Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big
, and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house was
enough to escape the flood, so when the water had
and the other houses were
there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥), her house was just all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children,
Anna took in one of the families that had lost
in the flood and she
her home with them until it was
for them to rebuild their house.
Anna’s friends were
when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give
so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to
.
“Well,” Anna
her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very
, because her husband had been killed in the
and she had a lot of children,
I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to
only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a
who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our
,’ she said to her children.
The children were
and happy to get such a present. They
the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. And I was that Christmas present.”
| 小题1: | | A．earthquake | B．accident | C．flood | D．fire |
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| 小题2: | | A．below | B．high | C．big | D．small |
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| 小题3: | | A．reduced | B．come | C．appeared | D．disappeared |
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| 小题4: | | A．rising | B．flowing | C．falling | D．standing |
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| 小题6: | | A．nothing | B．everything | C．anything | D．something |
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| 小题7: | | A．gave | B．found | C．shared | D．built |
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| 小题8: | | A．possible | B．necessary | C．important | D．obvious |
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| 小题9: | | A．worried | B．disappointed | C．puzzled | D．satisfied |
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| 小题10: | | A．them | B．herself | C．him | D．us |
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| 小题11: | | A．support | B．supply | C．grow | D．educate |
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| 小题12: | | A．explained to | B．asked for | C．talked with | D．turned up |
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| 小题14: | | A．war | B．storm | C．rain | D．flood |
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| 小题15: | | A．because | B．as | C．which | D．that |
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| 小题17: | | A．boy | B．girl | C．student | D．teacher |
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| 小题18: | | A．child | B．daughter | C．sister | D．present |
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| 小题19: | | A．angry | B．excited | C．lovely | D．sorry |
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| 小题20: | | A．disliked | B．gained | C．welcomed | D．led |
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