Ann worked for a big company.One of the duties of her__21__was to go to the post office every day and__22__the company mail.One day in December, she__23__a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus__24__on the corner of the street. Each day she__25__her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and__26__her a Merry Christmas. At night the temperature dropped below 0℃,but the Santa Claus__27__stood in the cold wind.__28__she dropped her coins into his bowl,she handed him a pair of gloves. A week later,a(n)__29__Santa Claus was standing there.“What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked.He told her,“He’s very__30__today.” She prayed for his health. Later that day,a colleague came into her office__31__.“I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked.“It’s my exhusband,” her colleague__32__,“I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas,__33__my exhusband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they won’t have anything this year.” The lady__34__her colleague,“I’m sure everything will__35__. It’s Christmas.Believe in miracles (奇迹).” That evening,she told her husband about her colleague’s__36__,“I know we don’t have much money to__37__,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__38__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__39__her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus—and he had__40__her! 21.A.family B.job C.life D.religion 22.A.receive B.go through C.answer D.pick up 23.A.spotted B.watched C.sensed D.followed 24.A.standing B.waiting C.playing D.performing 25.A.earned B.counted C.saved D.threw 26.A.send B.wish C.offer D.tell 27.A.even B.just C.still D.yet 28.A.Although B.If C.Since D.After 29.A.honest B.new C.considerate D.strong 30.A.sad B.poor C.cold D.sick 31.A.in tears B.in shock C.in fright D.in trouble 32.A.concluded B.decided C.continued D.commented 33.A.or B.but C.so D.otherwise 34.A.reminded B.amused C.teased D.comforted 35.A.work out B.come back C.run out D.open up 36.A.message B.suggestion C.situation D.example 37.A.lend B.help C.lose D.pay 38.A.ourselves B.themselves C.us D.others 39.A.off B.to C.among D.through 40.A.relaxed B.doubted C.married D.shaped
答案: 21-25BDAAC 26-30BCDBD 31-35ACBDA 36-40CBADC (每题1.5分)