题目内容：

完形填空

   阅读下面短文 掌握其大意 然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Why am I bringing a 10-pound (4.5kg) pumpkin upstairs? Why am I washing it? Why am I cutting it with a big       ? Why am I carving (雕刻) a Jack O’Lantern?

October 31 is       . During this holiday kids      on people’s doors asking for sweets. There are orange and black things in the houses. Jack O’Lanterns are one of these things! People carve them out of empty      .

A lot of houses don’t carve Jack O’Lanterns. They just have fake (假的)  . It’s      to buy a fake one, and a fake Jack O’Lantern doesn’t go      .

Not me! I am going to make the       thing. I am going to carve a face on a pumpkin!

The first thing for me to do is to       the pumpkin. It has lots of dirt on it. Then I have to cut open the top and take out the inside.

This is not easy. It takes two hours to      out the inside with a big knife. I      the seeds, as they can be eaten. I cut three triangles (三角形) in the side. Two triangles will be the eyes, and       is a nose. At the       I cut out a mouth. I am so      of my work. I take it outside.

Three days later, the inside goes gray. A few days after that, the thing is black. The pumpkin is going bad! By Halloween, the Jack O’Lantern will be      ! I should have got a fake one.

1.A. scissor     B. knife       C. spoon      D. fork

2.A. Easter     B. Thanksgiving C. Halloween D. Christmas

3.A. knock     B. shut         C. hit      D. paint

4.A. pumpkins B. watermelons C. potatoes D. stones

5.A. thing     B. things     C. one      D. ones

6.A. different B. easy         C. difficult D. unusual

7.A. away     B. bad         C. wrong      D. by

8.A. real     B. true         C. correct     D. right

9.A. cut     B. carve         C. wash      D. weigh

10.A. pick     B. look         C. empty      D. find

11.A. plant     B. collect         C. save      D. keep

12.A. another B. other         C. others      D. the other

13.A. top     B. left         C. bottom D. right

14.A. glad     B. proud         C. angry      D. confident

15.A. broken B. gone         C. dead      D. lost