[单项选择]On Christmas Eve in America the shopping malls are saturated with shoppers in a frantic competition for last minute gifts.
A. bustled
B. soared
C. filled
D. broadened

[单项选择]On Christmas Eve in America the shopping malls are saturated with shoppers in a frantic competition for last minute gifts.
A. busted
B. soared
C. filled
D. broadened

[单项选择]Shopping malls customarily experience some slack periods for sales, especially so in summer.
A. successive
B. lasting
C. prosperous
D. dull

[单项选择]Shopping malls have some advantage in suffering from shorter periods of______business.
A. stale
B. slack
C. ferrous
D. abundant

[单项选择]By the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves.
A. 20世纪70年代以后，很多购物中心都在其内部开发了一些小城。
B. 到20世纪70年代末，很多购物中心都几乎已经发展成为一座座小城。
C. 到20世纪70年代末，很多购物中心都在其内部开发了一些小城。
D. 20世纪70年代末，很多购物中心发展壮大，几乎变成一座座小城。

[单项选择]Christmas Eve is______.

[单项选择]On Christmas Eve, she spent two hours decorating the room with flower chains.
A. modifying
B. ornamenting
C. disposing
D. packing

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Christmas Eve(圣诞前夜) arrives at my house each year. The center of the celebration is dinner. My mother spends days preparing a rich variety of seafood. The guest list seldom changes. It is made up of my Aunt Marcy and her husband, my oldest brother, Sal, his wife, and their four children, my sister, Joann, her husband, and their two children, and my second brother, Richard, his wife, and their two children.
My aunt and uncle always come heavily loaded with enough food and wine for a whole army. My brother Sal and gang usually show up an hour early and empty-handed. Joann’s family is usually late while Richard’ s group generally arrives on time, bearing gifts for everyone. I am in charge of getting the Christmas tree. Plenty of food is served at the dinner table, and all the hours of preparation are wolfed down in a matter of minutes. Along with the yearly repeated menu comes the yearly repeated conversation.
Everyone talks about how good the food tastes
A. The rest of the guests
B. The children of the guests
C. The writer and her mother
D. Sal's family members

[单项选择]They had a party ______ Christmas Eve.
A. at
B. in
C. on
D. during

[单项选择]Stone Hill Mall is different from other malls because it has
A. more large department stores.
B. more empty space to rent.
C. many shops selling special goods.
D. shops selling expensive goods.