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The Christmas Tree.

No one _1_ for sure who decorated the first Christmas tree. The_2_ of bringing an
evergreen tree indoors and _3_ it at Christmas started in Germany. One _4_ says
that Martin Luther started the practice. Luther was an important Christian_5_ .
According to the story, he noticed the starlit sky as he walked home one
Christmas Eve about the year 1513.He thought the stars looked as if they were
shining on the branches. When he arrived home, Martin Luther placed a small fir
tree _6_ his house. He decorated it with lighted candles.

Decorating Christmas trees became _7_ in
Germany. Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, the German husband of Queen
Victoria, took the tradition to England. Both German and English people brought
it to America. And now nearly every family in Great Britain and the USA has a
_8_ tree.

The biggest Christmas tree in Britain is
put up in Trafalgar Square in _9_ .

The people of Norway still give this
tree every year to the _10_ to thank them for helping Norway against Hitler in
the second World War.

1)a) knows b) begins c) decides d) is
2) a) tree b) legend c) story d) custom
3) a) showing b) giving c) putting d) decorating
4) a) story b) legend c) fairy d) novel
5) a) man b) saint c) leader d) woman
6) a) inside b) outside c) upside d) offside
7) a) comfortable b) beautiful c) public d) popular
8) a) Christmas b) fir c) pine d) birch
9) a) London b) Paris c) Moscow d) Madrid
10) a) French people b) British people c) Irish people d) Russian people