完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Year after year my brothers, sister and I would lie in bed awake on Christmas morning. We were just 36 to hear my father’s voice saying it was all right to 37 . Usually I was the first one jumped out of bed. I can still 38 my growing eagerness(渴望) for the 39 every year.
Even now as I 40 the boxes of Christmas decorations(装饰品) I can see the familiar ones: the presents with our birth years on them, our five stockings, four for the 41 , one for the dog. It used to be easy for us to 42 when to put up the decorations. But now since we all have 43 and social lives, it is usually a hurried activity.
As we get older, the season almost brings a 44 to a little place in our hearts. The worst was year after my grandparents had 45 . We couldn’t go to their house to celebrate the holiday anymore. 46 , we just had a get-together in my house. Now when I 47 to it, I miss the special 48 my grandfather gave me for Christmas. I even miss him 49 me “Jessie”, even though I can’t 50 when people call me that.
Things change, not always for the good, 51 not always for the bad either. And the things that don’t 52 have the most important meaning to us, and I am sure they will be there for the 53 of our lives. After all, every time I hear my father’s 54 “All right you guys, come on down, nice and slow” and we go down the stairs, first my brother, then me, then my sister, then my older brother, I still 55 the true Christmas spirit.
1.A．advising B．starting C．wishing D．forgetting
2.A．come up B．come down C．come on D．come out
3.A．discover B．understand C．receive D．remember
4.A．year B．season C．habit D．result
5.A．throw away B．set down C．look through D．give up
6.A．kids B．girls C．boys D．babies
7.A．wonder B．get C．record D．decide
8.A．toys B．balls C．jobs D．candies
9.A．surprise B．pain C．joy D．disappointment
10.A．died B．failed C．succeeded D．married
11.A．Possibly B．Indeed C．Instead D．Luckily
12.A．move back B．turn back C．step back D．think back
13.A．gifts B．news C．replies D．tools
14.A．bringing B．calling C．telling D．introducing
15.A．follow B．listen C．watch D．stand
16.A．and B．so C．but D．thus
17.A．change B．grow C．appear D．happen
18.A．beginning B．rest C．truth D．happiness
19.A．letters B．dreams C．promises D．words
20.A．need B．hate C．feel D．doubt
It was in the office my sister works I met the new manager.
A. that; that B. where; where C. that; where D. where; that
I lived in you call “ancient Greece” and I used to write about the Olympic Games a long time ago.
A. that B. which C. what D. where
They told me that the museum was well worth .
A. visiting B. being visited C. to visit D. to be visited
She came back with her two friends, .
A. neither of them are doctors B. neither of them is a doctor
C. neither of whom are doctors D. neither of whom is a doctor
---- He admitted in the examination.
---- That’s why he was not admitted universities or colleges.
A. cheating; to B. cheating; by C. to cheat; to D. to cheat; by
