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单独成册：对应学生用书第300页 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Often referred to as Black Friday in the US，the Friday after Thanksgiving marks the start of the Christmas holiday shopping season，during which crowds of consumers are drawn to retailers(零售商)offering special deals.Many people start shopping for the Christmas season. According to the Oxford English Dictionary(OED)，the day after Thanksgiving has been called Black Friday since at least the early 1960s.One theory is that the term Black Friday comes from an old way of recording business accounts.Losses were recorded in red ink and profits in black ink.Many businesses，particularly small businesses，started making profits ahead of Christmas.Many hoped to start showing a profit marked in black ink on the day after Thanksgiving Day. However，the black ink explanation is probably not the origin of the term.The more likely story is that “Black Friday” started out as a joking reference to how bad the traffic would be on this day.Due to the inflow(流入)of enthusiastic shoppers into city centers，the over-crowding was the worst all year. Early quotations in the OED indicate that the term may have originated among police officers and bus drivers，who no doubt would have feared the heavy traffic.The use of this term seems to have started in Philadelphia，Pennsylvania，before spreading to other areas of the country. In the United Kingdom，Black Friday was a historic nickname(绰号)within the emergency services for the last Friday before Christmas，as this is the most popular night for office Christmas parties，which consequently makes it one of the busiest nights in the year for ambulances and the police.The Friday is referred to as Black Eye Friday，due to the extremely high number of fights that break out in bars，pubs and clubs in some areas. In 2013，it started to be named Mad Friday，probably to avoid confusion with the American shopping phenomenon at the end of November called Black Friday，as this began to be adopted by increasing UK retailers. [语篇解读]　本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了美国