sounds like 7______. This “talking” can 8_________ for 9_________ than 300 kilometres.
10_____ people kill over a hundred whales a day. They kill them 11_____ many things. 12_______ them is a modern business. The whales dies very 13________ in great pain. More and more whales are killed by people , even the mothers and babies. 14___________ the things goes on like this, there will be no young whales to grow up and no mother whales to 15________ more babies.
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2. mothers’
3. groups
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5. their
6. talk
7. singing
8. be heard
9. more 10. Yet 11. to make 12 Killing 13. slowly 14. If 15. have
词语填空（共15小题，计15分）
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。
Many American youngsters earn their allowance by doing odd jobs for their neighbors. Babysitting is one of the common of these . Most couples do not have maids or relatives with them, and they need
