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  3. Christians have generally regarded Christmas as both a holy day and holiday. 【M1】______ Customs of all lands have been added up

Christians have generally regarded Christmas as both a holy day and holiday. 【M1】______ Customs of all lands have been added up

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问题     Christians have generally regarded Christmas as both a holy day and holiday. 【M1】______
Customs of all lands have been added up through the centuries, making 【M2】______
Christmas today as the greatest folk festival in the world. 【M3】______
    Log was adopted to the English custom from the ancient Scandinavian 【M4】______
practice of kindling huge bonfires in the honor of the winter solstice. The 【M5】______
idea of using evergreens at Christmas time also came to England from
pre-Christian northern European beliefs. Celtic and Teutonic tribes hon
ored these plants at their winter solstice festivals as symbolic for eternal 【M6】______
lives. The custom of the Christmas tree believes to have begun by Martin 【M7】______
Luther in Germany. The sight of an evergreen tree on Christmas eve, with stars
blazing above, is said to have made a great impression on him, and he puts a 【M8】______
similar tree, decorated with lit candles, in his home. 【M9】______
    A well-loved Christmas custom is the singing of Christmas carols. Thir
teenth century Italy is considered the birthplace of the real Christmas carol,
and St. Francis of Assisi was thought to be the father of this custom. 【M10】______
【M2】
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解析 动词词组add up表示“累加，合计”，它不同于add意为“增加，相加”。从本句话的意思上来看应是“来自不同地区的风俗经过数百年的积累……”，因此应选用add。注意不要将有些动词的含义和它的动词词组的含义相混淆，正如speak和speak out的意思不同一样。在考试中经常会有这样的错误即用动词的词组来替换动词本身，这一点应引起考生的注意。
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