Question

选词填空。从下面方框中选择适当的选项填入短文中，使短文通顺、完整。选项中有两项是多余的。

A. present     B. explained     C. poor     D. but          E. nothing     F. with     G. everything   H. why          I. children         J. build      K. excited    I. what        Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house.  One winter, there was a big flood, and quite a few houses were washed away,   1   Elizabeth's house was high enough to escape it. Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost   2  .She shared her home until the family could   3   another house.        Elizabeth's friends could not understand   4   she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support. "Well," Elizabeth   5   to her friends, "at the end of the World War I, there was a   6   woman in a town in Germany.  Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of    7   , just like me now. "        "The day before Christmas," this woman said to her children, "we won't be able to have much for Christmas.  I'm going to get just one   8   for us all.  Now I'll go and get it." She came back   9   a little girl who had no parents. "Here's our present," she said to her own children.        "The children were very   10   to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly,  and she grew up as their sister.  I was that Christmas present. "

Answer 1

1-5 D G J H B    6-10 C I A F K