阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans. With each passing day everyone became more __1__wthting for the final school bell. Upon its _2____everyone would run for their coats and go hone, everyone except David

David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often _3___what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so __4__for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David __5__I can still remember he was always __6____a smile and willing to help. He always __7__after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much He__8___just smile and ask what else he could do ,then thank me for letting him stay and slowly__9___home

Weeks passed and the __10___ovre the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of__11__before the holiday break. I smiled in ___12_as the last of them hurried out the door. Turning around I saw David ___13___standing by my desk.  

 “I have something for you” he said ____14____from behind his back a small box. __15___it to me, he said anxiously. “Open it “I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. I lift the lid and to my __16__saw nothing I looked at David‘s smiling face add back into the box and said. “The box is nice, David, but it’ s__17__”

 “Oh no it isn’t” said David “It’s full of love, my mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn’t see or touch unless you know it’s there”

Tears filled my eyes ___18___Iooked at the proud dirty race that I had rarely given____19___to. After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning ___20___the little empty box set on my desk      

1.A. anxious      B. courageous        C. serious          D. cautious

2.A. warning      B. ringing           C. calling          D. yelling

3.A. scolded      B. wondered          C. realized         D. learned

4.A. modestly     B. naturally         C. inaccurately     D. inappropriately

5.A. popular      B. upset             C. special          D. funny

6.A. expressing   B. delivering        C. wearing          D. sharing

7.A. practised    B. wandered          C. studied          D.  stayed

8.A. would        B. should            C. might            D. could

9.A. aim at       B. turn to           C. put off          D. head for

10.A. argument    B. excitement        C. movement         D. program

11.A. school      B. year              C. education        D. program

12.A. relief      B. return            C. vain             D. control

13.A. weakly      B. sadly             C. quietly          D. helplessly

14.A. searched    B. found             C. raised           D. pulled

15.A. Holding     B. Handing           C. Sending          D. Leaving

16.A. delight     B. expectation       C. appreciation     D. surprise

17.A. cheap       B. empty             C. useless          D. improper

18.A. as          B. until             C. because          D. though

19.A. advice      B. support           C. attention        D. command

20.A. from        B. behind            C. over             D. towards

 Mary and I see each other ________, but not as often as we used to.  

A. sooner or later    B. once in a while        C. in the end        D. more or less  

 I was out of town at the time, so I don’t know exactly how it _______.  

A. was happening        B. happened       C. happens         D. has happened  

 It saves tome in the kitchen to have things you use a lot _______ easy reach.  

A. near        B. upon        C. within        D. around  

 ------shall we have our picnic tomorrow?

-----______it doesn’t rain.  

A. Until        B. While        C. Once        D. If  

 Amy joined a painting group but didn’t seem to _______, so she left.  

A. show        B. go up        C. fit in        D. come over  

 ------Poor Steve! I could hardly recognize him just now!

------_______________, He has changed so much.  

A. Never mind         B. No problem         C. Not at all        D. Me neither  

 -------He says that my new car is a ____________ of money.  

-------Don’t you think those words are just sour grapes?

A. lack        B. load         C. question         D. waste  

 The little girl who got lost decided to remain _________she was and wait tor her mother.  

A. where         B. what         C. how         D. who  

 So sudden ________that the enemy had no time to escape.  

A. did the attack       B. the attack did       C. was the attack      D. the attack was