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完形填空：选择正确答案，补全文章（每题10分）。
There is nothing in the US quite like Black Friday. Before midnight on Thursday, in malls across the US, people start queuing outside the locked entrances of stores, making longer and longer lines, coupons (优惠券), sipping coffee and hot chocolate, rubbing their hands and stamping (跺脚) their feet for warmth, chatting, and waiting for the clerks to open the door when the time arrives.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, which on Nov 28，2014, “has become in recent decades a special American holiday”, said the International Business Times. Indeed, up to 147 million Black Friday shoppers were expected to the dark of night and the elbows (手肘) of other shoppers so that they could bring home some bargains, according to the US National Retail Federation.
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解析：
1. 这里考查的是动词词组queue up的用法。queue up意为“排队等候”，at 和with 都不与queue搭配使用，所以选B。
2. 这里考查的是动词start + 动名词的用法。这里start 后面接的动词queuing，making, sipping, rubbing, stamping, chatting和waiting都是动名词形式, 而且是并列关系，因而hold也应该是动名词形式，所以选A。
3. 这里考查的是副词修饰动词的用法。excitement 是名词，意为“兴奋，激动”；excitedly 是副词，意为“兴奋地，激动地”，excited是形容词，有“兴奋的，激动的”之意。从词性的角度，修饰动名词chatting需要副词，所以选B。
4. 这里考查的是动词fall的过去式形式。fall是动词不定式，意为“来临”，fell 是fall的一般过去式，fallen是fall的过去分词。从时间状语判断，应该是一般过去时时态，此处应用fall的一般过去式，所以选C。
5. 这里考查的是动词put的固定搭配。put up with 是“忍受”的意思；put off有“推迟”之意；put down表示“记下，镇压”；另外，句子中表明黑色星期五疯狂购物状况：...the dark of night and the elbows of other shoppers so that they could bring home some bargains，即“......漆黑之夜和购物者的手肘, 以便他们能够把便宜货带回家”。所以选A。