Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses
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
there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥) , her house was
quite 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 houses.
Anna's friends were puzzled （迷惑的）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 support .
"Well," Anna
her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I later lived found herself very poor, because her husband
in the war 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
this year, so I’m going to
only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back
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 happy to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister.
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．just | B．already | C．yet | D．still |
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| 小题5: | | A．nothing | B．everything | C．anything | D．something |
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| 小题6: | | A．made | B．found | C．shared | D．built |
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| 小题7: | | A．possible | B．necessary | C．important | D．valuable |
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| 小题8: | | A．them | B．herself | C．them all | D．her |
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| 小题9: | | A．explained to | B．asked for | C．talked with | D．spoke as |
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| 小题10: | | A．had killed | B．might be killed | C．had been killed | D．killed |
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| 小题12: | | A．you | B．your birthday | C．Christmas | D．us |
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| 小题13: | | A．get | B．send | C．buy | D．make |
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| 小题14: | | A．for | B．from | C．like | D．with |
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