Do you know who Father Christmas is?It is said that in the year of 300 AD ,there was a kind old man 小题1:____namewas Saint Nicholas.He was always ready to help 小题2:____poor and often gave presents to them .
Today ,Father Christmas is an imaginary figure,but nearly all young children believe 小题3:___ him .They think he is an 小题4:____ (interest) old man with a long white beard and a long red robe. 小题5:____the night of the twenty-fourth of December every year, Father Christmas from some cold northern land comes down the chimney of the fireplace .He 小题6:____(put) presents in the kids’ stockings by their beds .So when children go to bed that night ,they hang their stockings.On Christmas morning they wake小题7:____(find) them full of presents .Of course , 小题8:____ is really their parents who fill the stockings .
For today’s Christians,the origin of Christmas is the birth of Jesus Christ as 小题9:____（record） in the Bible.However, most of what we witness on December 25th each year has absolutely nothing to do with that blessed day, 小题10:_____probably occurred in late summer or early fall about 2,000 years ago .In fact,most of the customs and traditions of Christmas actually came into being before the birth of Jesus .