雅思听力背景材料：An American Christmas_雅思英语听力

雅思听力背景材料：An American Christmas

　　As Christmas came closer, the whole neighborhood had made preparations too. Some people would hold parties at their houses, inviting all their neighbors to come. So every night, if you went out, you would see a long line of cars parked in front of some house--a partys on!

　　Whats more, the Christmas decorations that some people put on their windows and in gardens were just amazing. On one night, we went out in our car for a tour of lights. There was one street that was so famous for its lights that it got its way into the local paper. We had a hard time finding the well-hidden street, but it turned out to be worth the effort. Lights shone brightly in front of nearly every house, on trees, bushes, doors, windowseverywhere, taking different shapes, making it seem almost like daytime. Huge inflatable figures in the front gardens were waving to us: there were Santa Clauses2, of course, chuckling merrily away; and there were also other Christmas figures, like Rudolph3--the red-nosed reindeer--with his red nose gleaming ever so brightly; even Bart Simpson--a character in the famous comedy The Simpsons--had joined the jolly party, wearing a Santas hat. The street set off a lot of oohs and aahs inside the car.4 When we left, there was a line of cars in the street, all there to see the lights.

　　Christmas is the time for exchanging presents. Stephen and Niko had been thinking about their Christmas lists for a long time. I didnt want to ask for anything, but the Stapczynskis were so kind to forceme make one list as well . So I wrote down a couple of things that I would like to have, and gave the list to them--sorry, my mistake--to Santa.