15.
A.Grateful
B.Clever C.Rich D. Poor
D
Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a
very ____1____ woman. She didn’t buy many jwwels(珠宝) or ___2___ clothes. ____3___, she
spent millions of dollars in __4____ a house. She began to do it at the age of
45. The strange thing about Sarah’s ___5___ was that it seemed never finished.
The work on the house went for 38___6___ because Sarah was afraid to ___7____
building it.
Sarah’s house was near San Jose. Every day, a
lot of ___8___ arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more
doors and more windows, ___9___ the workers kept on building them. The house
was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and
1,000______10_______. There were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47
fireplaces.
Why did Sarah want a house
the kept getting ___11___? It was because Sarah was afraid of ___12___. She
thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didn’t want her house
to be finished.
Sarah Winchester’s
____13___ seemed to have worked(奏效) ___14___ she lived to be 83 years
old. But __15__ her house was finished.