完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
There Really Was a Santa Claus
Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her ________ was to go to the post office every day and ________ the company mail. One day in December, she ________ a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus ________ on the corner of the street. Each day she ________ her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and ________ her a Merry Christmas.
At night the temperature dropped below 0℃, but the Santa Clause ________ stood in the cold wind. ________ she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.
A week later, a(n) ________ Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “He’s very ________ today.” She prayed for his health.
Later that day, a colleague came into her office ________ . “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “It’s my ex-husband,” her colleague ________ , “I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas, ________ my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they won’t have anything this year.” The lady ________her colleague, “I’m sure everything will ________ . It’s Christmas. Believe in miracles(奇迹).”
That evening, she told her husband about her colleague’s ________, “I know we don’t have much money to ________ , but I’d like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. We’ll just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldn’t afford to buy anything for ________ but we still had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled, “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”
She reached up and held him. Warmth spread ________ her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus – and he had ________ her!
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| A.family |
B.job |
C.life |
D.religion |
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| A.receive |
B.go through |
C.answer |
D.pick up |
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| A.spotted |
B.watched |
C.sensed |
D.followed |
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| A.standing |
B.waiting |
C.playing |
D.performing |
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| A.earned |
B.counted |
C.saved |
D.threw |
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| A.send |
B.wish |
C.offer |
D.tell |
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| A.even |
B.just |
C.still |
D.yet |
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| A.Although |
B.If |
C.Since |
D.After |
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| A.honest |
B.new |
C.considerate |
D.strong |
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| A.sad |
B.poor |
C.cold |
D.sick |
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| A.in tears |
B.in shock |
C.in horror |
D.in trouble |
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| A.concluded |
B.decided |
C.continued |
D.commented |
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| A.or |
B.but |
C.so |
D.otherwise |
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| A.reminded |
B.amused |
C.teased |
D.comforted |
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| A.work out |
B.come back |
C.run out |
D.open up |
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| A.message |
B.suggestion |
C.situation |
D.example |
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| A.lend |
B.help |
C.lose |
D.pay |
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| A.ourselves |
B.themselves |
C.us |
D.others |
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| A.off |
B.to |
C.among |
D.through |
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| A.relaxed |
B.doubted |
C.married |
D.shaped |
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