Задания 26-31
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Christmas
Christmas is the most important annual festival in both Britain and North America. In its origins, it combines the Christian ___CELEBRATE___ of the birth of Christ, on 25 December, with the ancient tradition of a winter feast during the darkest period of the year. Christmas carols – a special kind of religious songs – are an important part of it. You may hear them ___COUNT___ times over the radio but it is quite different when you listen to people sing carols around you in church.
At this time, too, many carol ___SING___ make door-to-door visits to people at home, collecting money for this or that charity. Many weeks before Christmas, shops start selling ___VARY___ Christmas cards and Christmas gifts. Shop ___OWN___ decorate their shops with holly, mistletoe, candles and colourful paper chains and lanterns. All kinds of traditional Christmas food are also ___WIDE___ available.
