完形填空部分（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36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
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.”
36．A．down below B．just around C．next to D．above
37．A．rising B．appearing C．falling D．standing
38．A．water B．trees C．dust D．mud
39．A．just B．already C．yet D．still
40．A．so B．but C．for D．since
41．A．nothing B．everything C．anything D．something
42．A．made B．found C．shared D．built
43．A．possible B．necessary C．important D．valuable
44．A．worried B．disappointed C．puzzled D．impressed
45．A．them B．herself C．them all D．her
46．A．support B．supply C．grow D．keep
47．A．explained to B．asked for C．talked with D．spoke as
48．A．actually B．then C．before D．later
49．A．had killed B．might be killed C．had been killed D．killed
50．A．for B．as C．like D．that
51．A．you B．us C．Christmas D．your birthday
52．A．get B．send C．buy D．make
53．A．for B．from C．like D．with
54．A．sad B．happy C．worried D．sorry
55．A．It B．She C．Such D．I