All over Britain on Christmas Day, families can be found sitting around their dining tables enjoying a traditional lunch of roast turkey, and from old to young, wearing colored paper hats. It is said that even the Queen wears her paper hat over lunch!

So why this strange tradition? Where do these paper hats come from? The answer is the Christmas Cracker.

A Christmas Cracker is a cardboard paper tube, when the cracker is pulled apart by two people, the cracker makes a bang. Inside the cracker there is a paper crown made from tissue paper, a motto or joke on a piece of paper and a little gift.

Christmas crackers are a British tradition dating back to Victorian times when in the early 1850s.A man named Tom Smith sold sugars in London, he covered the sugars with paper package and added a motto to his sugars.

The paper hat was added to the cracker in the early 1900s. The cracker was soon taken as a traditional festive custom and today every family has at least one box of crackers to pullover Christmas.

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1.What will Britain do at lunch on Christmas Day?

A Singing.

B Dancing.

C Eating a roast sheep.

D Wearing a paper hat.

解析：选D。D 细节理解题。根据第一句…and from old to young, wearing colored paper hats.可知，故选D。

2.What is NOT in the Christmas Cracker?

A A gun.

B A motto.

C Joke on a piece of paper.

D A gift.

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据第3段最后一句…a motto or joke on a piece of paper and a little gift. 可知，故选A。

3.The word “gift” is similar to .

A sugar

B present

C telephone

D book

解析：选B。B 语义推测题。根据四个选项可推测出gift应是泛指，而不是某一特定的东西，B项present表示礼物，泛指，故选B。

4.When did Christmas crackers first come out？

A In the late 1850s.

B At Victorian times.

C In the early 1900s.

D In the late 1900s.

解析：选B。B 细节理解题。根据第4段第一句Christmas crackers are a British tradition dating back to victorian times可知，故选B。

5.What is the best title to the passage?

A The story of Christmas Crackers.

B The story of the queen.

C The story of Tom Smith.

D The story of Christmas paper hat.

解析：选D。D 文章标题题。从文章内容可知，文章是关于英国圣诞节戴帽子的由来，甚至连女皇都戴，故D项最契合文章内容，故选D。