完形填空部分（共20小题；每小题1.5分,满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses  36   Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was high enough to escape the flood, so when the water had disappeared and the other houses were __37   there with no roof and no walls and all covered with __38   , her house was   39   quite all right.

Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children ,   40    Anna took in one of the families that had lost   41    in the flood and she  42   her home with them until it was    43   for them to rebuild their houses.

Anna's friends were   44    when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give   45  so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to   46   .  

"Well," Anna   47  her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I  48   lived found herself very poor, because her husband   49    in the war and she had a lot of children,   50    I have now. The day before Christams, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for   51    this year, so I’m going to   52    only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back   53    a girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’ she said to her children. The children were    54    to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister.   55    was that Christmas present.”

36．A．down below       B．just around         C．next to       D．above

37．A．rising B．appearing  C．falling         D．standing

38．A．water         B．trees C．dust   D．mud

39．A．just    B．already       C．yet     D．still

40．A．so       B．but     C．for      D．since

41．A．nothing      B．everything C．anything    D．something

42．A．made B．found C．shared        D．built

43．A．possible     B．necessary  C．important  D．valuable

44．A．worried      B．disappointed      C．puzzled      D．impressed

45．A．them B．herself        C．them all     D．her

46．A．support      B．supply         C．grow  D．keep

47．A．explained to       B．asked for   C．talked with         D．spoke as

48．A．actually      B．then   C．before        D．later

49．A．had killed   B．might be killed   C．had been killed  D．killed

50．A．for      B．as       C．like     D．that

51．A．you     B．us       C．Christmas D．your birthday

52．A．get     B．send  C．buy     D．make

53．A．for      B．from  C．like     D．with

54．A．sad     B．happy         C．worried      D．sorry

55．A．It        B．She     C．Such   D．I