高一英语。
Few people in China know the public holiday Hallowmas (November 1st), and even fewer know its eve──Halloween, a much more joyful one to children. Every year when Halloween is held throughout the United States. American children, dressed in costumes (服装) as witches (巫婆) and spirits, modern heroes or old-time bad eggs, go from door to door for trick or treat. If the adults refuse to give them a treatcandy, cookies, fruit, the children may play a trick. If there are no people in the house, this family may be punished by tricks. The typical Halloween tricks are soaping the windows, writing on the doors with crayon (蜡笔), overturning the garbage cans or sticking coins into doorbells to keep them ringing, sometimes putting an old car on the roof of the house.
1. Hallowmas is ________.
A. the name of an important person in the USA
B. American children's Day
C. an American public holiday
D. celebrated throughout the world
2. Halloween is held ________.
A. on the morning of November 1st
B. throughout October 31st
C. on the evening of October 31st
D. after Hallowmas
3. American children like Halloween very much because ________.
A. their parents let them go out to play
B. their neighbours come out to play with them
C. they have the chance to punish the family they hate
D. they can dress up in strange clothes and play tricks
4. Which of the following statements is correct? ________
A. The writer thinks it right to play tricks on others.