一Why do children hang stockings over the fireplace for presents?一As the story goes, to help a poor family, Father Christmas threw a small bag of gold down the chimney and it fell into a stocking that＿up to dry over the fireplace.

— The room is dirty. — I know. It ______ for several weeks.

There was a knock at the door. It was the second time someone _______ me that evening.

The whole family were sound asleep when the disaster_____.

We'd better take umbrellas—I'm sure it____when we arrive in London; it's always wet there at this time of year．