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020. 听下面材料，回答第(1) (2) (3) 题。
(1) Where do people want to spend Christmas?
A. In the park.
B. At home.
C. In the open air.

(2) What do the children want to get most?
A. Presents from Father Christmas.
B. Presents from their friends.
C. Presents they buy in big shops.

(3) What do parents like to take their children to see?
A. The animals.
B. Their grandparents.
C. Their friends.

原文+答案解析

020.
Christmas is a festival for family members to get together for reunion and people who live away to get back home. The roads and railways are full of people traveling long distances in order to spend Christmas at home. And above all, it's the children's festival.
The children count the weeks, then the days to Christmas. They are wondering what they are going to have; they keep trying to find something out from their mother, but the only thing the mother will tell them is stories about Father Christmas who brings presents to good children.
Christmas Eve comes at last. When the children go to bed, they hang up their stockings, and on Christmas morning they wake up to find them full of presents. Of course it's really their parents who fill the stocking, but even the older children often pretend not to know this.
Everybody likes to be happy at Christmas time. The theater puts on special shows for children. The circus is another thing that parents may take their children to see. Here, the audience sit in a circle and the performance takes place in the center. The main attraction is the peforming animals. Elephants, lions and tigers are trained to do astonishing tricks. Every circus has clowns who make people laugh.

答案解析：
(1) 正确答案为B。根据a festival for family members to get together for reunion 圣诞节是一个让家人团聚的节日，可知，人们希望在家中过圣诞节。因此B项正确。
(2) 正确答案为A。根据Father Christmas who brings presents to good children. 圣诞老人会给好孩子带来礼物。可知，孩子们最希望得到的就是圣诞老人的礼物，因此A项正确。
(3) 正确答案为A。根据The circus is another thing that parents may take their children to see. The main attraction is the peforming animals. 家人会带孩子去看马戏表演。最吸引人的就是动物表演。可知，家长会带孩子去看动物。因此A项正确。