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.

A．advising B．starting C．wishing D．forgetting

A．come up B．come down C．come on D．come out

A．discover B．understand C．receive D．remember

A．year B．season C．habit D．result

A．throw away B．set down C．look through D．give up

A．kids B．girls C．boys D．babies

A．wonder B．get C．record D．decide

A．toys B．balls C．jobs D．candies

A．surprise B．pain C．joy D．disappointment

A．died B．failed C．succeeded D．married

A．Possibly B．Indeed C．Instead D．Luckily

A．move back B．turn back C．step back D．think back

A．gifts B．news C．replies D．tools

A．bringing B．calling C．telling D．introducing

A．follow B．listen C．watch D．stand

A．and B．so C．but D．thus

A．change B．grow C．appear D．happen

A．beginning B．rest C．truth D．happiness

A．letters B．dreams C．promises D．words

A．need B．hate C．feel D．doubt