明成化斗彩:一些英语问题，我不懂。请高手帮帮忙

Every december millions of Christmas cards go through the post. There are pictures of stars and snow or Christmas t___. In there days it is hard to think of a Christmas w___ Christmas cards. Yet over a hundred and fifty years ago there were n____ at all.
Here is just one story to tell us how the Christmas cards started.

这是一部分。先请大家帮帮忙。。 填一下单词，首字母已经写出来了。
接下去的.
At that time some boys were staying at school. They had to write a special piece of English at Christmas t____.
This was sent to their p____ so that they could see how the boys' work was during the year .

Young people like to make little d____ on the paper when they write letters or poems . The boys were the s____. They often drew little pictures all r____ the writing. Sometimes they coloured them , and after a time the pictures b_____ more important than the writing. These were the f_____ Christmas cards.

拜托大家帮忙一下。谢谢。抱歉，文章有点长。多多费心了。