Unit 2 Let's Celebrate! 课文语法填空（知识点总复习）-2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

新外研必修二 Unit 2 Let’s celebrate! Understanding ideas The Real Father Christmas Many people still remember the magic of Father Christmas from when they were children. As parents, they try to keep that magic ________ (live) for their children for as long as they can. That is _______ Letters from Father Christmas could be the perfect book for those who regard Christmas _________ a special time of year. The man who wrote these letters is one of the most famous _________ (name) in English literature — J.R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. The letters were Tolkien’s way of keeping Father Christmas alive for his four children, over a period of more than twenty years. Every Christmas, an envelope _________ a North Pole stamp arrived. It _________ (address) to Tolkien’s children. Who could it be from? The children must _________ (be) very excited as they opened it. Inside, they would find a handwritten letter from Father Christmas. The letters were also _________ (beautiful) illustrated — each must have taken its true author, Tolkien, a long time _________ (complete). The letters told wonderful stories about Father Christmas’s life and adventures at the North Pole. A regular character in the letters was Polar Bear, _________ once climbed the North Pole (an actual pole in this case) and _________ (fall) through the roof of Father Christmas’s house. In another letter, Father Christmas complained _________ how he could not stop his helpers _________ (play) games with the toys instead of _________ (wrap) them up. _________ (interesting), the letters did not contain the usual warnings to children that they might not receive their presents if they were not good. The letters did, ________, change as Tolkien’s children got older: ... but if you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite as many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and _________ (starve) people. Letters from