题目内容：

    Little George Adamson ran to the window, hoping to find a white word. But once he drew the curtains, disappointment set in. It was another year without snow on Christmas.

In the UK, where he grew up, December is not a particularly snowy month, yet shops sell cards with white Christmas illustrations and restaurants are decorated with fake snow. This has always intrigued people like Adamson. Where are people taking on these expectations if they haven't lived them? Now, as a college teacher, Adamson knows who to blame for his misplaced expectations Charles Dickens, who populated his stories with snowy Christmas holiday.

Dickens “grew up during the coldest decade England has seen and his short stories and A Christmas Carol seem to owe we much to his impressionable years” , writes anthropologist Brian Fagan in his book .It was so icy during Dickens's early years that the River Thames froze in February of 1814 . For Dickens, who was born in 1812 . Christmas must have been a bitterly cold experience. Years later, when Dickens sat down to write his novels and short stories, the author populated them with his memories of what Christmas looked like back then.

But that doesn't mean a white Christmas' has been common in the decades since. Our program asked the Met Office for more information about Christmas snow in the UK, as tracked by their more than 200 stations across the country. Most years, no more than 20 stations report snow. In the UK, the Met Office explains, it is far more likely to see snow between January and March than in December.

Then how can one man's writing change our collective understanding of a climatic phenomenon?

Dickens is credited, particularly in Britain, as the man who made Christmas fashionable again. As the Industrial Age set in and people moved around the country, traditions and customs were lost. In the first decades of the 1800s, both Sir Walter Scott and Washington Irving felt sorry for the loss of former festivities. When Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 1843, Britons were attached to the holiday season, as many Britons missed the Christmas of their youth.

1.The underlined word “intrigued" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to        .

A.bored B.interested

C.upset D.delighted

2.Adamson's expectation of a white Christmas comes from    .

A.literary works B.climatic records

C.Christmas cards D.childhood experience

3.Why is Christmas white in Dickens's writing?

A.He was influenced by other writers of his time,

B.He intended to meet readers' expectation

C.The River Thames froze when he wrote the stories.

D.The snowy Christmas in his childhood impressed him .

4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.Sir Walter Scout was not in favor of Charles Dickens

B.Christmas was not fashionable before Charles Dickens was born

C.Dickens' literary work brought out the Christmas memories of Britons

D.The Industrial Age accounted for the passion for traditions and customs