题目内容：

完形填写（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）

通读下面短文，根据短文内容，从每篇短文后各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

A Christmas Carol is a famous short novel     by Charles Dickens. It is about an old man named Scrooge who never laughs or smiles. He is      and only thinks about himself. He doesn’t treat others    .He just cares about    he can make more money and he hates Christmas. One Christmas Eve, Scrooge sees the ghosts of Jacob Marley, his dead business partner. Marley used to just like Scrooge, so he    after he died. He warns Scrooge to change his ways if he doesn’t want to end up like him. He also tells Scrooge to expect three spirits to visit him.

1.A. wrote         B. written           C. writing     D. was written

2.A. meaning       B. meant            C. mean       D. kind

3.A. good         B. nice             C. terribly      D. nicely

4.A. whether       B. if               C. that        D. what

5.A. punishes      B. is punished       C. punished    D. was punished