题目内容
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!
1.A. family B. job C. life D. religion
2.A. receive B. go through C. answer D. pick up
3.A. spotted B. watched C. sensed D. followed
4.A. standing B. waiting C. playing D. performing
5.A. earned B. counted C. saved D. threw
6.A. send B. wish C. offer D. tell
7.A. even B. just C. still D. yet
8.A. Although B. If C. Since D. After
9.A. honest B. new C. considerate D. strong
10.A. sad B. poor C. cold D. sick
11.A. in tears B. in shock C. in horror D. in trouble
12.A. concluded B. decided C. continued D. commented
13.A. or B. but C. so D. otherwise
14.A. reminded B. amused C. teased D. comforted
15.A. work out B. come back C. run out D. open up
16.A. message B. suggestion C. situation D. example
17.A. lend B. help C. lose D. pay
18.A. ourselves B. themselves C. us D. others
19.A. off B. to C. among D. through
20.A. relaxed B. doubted C. married D. shaped