Question

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 in 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.”

1.A. low            B. tall         C. high             D. strong

2. A. raised          B. risen        C. disappeared       D. appeared

3. A. windows       B. doors        C. roofs            D. floor

4. A. mud           B. plastics      C. trees            D. water

5. A. living          B. dead         C. angry          D. pleased

6. A. sharing        B. saving        C. remaining       D. sparing

7. A. gave         B. thought       C. hoped         D. completed

8.  A. divided      B. separated     C. shared         D. spared

9.  A. possible     B. satisfying     C. necessary      D. important

10. A. happy         B. interested    C. puzzled        D. sad

11.A. her           B. herself       C. her children    D. her friend

12. A. talked        B. apologized    C. explained      D. described

13.A. living        B. wounded      C. rich           D. poor

14. A. friends       B. children      C. neighbours      D. relatives

15. A. many        B. enough       C. beautiful       D. expensive

16.A. suitable      B. nice          C. old            D. new

17.A. home        B. flood         C. present        D. daughter

18.A. excited       B. worried       C. disturbed      D. disappointed

19.A. comforted     B. welcomed     C. taught        D. educated

20.A. Christmas     B. New Year     C. birthday       D. Thanksgiving

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.C

4.A

5.B

6.B

7.C

8.C

9.A

10.C

11.B

12.C

13.D

14.B

15.B

16.C

17.C

18.A

19.B

20.A

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