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C
On Christmas Eve—the night before Christmas Day—children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.
Father Christmas is very kind-hearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.
Of course, Father Christmas isn’t real. In Jim and Kate’s house, "Father Christmas" is really Mr. Green. Mr. Green doesn’t climb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were very young, Mr. Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesn’t do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who "Father Christmas" really is. But they still put their stockings at the end of
A. the night of Christmas Day
B. the evening of Christmas Day
C. Christmas Day
D. the night before Christmas Day

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C
On Christmas Eve—the night before Christmas Day—children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.
Father Christmas is very kind-hearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.
Of course, Father Christmas isn’t real. In Jim and Kate’s house, "Father Christmas" is really Mr. Green. Mr. Green doesn’t climb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were very young, Mr. Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesn’t do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who "Father Christmas" really is. But they still put their stockings at the end of
A. into children’s hats
B. into children’s stockings
C. under children’s beds
D. into children’s shoes

[单项选择]C On Christmas Eve─the night before Christmas Day─children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night. Father Christmas is very kindhearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents. Of course, Father Christmas isnt real. In Jim and Kates house, “Father Christmas” is really Mr. Green. Mr. Green doesnt climb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were very young, Mr. Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesnt do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who “Father Christmas” really is. But they still put their stockings at the end of their beds. Christmas Eve is ________.
A. the night of Christmas Day
B. the evening of Christmas Day
C. Christmas Day
D. the night before Christmas Day

[单项选择]Never before that night ______ the extent of my own power.
A. did I feel
B. had I felt
C. I had felt
D. I did felt

[单项选择]Never before that night______the extent of my own power.
A. did I feel
B. had I felt
C. I had felt
D. I did felt

[单项选择]On the last shopping day before Christmas, stores across the United States were busy but not jam-packed as shoppers scrambled for last-minute gifts, even though some refused to admit it. At Boston’s Copley Mall, a small crowd gathered outside the main entrance of luxury department store Neiman Marcus, but no one waiting for the store to open would admit to being a last-minute shopper. "I’m really here to use a gift certificate and get something for myself and maybe someone else with what’s left over," said Matt Doran, who lives in Boston and had been waiting since 8:30 a.m. for the store’s 10 a.m. opening. Ilya Polykoff, who moved to Boston from Russia, said he was waiting "because I had the day off and I wanted to get some perfume." But he insisted that he was really shopping early because for him Christmas comes in January. The Orthodox Christmas will be celebrated on Jan. 7.
"There are lots of men out there today," said Karen McDonald, a spokes-woman for mall operator Taubman
A. Last-Minute Christmas Shoppers Fill U.S. Stores
B. Digital Watches Are the Red hot Items This Year
C. The Excuse of the Last-Minute Shoppers
D. Christmas, the Best Shopping Season

[单项选择]Before Christmas all the shops are （　） with customers.
A. loaded
B. jammed
C. charged
D. mixed

[单项选择]Last Christmas we spent ______ the whole night going to family rows.
A. absolutely
B. practically
C. entirely
D. eventually

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It was the night before the composition was due. As I looked at the list of topics(题目), "The Art of Eating Spaghetti (意大利面条) "caught my eyes. The word "spaghetti" brought back the (21) of an evening at Uncle Alien’s in Belleville (22) all of us were seated around the table and Aunt Pat (23) spaghetti, for supper. Spaghetti was an exotic (外来的) treat in (24) days. Never had I eaten spaghetti, and (25) of the grown-ups had enough experience to be good at it. What laughing (26) we had about the socially respectable method for moving spaghetti from plate to mouth. (27) ,I wanted to write about that, but I wanted to (28) it down simply for my own (29) , not for Mr. Fleagle, my composition teacher. As for him, I would write something else.
When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no (30) left to write a proper composition for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morni
A. excited
B. satisfied
C. think
D. laugh