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Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big   1   , and a lot of houses down
below Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was   2   enough to escape the flood, so when the water
had   3   and the other houses were standing there   4    no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥), her house was just all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children,   5   Anna took in one
of the families that had lost    6   in the flood and she    7   her home with them until it was   8    for them
to rebuild their house.
Anna's friends were    9   when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted
to give   10   so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to  11  .
"Well," Anna  12   her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then
lived found herself very  13   , because her husband had been killed in the  14    and she had a lot of
children,  15   I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, 'We won't be able
to have much for  16    this year, so I'm going to make only one present to all of us. Now I'll go and get it.'
She came back with a   17   who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. 'Here's our  18   ,'
she said to her children.
The children were   19   and happy to get such a present. They   20  the little girl, and she grew up as
their sister. Such was that Christmas present."

(     )1. A. earthquake       (     )2. A. below           (     )3. A. reduced          (     )4. A. to              (     )5. A. so              (     )6. A. nothing           (     )7. A. gave             (     )8. A. possible         (     )9. A. worried           (     )10. A. them            (     )11. A. support         (     )12. A. explained to     (     )13. A. sad             (     )14. A. war            (     )15. A. because         (     )16. A. Obon           (     )17. A. boy            (     )18. A. child           (     )19. A. angry           (     )20. A. disliked

B. accident     B. high       B. come           B. of          B. but         B. everything     B. found       B. necessary     B. disappointed   B. herself      B. supply      B. asked for     B. poor         B. storm       B. as           B. Halloween    B. girl        B. daughter     B. excited      B. gained

C. flood     C. big          C. appeared   C. by           C. for         C. anything     C. shared       C. important    C. puzzled       C. him          C. grow         C. talked with   C. rich        C. rain       C. which        C. Thanksgiving C. student      C. sister      C. lovely      C. welcomed

D. fire         D. small       D. disappeared D. with         D. since       D. something   D. built       D. obvious     D. satisfied   D. us           D. educate     D. turned up   D. happy       D. flood       D. that         D. Christmas   D. teacher     D. present     D. sorry       D. led

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