It was a lazy morning during the Christmas week. We were enjoying breakfast when the doorbell rang. It was a little girl, standing at the doorway with a piece of paper and a face that carried an expression of want, rather a common     1   during Christmas.
She murmured that the paper was her booklist and that she was going around     2   money to buy her schoolbooks. My children went inside and brought some     3    for her. This kind of incident happens very often in my hometown,     4    during Christmas.
From where I was seated, I could see her clearly. She looked about ten years old and she wore a dress too big for her. She spoke in a     5    voice and looked at me straight in the eye. Something made me get up and     6    her.
In answer to my questions, she said that her mother made hoppers and she     7    them before going to school. But the hopper money was not adequate to     8    the list; therefore, she was going from house to house asking for help.
Her voice told me the story; her eyes told me that it was     9    . I said I'd buy her what was on the list.
We drove to a nearby bookstore. She sat    10   , with a strange look on her face. When the clerk was taking all the things on the list, the little girl kept staring as if confused. Perhaps she had never    11   so many new things before. They were merely exercise books, pencils, pens and such things. She whispered her    12   to us. Strange, I hadn't been aware that giving such   13        things to one in need, could bring me such a lot of happiness.
As we drove back, I could see the little girl in the mirror. All the gifts I had given in my life never   14   up a face so much. She was grasping the parcel, smiling to herself. The total event made us all very    15   . Our Christmas became more meaningful.

It was a lazy morning during the Christmas week. We were enjoying breakfast when the doorbell rang. It was a little girl, standing at the doorway with a piece of paper and a face that carried an expression of want, rather a common     1   during Christmas.

She murmured that the paper was her booklist and that she was going around     2   money to buy her schoolbooks. My children went inside and brought some     3    for her. This kind of incident happens very often in my hometown,     4    during Christmas.

From where I was seated, I could see her clearly. She looked about ten years old and she wore a dress too big for her. She spoke in a     5    voice and looked at me straight in the eye. Something made me get up and     6    her.

In answer to my questions, she said that her mother made hoppers and she     7    them before going to school. But the hopper money was not adequate to     8    the list; therefore, she was going from house to house asking for help.

Her voice told me the story; her eyes told me that it was     9    . I said I'd buy her what was on the list.

We drove to a nearby bookstore. She sat    10   , with a strange look on her face. When the clerk was taking all the things on the list, the little girl kept staring as if confused. Perhaps she had never    11   so many new things before. They were merely exercise books, pencils, pens and such things. She whispered her    12   to us. Strange, I hadn't been aware that giving such   13        things to one in need, could bring me such a lot of happiness.

As we drove back, I could see the little girl in the mirror. All the gifts I had given in my life never   14   up a face so much. She was grasping the parcel, smiling to herself. The total event made us all very    15   . Our Christmas became more meaningful.

1.                A．problem        B．sight           C．moment  D．experience

2.                A．borrowing      B．receiving        C．begging   D．lending

3.                A．clothes         B．books          C．food     D．coins

4.                A．a(chǎn)bsolutely       B．casually         C．especially D．hardly

5.                A．strange         B．polite          C．serious   D．loud

6.                A．care for        B．speak to        C．smile at   D．hold to

7.                A．sold           B．needed         C．collected D．used

8.                A．buy            B．make           C．cover    D．control

9.                A．painful         B．true            C．moving   D．interesting

10.               A．happily         B．eagerly         C．a(chǎn)nxiously  D．silently

11.               A．possessed      B．bought         C．seen D．a(chǎn)ccepted

12.               A．surpr ise        B．satisfaction      C．thanks D．pleasure

13.               A．simple         B．wonderful      C．expensive D．useful

14.               A．lit             B．made          C．put   D．shut

15.               A．confused       B．delighted       C．a(chǎn)mazed   D．relieved

　　When I was twenty seven years old, I was a clerk in San Francisco, and an expert at stock（股票）. I was content with the prospect（前景）.

　　One day I ventured in a small boat too far, and was carried out to sea．Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig（雙桅船）which was bound for London. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket.

　　About ten o'clock on the following morning, thirsty and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed （牽著）by a nurse-maid, threw a luscious（甘甜的）big pear--minus one bite--into the gutter（排水溝）. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved（懇求）it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent（無關(guān)緊要的）, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get the pear. I was just getting desperate（不顧一切的）enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying,

　　“Step in here, please.”

　　I was admitted by a well-dressed flunkey（仆役）, and shown into a sumptuous（華麗的）room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They sent away the servant. and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.

(1)When the author was twenty-seven-years old, he worked as a clerk ________ .

[　　]

(2）He got to London because ________ .

[　　]

A．he wanted to be an expert at stock

B．he wanted to find a couple of elderly gentlemen

C．his small boat turned over and he was saved by a ship which would sail for London

D．he liked adventure and wanted to go to London to travel

（3）The underlined word“treasure”in the third paragraph means ________ .

[　　]

A．a(chǎn) store of gold, silver jewels

B．a(chǎn) very valuable and important object

C．a(chǎn) very useful and important thing

D．a(chǎn) big pear--minus one bite

（4）The last sentence“I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that ________ food…”means ________ .

[　　]

A．I have no ability to say things that are clever and amusing facing that food

B．I was so hungry that I would almost lose my mind facing that food

C．I didn't control my feeling facing that food

D．I was completely concentrated on the food and really wanted to eat it

　　When I was twenty seven years old, I was a clerk in San Francisco, and an expert at stock（股票）. I was content with the prospect（前景）.

　　One day I ventured in a small boat too far, and was carried out to sea．Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig（雙桅船）which was bound for London. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket.

　　About ten o'clock on the following morning, thirsty and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed （牽著）by a nurse-maid, threw a luscious（甘甜的）big pear--minus one bite--into the gutter（排水溝）. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved（懇求）it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent（無關(guān)緊要的）, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get the pear. I was just getting desperate（不顧一切的）enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying,

　　“Step in here, please.”

　　I was admitted by a well-dressed flunkey（仆役）, and shown into a sumptuous（華麗的）room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They sent away the servant. and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.

(1)When the author was twenty-seven-years old, he worked as a clerk ________ .

[　　]

(2）He got to London because ________ .

[　　]

A．he wanted to be an expert at stock

B．he wanted to find a couple of elderly gentlemen

C．his small boat turned over and he was saved by a ship which would sail for London

D．he liked adventure and wanted to go to London to travel

（3）The underlined word“treasure”in the third paragraph means ________ .

[　　]

A．a(chǎn) store of gold, silver jewels

B．a(chǎn) very valuable and important object

C．a(chǎn) very useful and important thing

D．a(chǎn) big pear--minus one bite

（4）The last sentence“I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that ________ food…”means ________ .

[　　]

A．I have no ability to say things that are clever and amusing facing that food

B．I was so hungry that I would almost lose my mind facing that food

C．I didn't control my feeling facing that food

D．I was completely concentrated on the food and really wanted to eat it