In every country there are times to celebrate, weddings, birthdays, religious festivals. Although the U.S.A is a multi-cultural society, where different groups celebrate their own traditional   21  , Christmas is the most popular holiday in the U.S.A. Some of the   22   of Christmas time are old and others are newer.
Already in the late 18th and the 19th centuries, people felt sentimental (眷戀的) about Christmases of the past. The American   23  , Washington Irving, wrote in 1819 about the old-fashioned Christmas he experienced in England. He was taken in a stagecoach (驛站馬車) full of happy people, food and presents, to an old house in the   24  . There, he found a crowd of happy farmers, lots of food and drinks, snow, games and ghosts.
The first Christmas card, which was printed in England, showed people eating and drinking   25  . It was sent in 1846, but Christmas cards did not become really   26   until the 1860s, when color printing became possible.
By this time, stagecoaches had   27   running, replaced by the railroad. More and more families   28   the country and were living in towns and cities, but the dream of the   29   Christmas remained. The loaded stagecoach driving along the country road through the snow still   30   on many Christmas cards today.
小題1:
A．leftB．preferredC．a(chǎn)dmiredD．reached
小題2:
A．a(chǎn)mazingB．newC．merryD．old-fashioned
小題3:
A．turnsB．a(chǎn)ppearsC．putsD．gets

小題1:A   小題1:B  小題1:A    小題1:B    小題1:B
小題1:C   小題1:C  小題1:A    小題1:D    小題1:B

小題1:根據(jù)第一句可知，不同群體慶祝不同的傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日。故選A。
小題1:文章講的是傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日，與圣誕節(jié)有關(guān)的傳統(tǒng)既有舊的也有新的。故選B。
小題1:華盛頓歐文是一位作家。故選A。
小題1:根據(jù)下一句的farmers可知，他坐馬車是去鄉(xiāng)下的一個老房子。故選B。
小題1:考查形容詞辨析。A“危險地”；B“開心地”；C“平等地”；D“大方地”。圣誕卡上顯示人們在開心地吃飯和喝東西。故選B。
小題1:圣誕卡到十九世紀(jì)六十年代才開始流行。popular“流行的，受歡迎的”。故選C。
小題1:根據(jù)后半句可知，鐵路代替了馬車。stop doing sth.“停止做某事”。故選C。
小題1:越來越多的家庭離開鄉(xiāng)下，搬到城鎮(zhèn)或城市生活。故選A。
小題1: old-fashioned“老式的”。人們離開鄉(xiāng)下后，圣誕節(jié)的一些傳統(tǒng)保留了下來。故選D。
小題1:現(xiàn)在的許多圣誕卡上還會出現(xiàn)老式的馬車。appear“出現(xiàn)”。故選B。
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