题目内容：

通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

Mrs. Wettiner was old and blind. But she tried to do everything for herself. She even used to go for walks alone from her home once a day for exercise and fresh air, and found her way by ________ things with her white stick. She learnt where everything was, so she never lost her way.     But then one day some men came and cut down some trees at the side of the road which she followed. When she reached that place that evening, she didn’t feel the trees with her stick, so she was in ________.

She stopped for a minute and ________, but she didn’t hear any other people, so she went ahead for a kilometer or two, and then she heard water under her.

“Water?” she said aloud, and stopped. “Am I ________? I suppose so. I must be on a bridge, and there must be a river under me. I’ve been told that there’s a river in this part of the country. But I don’t know its exact position(位置). How am I going back to my home from here?”

All at once she heard a young man’s friendly________ near her. It said, “Excuse me, can I help you?”

“How kind of you!” Mrs. Wettiner answered ________. “Yes, please. I’m lost. Some of the trees which I follow when I go for my evening walk have been removed today, and if I hadn’t been lucky enough to come across you, I don’t know what I’d have done. Can you please help me to get home?”

“Certainly,” the man answered. “Where do you live?”

Mrs. Wettiner told him, and they began walking. The man took Mrs. Wettiner to her home, and she ________ him in and gave him some coffee and a piece of cake. She told the man how_________ she was that she had met him.

“Don’t thank me,” the young man said. “I want to thank you. I was trying to make up my mind into the river. But I’m not going to do it now.”

1.A. reading    B. touching    C. making    D. helping

2.A. difficulty    B. happiness    C. control    D. action

3.A. rested    B. watched    C. shouted    D. listened

4.A. tired    B. busy    C. lost    D. crazy

5.A. voice    B. noise    C. speech    D. talk

6.A. proudly    B. patiently    C. excitedly    D. doubtfully

7.A. ordered    B. joined    C. helped    D. invited

8.A. careful    B. thankful    C. forgetful    D. harmful