holidays are the busiest times of the year at airports, train stations and bus stations. It seems that all America is on the move and Americans are on their way to spend the holidays with their loved ones.

This means that the house will be full of cousins, aunts and uncles that might not see each other during the year. Everyone joins in to help in the preparation of the festival. Some family members get to choose a Christmas tree to buy and bring home. Others decorate the house or wrap presents. And of course, each household needs to make lots of food!

At Christmas Eve gatherings adults have eggnog, which is made of cream, milk, sugar beaten eggs and brandy. Plenty of eggnog or hot cocoa is on hand in colder climates for carolers, or people who go from house to house sing Christmas carols to their neighbors.

Long ago, each child hung a stocking, or sock, over the fireplace. Santa entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the children. Today the tradition is carried on, but the socks are now large red sock-shaped fabric bags still called stockings. Each child can't wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the stocking.

Giving gifts is a Christmas tradition. However, in recent years, more and more people have complained that Christmas is too commercialized（商业化）especially in large cities. Store owners begin advertising and decorating very early in hopes of selling more goods. Some people believe that the origin of Christmas has been lost. 1. Americans keep it a traditional custom____________.

A.to buy Christmas trees and bring them to churches for Christmas B.to drink beer on Christmas Eve

C.to go home for Christmas with their family and relatives D.to hung stockings on the chimney

2.According to the context, the underlined word \ A.drink B.food C.egg D. present

3.Children hung stockings over the fireplaces in order to____________. A.get some eggnog B. have a look at Santa C.get some candy and presents

D.get some money from his/ her parents

4.In the passage, \ A. Americans are awake moving around on Christmas Eve B. Americans have the largest number of cars in the world

C. America is shaking because Americans are gathering in the holidays everywhere D. Americans are busy preparing for the Christmas holidays

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必修三unit1 短语和句子参考答案

时间:30分钟 分值:38分 一、基础过关:短语填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分, 满分15分）

1.take place 2.reminded; of 3.keep your word 4.set off 5.have fun with 6.in memory of 7.turn up 8.dress up 9. play a trick on 10. Looking/Look forward to

二、能力提升:课文回顾（共10小题，每小题1.5分, 满分15分）

1.celebrations 2.dead 3.be held 4.energetic 5.which/that 6.as 7.in 8.exciting 9.before 10.with

三、拓展应用：阅读理解（共4小题, 1. C 2. A 3. C 4. D

每小题2分, 共计8分）32