完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。   
Year after year my brothers, sister and I would lie in bed awake on Christmas morning. We were just  36   to hear my father’s voice saying it was all right to    37   . Usually I was the first one jumped out of bed. I can still    38   my growing eagerness(渴望) for the    39   every year.
Even now as I    40   the boxes of Christmas decorations(装饰品) I can see the familiar ones: the presents with our birth years on them, our five stockings, four for the    41   , one for the dog. It used to be easy for us to    42   when to put up the decorations. But now since we all have    43   and social lives, it is usually a hurried activity.
As we get older, the season almost brings a    44   to a little place in our hearts. The worst was year after my grandparents had    45   . We couldn’t go to their house to celebrate the holiday anymore.    46   , we just had a get-together in my house. Now when I    47   to it, I miss the special    48   my grandfather gave me for Christmas. I even miss him    49   me “Jessie”, even though I can’t    50   when people call me that.
Things change, not always for the good,    51   not always for the bad either. And the things that don’t    52   have the most important meaning to us, and I am sure they will be there for the    53   of our lives. After all, every time I hear my father’s    54   “All right you guys, come on down, nice and slow” and we go down the stairs, first my brother, then me, then my sister, then my older brother, I still    55   the true Christmas spirit.

A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she _____ play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. ______ she loved her parents and her family, she desired （渴望）to live in such a house and ______ all day about how wonderful and exciting _____ must feel to live there.

   At the age when she gained（获得） some ______ skill and sensibility (识别力), she ____ her mother for a bike ride ____ the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, ____ her keeping close to the house and not ____ too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew ____ where she was heading! ____ the hill and across the valley, she rode to the ____ of the golden house.

   ____ she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path（小路） ____ to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed （失望）when she ____ that all the windows were ____ and rather dirty.

   So ____ and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She ____ and all of a sudden she saw an amazing （令人惊奇的）____. There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she ____ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!

1.A. might B. should  C. would   D. must

2.A. Unless        B. Although       C. Since     D. But

3.A. dreamed    B. worried         C. asked    D. shouted

4.A. this    B. that       C. it   D. which

5.A. different    B. scientific        C. musical D. basic

6.A. begged       B. blamed责备 C. invited  D. paid

7.A. inside         B. outside C. through         D. along

8.A. insisting on         B. relying on      C.arguing about         D.wondering about

9.A. traveling    B. running          C. riding    D. walking

10.A. madly       B. rapidly  C. exactly  D. possibly

11.A. Over         B. Down    C. Around D. Beside

12.A. windows  B. steps     C. center  D. gate

13.A. Until         B. As C. While    D. Because

14.A. getting     B. introducing   C. leading D. moving

15.A. felt  B. Learned C. concluded   D. found

16.A.transparent       B. bright    C. plain      D. wide

17.A. anxious    B. angry    C. serious D. sad

18.A. turned around B. cheered up   C. settled down          D. dropped in

19.A. hill   B. valley    C. background  D. sight

20.A. imagined B. decided         C. realized         D. guessed

A rich man was camping（露营） alone on a hill. One day it began to rain and the rain made the tent（帐篷）wet. At last he 16 make his way home. As he passed(经过)17 beautiful house he  wanted to look  18  rest. A lady walked past him with her 19 holding up（举起） high. Following her were her two beautiful daughters. They stopped and stared at（瞪着）him  20.
“Who are you? We don’t like tramps（流浪汉） going  21 our home .”one of them shouted.
“Go away at once. ”cried the other.
“But I’m not a  22 . ”said the man, “All I want is food and stay for the night.”
“How  23 you come here? Go away at once!”they  24 , “We don’t like your feet around our house. Go, go!”
The man moved on and reached a  25 house. On entering (进入) it he saw a  26 preparing supper. Though the light was  27 and the furniture（家具） was old , it made him feel warm and comfortable（舒服）.
“Can I have some  28 and rest for the night? he asked.
“Of course,  29 , ”said the woman, giving a little chair for him. “We are going to  30 our supper. Come and  31 us.”
The food was not  32 but they shared（分享） it with the stranger（陌生人）. That night they let him sleep on their bed 33 they themselves used the stable. Early the next morning, the man said good-bye to them. Their  34 left him a memory(记忆) full of thanks.
When he reached home he  35 ordered（命令） a lovely house to be built for the poor but kind family in the woods.
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