20.
People living in the areas where
there is a lack of electricity often keep a supply of candles ___ power failure.
A. in case of B. once C. even
if
D. owing to
第三节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分)
Even though it was only
October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans. With each
passing day everyone became more __21__, waiting for the final school bell. Upon
its _22____everyone would run for their coats and go hone, everyone except
David.
David was a small boy in
ragged clothes. I had often _23___what kind of home life David had, and what
kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so __24__for the cold
winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David
__25__. I can still remember he was always __26__a smile and willing to help. He
always __27__after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never
talked much. He__28__just smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me
for letting him stay and slowly__29__home
Weeks passed and the
__30___over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of
__31__ before the holiday break. I smiled in ___32 __ as the last of them
hurried out the door. Tuming aroumd I saw David __33__ standing by my desk.
“I have something for
you, “he said ___34__ from behind his back a small box. __35__it to me, he said
anxiously. “open it. ” I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly
unwrapped it. I lifted the lid and to my __36__ I saw nothing, I looked at David’s
smiling face and back into the box and said, “The box is nice, David, but
it’s__37__.”
“Oh no it isn’t,” said
David. “It’s full of love, my mum told me before she died that love was
something you couldn’t see or touch unless you know it’s there.”
Tears filled my eyes
__38__ I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given____39__to. After
that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning
__40__the little empty box set on my desk.