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第二节: 完形填空（共20小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big  36 , and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house was    37   enough to escape the flood, so when the water had  38  and the other houses were  39  there with 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,  40   Anna took in one of the families that had lost  41   in the flood and she  42  her home with them until it was  43  for them to rebuild their house.
Anna’s friends were  44  when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give  45  so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to  46  .
“Well,” Anna  47  her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very  48  , because her husband had been killed in the  49  and she had a lot of children,  50  I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to  51  only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a  52  who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our  53  ,’ she said to her children.
　The children were  54  and happy to get such a present. They  55 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. Such was that Christmas present.”
36. A. earthquake    B. accident         C. flood             D. fire
37. A. below        B. high              C. big          D. small
38. A. reduced      B. come         C. appeared     D. disappeared
39. A. rising         B. flowing       C. falling        D. standing
40. A. so           B. but                C. for          D. since
41. A. nothing       B. everything    C. anything     D. something
42. A. gave            B. found       C. shared       D. built
43. A. possible      B. necessary       C. important      D. obvious
44. A. worried      B. disappointed   C. puzzled      D. satisfied
45. A. them          B. herself              C. him         D. us
46. A. support       B. supply        C. grow        D. educate
47. A. explained to   B. asked for      C. talked with    D. turned up
48. A. sad          B. poor         C. rich          D. happy
49. A. war           B. storm              C. rain          D. flood
50. A. because       B. as           C. which          D. that
51. A. get            B. send          C. buy          D. make
52. A. boy            B. girl        C. student           D. teacher
53. A. child           B. daughter       C. sister           D. present
54. A. angry          B. excited        C. lovely          D. sorry
55. A. disliked       B. gained       C. welcomed      D. led