Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big , and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house was enough to escape the flood, so when the water had and the other houses were there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥), her house was just all right. Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children, Anna took in one of the families that had lost in the flood and she her home with them until it was for them to rebuild their house. Anna’s friends were when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to . “Well,” Anna her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very , because her husband had been killed in the and she had a lot of children, I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our ,’ she said to her children. The children were and happy to get such a present. They the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. And I was that Christmas present.” 小题1: A．earthquake B．accident C．flood D．fire 小题2: A．below B．high C．big D．small 小题3: A．reduced B．come C．appeared D．disappeared 小题4: A．rising B．flowing C．falling D．standing 小题5: A．so B．but C．for D．since 小题6: A．nothing B．everything C．anything D．something 小题7: A．gave B．found C．shared D．built 小题8: A．possible B．necessary C．important D．obvious 小题9: A．worried B．disappointed C．puzzled D．satisfied 小题10: A．them B．herself C．him D．us 小题11: A．support B．supply C．grow D．educate 小题12: A．explained to B．asked for C．talked with D．turned up 小题13: A．sad B．poor C．rich D．happy 小题14: A．war B．storm C．rain D．flood 小题15: A．because B．as C．which D．that 小题16: A．get B．send C．buy D．make 小题17: A．boy B．girl C．student D．teacher 小题18: A．child B．daughter C．sister D．present 小题19: A．angry B．excited C．lovely D．sorry 小题20: A．disliked B．gained C．welcomed D．led