Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses
36 Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was high enough to escape the flood, so when the water had disappeared and the other houses were __
37 there with no roof and no walls and all covered with __
38 , her house was
39 quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children ,
40 Anna took in one of the families that had lost
41 in the flood and she
42 her home with them until it was
43 for them to rebuild their houses.
Anna's friends were
44 when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give
45 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to
46 ."Well," Anna
47 her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I
48 lived found herself very poor, because her husband
49 in the war and she had a lot of children,
50 I have now. The day before Christams, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for
51 this year, so I’m going to
52 only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back
53 a girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’ she said to her children. The children were
54 to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister.
55 was that Christmas present.
| 小题1: | | A．down below | B．just around | C．next to | D．above |
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| 小题2: | | A．rising | B．appearing | C．falling | D．standing |
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| 小题3: | | A．water | B．trees | C．dust | D．mud |
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| 小题4: | | A．just | B．already | C．yet | D．still |
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| 小题6: | | A．nothing | B．everything | C．anything | D．something |
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| 小题7: | | A．made | B．found | C．shared | D．built |
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| 小题8: | | A．possible | B．necessary | C．important | D．valuable |
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| 小题9: | | A．worried | B．disappointed | C．puzzled | D．impressed |
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| 小题10: | | A．them | B．herself | C．them all | D．her |
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| 小题11: | | A．support | B．supply | C．grow | D．keep |
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| 小题12: | | A．explained to | B．asked for | C．talked with | D．spoke as |
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| 小题13: | | A．actually | B．then | C．before | D．later |
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| 小题14: | | A．had killed | B．might be killed | C．had been killed | D．killed |
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| 小题16: | | A．you | B．us | C．Christmas | D．your birthday |
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| 小题19: | | A．sad | B．happy | C．worried | D．sorry |
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