Read the texts below. For questions (35 - 46) choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D). Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

18th-century America's Santa Claus was not the only St. Nicholas-inspired gift-giver to make an appearance at Christmastime. Similar figures were popular all over the world. Christkind or Kris Kringle (35) ___to deliver presents to well-behaved Swiss and German children. Meaning "Christ child", Christkind is an angel-like figure often (36) ___by St. Nicholas on his holiday missions. In Scandinavia, a jolly elf named Jultomten was thought to deliver giftsina sleigh drawn by goats. English legend explains that Father Christmas visits each home (37) ___ Christmas Eve to fill children's stockings with holiday treats. Pere Noel is responsible for filling the shoes of French children. In some regions of Russia, it is believed that an elderly woman called Babushka

(38) ___gave the wise men wrong directions to Bethlehem so that they couldn't find Jesus.

Later, she felt remorseful, but could not find (39) ___to undo the damage. To this day, on January 6, Babushka visits Russian children leaving gifts at (40) ___ bedsides in the hope that one of them is the baby Jesus and she will be forgiven. In Italy, a similar story exists about a woman called La Befana, a kindly witch who rides a broomstick down the chimneys of Italian homes to deliver toys into the stockings of lucky children.

35 A believes B believing C was believed D believed

36 A accompanying B accompanied C to accompany D accompany

37 A on B at C in D for

38 A purposeful B purposive C purposeless D purposely

39 A men B the men C the man D a man
40 A their B they C theirs D them

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