题目内容：

  Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big 26 , and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house was 27 enough to escape the flood, so when the water had 28 and the other houses were 29 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, 30 Anna took in one of the families that had lost 31 in the flood and she32 her home with them until it was 33 for them to rebuild their house.

　　Anna’s friends were 34 when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give 35 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to36 .

   “Well,” Anna 37 her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very 38 , because her husband had been killed in the 39 and she had a lot of children, 40 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 41 only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a 42 who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our 43 ,’ she said to her children.

　　 The children were 44 and happy to get such a present. They 45 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. And I was that Christmas present.”

1.A. earthquake        B. accident       C. flood      D. fire

2.A. below         B. high       C. big         D. small

3.A. reduced           B. come           C. appeared      D. disappeared

4.A. rising        B. flowing       C. falling         D. standing

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

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

7.A. gave           B. found         C. shared          D. built

8.A. possible          B. necessary       C. important       D. obvious

9.A. worried          B. disappointed      C. puzzled           D. satisfied

10.A. them           B. herself        C. him            D. us

11.A. support           B. supply        C. grow            D. educate

12.A. explained to     B. asked for        C. talked with       D. turned up

13.A. sad             B. poor        C. rich          D. happy

14.A. war            B. storm        C. rain          D. flood

15.A. because           B. as            C. which           D. that

16.A. get             B. send        C. buy          D. make

17.A. boy            B. girl         C. student          D. teacher

18.A. child            B. daughter      C. sister            D. present

19.A. angry            B. excited       C. lovely        D. sorry

20.A. disliked           B. gained        C. welcomed     D. led