Elizabeth lived on the other side of a valley. One winter there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses down below Elizabeth’s were washed away. Elizabeth’s house was
21 enough to escape the flood, so when the water
22 and the other houses were standing there with no
23 and no walls and all covered with
24 ,her house was still quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was
25 and she had six children to support. Ten dollars a week, which was the total of their income, didn’t leave much for
26 . Expenses were always greater than Elizabeth had
27 , but she didn’t hesitate to help one of the families that lost everything i
n the flood and she
28 her house with them until it was
29 for them to move into their own houses.
Elizabeth’s friend was very
30 when she saw Elizabeth do this. She couldn’t understand why Elizabeth wanted to give
31 so much work and trouble to help others.
“Well,” Elizabeth
32 to her friend, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself
33 , because her husband had been killed in the war in Germany and she had a lot of
34 , as I have now.”
“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have
35 presents for all of us. I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who was in
36 clothes and crying in deep sorrow. The girl was an orphan(孤儿). ‘Here’s our
37 . She said to the children.
“The children were very
38 to have such a present. They
39 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. I was that
40 present.”
| 小题1: | | A．low | B．tall | C．high | D．strong |
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| 小题2: | | A．raised | B．risen | C．disappeared | D．appeared |
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| 小题3: | | A．windows | B．doors | C．roofs | D．floor |
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| 小题4: | | A．mud | B．plastics | C．trees | D．water |
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| 小题5: | | A．living | B．dead | C．angry | D．pleased |
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| 小题6: | | A．sharing | B．saving | C．remaining | D．sparing |
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| 小题7: | | A．gave | B．thought | C．hoped | D．completed |
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小题8:
| A．divided | B．separated | C．shared | D．spared |
小题9:
| A．possible | B．satisfying | C．necessary | D．important |
| 小题10: | | A．happy | B．interested | C．puzzled | D．sad |
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| 小题11: | | A．her | B．herself | C．her children | D．her friend |
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| 小题12: | | A．talked | B．apologized | C．explained | D．described |
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| 小题13: | A． living | B．wounded | C．rich | D．poor |
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| 小题14: | | A．friends | B．children | C．neighbours | D．relatives |
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| 小题15: | | A．many | B．enough | C．beautiful | D．expensive |
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| 小题16: | | A．suitable | B．nice | C．old | D．new |
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| 小题17: | | A．home | B．flood | C．present | D．daughter |
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| 小题18: | | A．excited | B．worried | C．disturbed | D．disappointed |
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| 小题19: | | A．comforted | B．welcomed | C．taught | D．educated |
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| 小题20: | | A．Christmas | B．New Year | C．birthday | D．Thanksgiving |
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