There Really Was a Santa Claus
Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her ______ was to go to the post office every day and ______ the company mail. One day in December, she ______ a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus ______ on the corner of the street. Each day she ______ her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and ______ her a Merry Christmas.
At night the temperature dropped below 0°C, but the Santa Claus ______ stood in the cold wind.______ she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.
A week later, a(n)______ Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “He’s very ______ today.” She prayed for his health.
Later that day, a colleague came into her office ______ “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “It’s my ex-husband,” her colleague ______, ’’I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas,______ my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they won’t have anything this year.” The lady ______ her colleague, “I’m sure everything will ______. It’s Christmas. Believe in miracles (奇迹).”
That evening, she told her husband about her colleague’s ______, “I know we don’t have much money to ______, 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 ______ 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 ______ her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus and he had ______ her!
| 【小题1】 | | A．family | B．job | C．life | D．religion |
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| 【小题2】 | | A．receive | B．go through | C．answer | D．pick up |
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| 【小题3】 | | A．spotted | B．watched | C．sensed | D．followed |
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| 【小题4】 | | A．standing | B．waiting | C．playing | D．performing |
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| 【小题5】 | | A．earned | B．counted | C．saved | D．threw |
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| 【小题6】 | | A．send | B．wish | C．offer | D．tell |
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| 【小题8】 | | A．Although | B．If | C．Since | D．After |
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| 【小题9】 | | A．honest | B．new | C．considerate | D．strong |
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| 【小题11】 | | A．in tears | B．in shock | C．in horror | D．in trouble |
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| 【小题12】 | | A．concluded | B．decided | C．continued | D．commented |
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| 【小题14】 | | A．reminded | B．amused | C．teased | D．comforted |
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| 【小题15】 | | A．work out | B．come back | C．run out | D．open up |
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| 【小题16】 | | A．message | B．suggestion | C．situation | D．example |
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| 【小题18】 | | A．ourselves | B．themselves | C．us | D．others |
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| 【小题20】 | | A．relaxed | B．doubted | C．married | D．shaped |
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