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A. present B. explained C. poor D. but E. nothing F. with G. everything H. why I. children J. build K. excited I. what |
Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood, and quite a
few houses were washed away,
1 Elizabeth's house was high enough to escape it. Elizabeth took in
one of the families which had lost
2 .She shared her home until the family could
3 another house.
Elizabeth's friends could not understand
4 she wanted to give so much when she already had so
many children to support. "Well," Elizabeth
5 to her friends, "at the end of the World War I, there was a
6 woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of
7 ,
just like me now. "
"The day before Christmas," this woman said to her children, "we won't be able to have much for
Christmas. I'm going to get just one
8 for us all. Now I'll go and get it." She came back
9 a little
girl who had no parents. "Here's our present," she said to her own children.
"The children were very
10 to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she
grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present. "