1 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落的开头语续写两段话，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home, and I told her everything. “No Santa Claus?” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don’t believe it. “Now, put on your coat, and let’s go.”

“Go where, Grandma?” I asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. “Take this money, and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.

I was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, holding that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker, who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. I knew that because he never went out for break during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough, and he didn’t have a coat. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I chose a red one, which looked really warm, and he would like that.

“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid ten dollars down. “Yes.”

The nice lady smiled at me, put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
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That evening, Grandma helped me wrap (包裹) the coat in Christmas paper.

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Grandma and I waited breathlessly for Bobby Decker’s front door to open.

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2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

For months, people have told inspiring stories about their battle against COVID-19 in newspapers and videos. 65-year-old Zhao Wei     1     (complete) 65 eggshell painting works related to COVID-19 since January. She is willing     2     (donate) her creations to museums to let more people know the stories.

    3     a traditional Chinese folk art, painting on eggshells has a history of more than 2.000 years. When a baby is born, friends and relatives will send eggs     4     (color) red as good luck gifts. From a variety of egg options, she chose duck eggs and chicken eggs this time,     5     can offer her more space to describe stories.

Drawing on a curved surface is quite different from doing so on     6     flat piece of paper, " Zhao said,     7     (note) that the pigments (颜料 ) cannot be too dry nor too wet. Each of his paintings     8     (feature) vivid details. The wrinkles on doctors’ protective suits and naughty expressions in children’s eyes can be     9     (clear) seen on the painted eggshells. "Although I cannot go to the frontline and save     10     (life), I can tell the heroic stories through drawing and inspire more people to defeat the coronavirus,” said Zhao

3 . The winter holiday season is the busiest time of the year in the US, and Thanksgiving is the one holiday this time of year that doesn’t get the attention it deserves — it is often overshadowed by Christmas. However, I still feel the festive atmosphere in my family.
Each year, I attend not just one Thanksgiving dinner, but typically between three and four. Thanksgiving lasts all throughout the second half of the week. I travel to different houses to spend time with different parts of my family. We usually eat a giant amount of traditional Thanksgiving foods such as deviled eggs, ham, green beans, potatoes, and breads. We don’t eat the traditional turkey like many families do, but we have just about everything else that someone would want to eat.
After eating, we sit around and chat. Usually someone has brought a guest, such as a new boyfriend/girlfriend or a new baby, so there’s always a chance to get to know the new family member, as well as catching up with family that I haven’t seen for a long time.
My extended families are very different, which makes for different holiday experiences. My mother’s family is very polite and quiet, and that makes the dinner with them seem very formal. My father’s family is the opposite. They’re loud and don’t even try to control what words come out of their mouths. Their Thanksgiving usually includes yelling at whatever football game is on the television. It’s very casual and relaxed. Either way, it’s nice to be able to see my family and spend time with them.
In my eyes, Thanksgiving is a holiday based on being thankful for what you have, spending time with family, and eating a lot more food than you probably should. Not all these things go with its history, but it makes for a nice tradition.
1. The underlined word“overshadowed”in the first paragraph probably means ________.

A．compared

B．celebrated

C．related

D．made to feel less important

2. How does the author usually celebrate Thanksgiving?
a. eating turkey.
b. chatting with her family.
c. watching the annual Thanksgiving shows on TV.
d. attending several Thanksgiving dinners with different parts of her family.

A．a, b.

B．a, c.

C．b, d.

D．c, d.

3. What does the author think of her parents’families?

A．She thinks that her parents’families have a lot in common with each other.

B．She believes that her mother and father’s families should learn from each other.

C．She prefers her father’s family’s casual way of celebrating Thanksgiving to her mother’s family’s way.

D．She enjoys spending time both of her parents’families although they are quite different.