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There Really Was a Santa Claus

Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her  ___21___  was to go to the post office every day and  ___22___  the company mail. One day in December, she  ___23___  a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus   ___24___  on the corner of the street. Each day she   ___25___  her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and  ___26___ her a Merry Christmas.

At night the temperature dropped below 0℃, but the Santa Claus   ___27___  stood in the cold wind.

 ___28___  she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.

    A week later, a(n)  ___29___  Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “He’s very  ___30___  today.” She prayed for his health.

    Later that day, a colleague came into her office  ___31___. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “It’s my ex—husband,” her colleague  ___32___, “I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas,   ___33___  my ex—husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they won’t have anything this year. ” The lady ___34___  her colleague, “I’m sure everything will   ___35___  . It’s Christmas. Believe in miracles (奇迹).”

    That evening, she told her husband about her colleague’s ___36___, “I know we don’t have much money to   ___37___ , but I'd like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. We’ll just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldn’t afford to buy anything for ___38___ but we still had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled, “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”

She reached up and held him. Warmth spread ___39___  her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus—and he had ___40___ her !

21. A. family           B. job          C. life         D. religion

22. A. take out         B. go through       C. bring in    D. pick up

23. A. spotted          B. watched      C. sensed           D. followed

24. A. standing    B. waiting      C. playing      D. performing

25. A. earned           B. counted      C. saved            D. threw

26. A. send         B. wish         C. offer            D. tell

27. A. even         B. just         C. still            D. yet

28. A. Although    B. If               C. Since            D. After

29. A. honest           B. new          C. considerate    D. strong

30. A. sad          B. poor         C. cold         D. sick

31. A. in tears         B. in shock    C. in horror        D. in trouble

32. A. concluded        B. decided      C. continued        D. commented

33. A. or               B. but          C. so           D. otherwise

34. A. reminded    B. amused       C. teased           D. comforted

35. A. work out    B. come back        C. run out      D. open up

36. A. message      B. suggestion       C. situation        D. example

37. A. lend         B. help         C. lose         D. pay

38. A. ourselves        B. themselves       C. us           D. others

39. A. off              B. to               C. among            D. through

40. A. relaxed          B. doubted      C. married      D. shaped

【回答】

BDAAC BCDBD  ACBDA  CBADC

知识点：人物传记 故事阅读类

题型：完型填空