阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出一个最佳选项。

I was a single parent of four small children,working at a minimum—wage job.Money was always   1   I never   2   any in the bank.It was Christmas time,and although there wasn’t money for a lot of gifts,we planned to decorate our home and celebrate with friends.

But the big   3    for the kids was the fun of Christmas shopping at the mall.They talked and   4  for weeks ahead of time,asking each other and their grandparents what they wanted for Christmas.I dreaded it.I had   5   $100 for presents to be shared by all five of us.

    The   6  day arrived and we started out early.I   7  the money equally among us and reminded them to  8  gifts about four dollars each.Then everyone scattered for shopping.

Back in the car driving home,everyone was  9 high Christmas spirits,but my younger daughter,Ginger,was unusually  10 .I could  11  through the plastic bag that she had bought candy bars—fifty—cent candy bars! I was so angry.For what did you swap the twenty dollars you   12  from me? I wanted to yell at her,but I didn’t say anything   13   we got home.I   14  her into my bedroom and closed the door,ready to be  15  again when I asked her what she had done with the money.

    “I was looking around,thinking of what to buy,and I stopped to   16   the little cards on one of the Salvation Army’s Giving Trees.One of the cards was for a little girl,four years old, and all she wanted for Christmas was  17   with clothes and a hairbrush.So I   18   the card off the tree and bought the doll and hairbrush for her and took it to the Salvation Army booth.’’

    “I only had   19   money left to buy candy bars for us,” Ginger continued,” but we have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”

    I never felt so   20   as I did that day.

1.     A.tight           B.adequate      C.short           D.ample

2.     A.withdrew        B.deposited    C.stored          D.hid

3.     A.day             B.excitement                       C.time       D.wish

4.     A.asked           B.searched      C.planned         D.waited

5.     A.included        B.borrowed      C.saved           D.charged

6.     A.fine            B.fair          C.funny           D.big

7.     A.allocated       B.contributed    C.assigned       D.advocated

8.     A.look up         B.look for      C.look through    D.look into

9.     A.in              B.at            C.for             D.of

10.  A.happy           B.upset         C.noisy           D.quiet

11.  A.tell            B.think         C.believe         D.consider

12.  A.cheated         B.grasped       C.attained        D.stole

13.  A.unless          B.until         C.as              D.since

14.  A.found           B.forced        C.seized          D.called

15.  A.angry           B.curious       C.excited         D.surprised

16.  A.watch           B.read          C.enjoy           D.buy

17.  A.card            B.toy           C.gift            D.doll

18.  A.took            B.kept          C.turned          D.1eft

19.   A.little          B.no            C.enough          D.many

20.   A.glad            B.poor          C.rich            D.great

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