完形填空(共20小题; 每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be
36 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d
37 ?” Just when I started to
38 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women
39 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll, I felt such a sense of
40 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to s
chool. I wasn’t
41 . Somebody had thought
42 of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my
43 Christmas there special and memorable, I
44 remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of
45 for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I
46 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school suppliers,
47 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were
48 . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I
49 them that they couldn’t open their presents
50 every child had come forward. Finally the
51 they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles
52 up the room. The
53 in the room was obvious, and
54 wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew
55 that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
| 小题1: | | A．sending | B．receiving | C．making | D．exchanging |
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| 小题2: | | A．found | B．prepared | C．got | D．expected |
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| 小题3: | | A．doubt | B．hope | C．suggest | D．accept |
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| 小题4: | | A．broke in | B．settled down | C．turned up | D．showed off |
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| 小题5: | | A．relief | B．loss | C．achievement | D．justice |
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| 小题6: | | A．blamed | B．loved | C．forgotten | D．affected |
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| 小题7: | | A．highly | B．little | C．poorly | D．enough |
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| 小题8: | | A．present | B．first | C．recent | D．previous |
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| 小题9: | | A．hardly | B．instantly | C．regularly | D．occasionally |
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| 小题10: | | A．strength | B．independence | C．importance | D．safety |
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| 小题11: | | A．kept up with | B．caught up with | C．came up with | D．put up with |
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| 小题13: | | A．fine | B．special | C．helpful | D．normal |
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| 小题14: | | A．reminded | B．guaranteed | C．convinced | D．promised |
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| 小题15: | | A．after | B．until | C．when | D．since |
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| 小题16: | | A．chance | B．gift | C．moment | D．reward |
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| 小题17: | | A．lit | B．took | C．burned | D．cheered |
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| 小题18: | | A．atmosphere | B．sympathy | C．calmness | D．joy |
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| 小题19: | | A．it | B．such | C．something | D．everybody |
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