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I was only eight years when the Second World War ended, but I can still remember about the ___1___ celebrations (庆祝) in the small town where I lived on the day when the war in Europe ended. We had not ___2___ much from the war there, though, like most children of my age, I often saw ___3___ houses in the streets and very big ___4___ lorries (卡车) passing through. But both at home and at school I had become used to the phrases "before the war" and "when the war is over". "Before the war", obviously, ___5___ had been better, though I was too young to understand why, except that there had been no bombs (*弹炸**) then, and people had eaten things like ice-cream and bananas, which I had ___6___ heard of. "When the war is over" we would go back to London, but this meant very ___7___ to me. I did not remember what London was like.
1.A.war B.victory
C.Christmas D.birthday
2.A.suffered B.learnt C.heard D.read
3.A.crowded B.rebuilt
C.bombed D.building
4.A.modern B.old C.railway D.army
5.A.food B.things C.houses D.news
6.A.never B.hardly C.only D.already
7.A.much B.little C.great D.important
What I remember now about V-Day was the afternoon and the evening. Some boys and girls were collecting ___8___ and building an enormous bonfire (篝火). We stood and watched them for a time, and then I went home and ___9___ myself in with my key and waited for my parents to come back from work.
8.A.money B.wood
C.information D.clothes
9.A.showed B.allowed C.let D.called
It was May and still broad daylight when my mother arrived and my father came in about an hour later. After dinner I said I wanted to ___10___ the bonfire, so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very ___11___, and somehow people had collected some old clothes to ___12___ "Hitler" with the moustache (胡须) they had put on top of it. Just as we arrived, they set light to it. The flames ___13___ soon. Everyone was cheering and shouting. I stood beside my father until the fire started to go down, not knowing what to say. He said nothing, either. He had ___14___ in the First World War and remembered everything he had experienced. At last he said, "Well, that's it, son. Let's hope that this time it really will be the ___15___ one."
10.A.see B.light C.find D.put out
11.A.high B.hot C.dangerous D.far
12.A.draw B.paint C.write D.dress
13.A.disappeared B.happened
C.rose D.came
14.A.fought B.worked
C.grown D.changed
15.A.best B.worst C.first D.last