第24课（172字 2分钟）

Passage Twenty-four

（K4 level）

1.Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ, is the most important festival in Britain and some other countries.

2.On Christmas Eve, people usually tell their children to put their stockings at the end of their beds before they go to sleep.

3.Children believe Santa Claus, with the other name of Father Christmas, will come during the night and fill their stockings with Christmas presents.

4.Actually, Father Christmas is children‘s father.

5.He dresses up in a red coat and waits until children fall asleep.

6.Then he goes into children’s bedrooms, and puts small presents in their stockings.

7.When children are no longer young, they know who Father Christmas really is.

8.Not only children but also their parents enjoy Christmas stockings.

9.They also have stockings.

10.Early on the morning of Christmas Day, children wake their parents up and say“Merry Christmas”.

11.Then they help their parents open their stockings.

12.Everybody likes presents.

13.But it is better to give than to receive.

生词表（New Words）

1.Christmas Day 圣诞节              birthday 生日           festival 节日  

2. Christmas Eve 圣诞前夜          stockings 长袜  

3. Santa Claus 圣诞老人              Father Christmas 圣诞父亲 night 夜晚

presents 礼物 

4. father 父亲 

5.asleep 睡着 

6. bedrooms 房间                         stockings 长袜 

7. young 年轻                               know 知道 

8. parents 父母                              Christmas stockings 圣诞袜 

9. stockings 长袜 

10. morning 清晨                          wake 叫醒         Merry Christmas 圣诞快乐 

11. help 帮助                         open 打开 

12. everybody 每个人           presents 礼物 

13. give 给予                         receive 接受

1. 圣诞节，是耶稣基督的生日，是英国和其他一些国家最重要的节日。

2. 在圣诞前夜，人们通常告诉孩子们，在睡觉前把长袜放在床尾。

3. 孩子们相信圣诞老人，也叫圣诞父亲，会在夜里来，把圣诞礼物装进他们的袜子里。

4. 其实，圣诞父亲就是孩子们的父亲。

5. 他穿上一件红色外套，等孩子们睡着。

6. 然后他走进孩子们的房间，把小礼物放进他们的袜子里。

7. 当孩子们不再年轻时，他们知道圣诞父亲真正是谁。

8. 不仅孩子们，父母也喜欢圣诞袜。

9. 他们也有长袜。

10. 圣诞节的清晨，孩子们叫醒父母，说“圣诞快乐”。

11. 然后他们帮助父母打开他们的袜子。

12. 每个人都喜欢礼物。

13. 但给予比接受更好。