题目内容：

Last Friday night I was leaving Joe’s art class and heading to Roscoe for dinner with friends. Instead of taking the highway, I ______ to drive down Roscoe’s little main street. Roscoe s is a fairly ______ town, though it does have a traditional main street. I ______ that people there had already put up their holiday ______. There were few cars in the street so I look ray time driving ______ and enjoying each light. Yes, it was the first week of November and ______ not close to Thanksgiving Day, but they were still pretty.

The next day, I walked into a kid’s store to ______ chiffon (雪纺绸) flowers for a hat I was knitting (编织). An employee came out of the back room ______ some beautiful holiday decorations. She saw me and ______ explained that she wasn’t really decorating for Thanksgiving for fear that I would ______ her. There was just a weekend event that ______ some holiday cheer, but afterward all the decorations would be taken down. Her ______ confirmed the fact that holiday decorations were clearly important ______ her. I knew she was just following the decorating ______: Put it up—take it down-put it up again.

After a deep ______ about the two events, 1 have decided that this year I’m just going to ______ what I see. It doesn’t matter what holiday it is or if it’s up or down at the “correct” time.______ ifs pretty, ifs going to make me delighted. Sometimes, I think we make ourselves a little ______ trying to follow rules that are not really important, or trying to be ______ or not to stand out in the neighborhood. This year I’m going to see the holiday decorations wherever they are and whenever they are and just be ______.

1.A. hesitated    B. refused    C. decided    D. remembered

2.A. noisy    B. small    C. popular    D. crowded

3.A. admitted    B. imagined    C. suspected    D. realized

4.A. lights    B. tables    C. camps    D. notices

5.A. politely    B. patiently    C. slowly    D. hurriedly

6.A. ever    B. even    C. only    D. just

7.A. make    B. try    C. provide    D. seek

8.A. carrying    B. hiding    C. checking    D. collecting

9.A. clearly    B. angrily    C. immediately    D. gratefully

10.A. hate    B. misread    C. punish    D. beat

11.A. expressed    B. followed    C. offered    D. required

12.A. explanation    B. approval    C. worries    D. excitement

13.A. on    B. to    C. of    D. with

14.A. styles    B. records    C. rules    D. skills

15.A. celebration    B. thought    C. determination    D. relaxation

16.A. question    B. believe    C. ignore    D. appreciate

17.A. So long as    B. Even if    C. As if    D. As soon as

18.A. indifferent    B. curious    C. hopeless    D. crazy

19.A. traditional    B. optimistic    C. unique    D. stubborn

20.A. calm    B. careful    C. happy    D. polite