It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey   1   the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two children in ragged outgrown coats budding together insider the storm door.

“Any old   2  ，lady?”

I was   3  . I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals, wet with heavy snow.

 “Come in and I’ll   4   you a cup of hot cocoa.”

There was no conversation. Their wet scandals  5  marks upon the hearthstone（炉边）I   6  them cocoa and toast with jam to fight against the cold wind outside. Then I went back to the   7  and stared again on my household budget.

The silence in the front room struck thorough to me. I   8  in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands. looking at it. The boy asked  9  a flat voice, “Lady…are you rich?”

“Am I rich? Mercy, no!”

 I looked at my shabby（寒酸的）shpcovers. The girl put her  10 back in its saucer-carefully.

“Your cups match your sanders.”

Her   11  was old, with a hunger that was not of the stomach. They left then holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you”, They didn’t  12  to. They had done  13  that Plain blue pottery cups and saucers.   14  they matched.

I   15  the potatoes and stirred the gravy（肉汁）.Potatoes and brown gravy, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job-these things  16  , too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and tidied the living room. The muddy prints of small scandals were still  17  upon my hearthstone I let   18  be. I want them there  19  I ever forget again how very   20  I am.

1．A．while                    B．as                       C．when                  D．until

2．A．clothes                  B．books                  C．shoes                  D．papers

3．A．busy                     B．confused             C．impatient             D．unhappy

4．A．cook                     B．make                   C．do                      D．give

5．A．left                       B．kept                    C．held                    D．wiped

6．A．sent                      B．took                    C．served                 D．showed

7．A．study                    B．bedroom              C．living room          D．kitchen

8．A．turned                   B．gave                    C．looked                 D．checked

9．A．at                         B．in                        C．with                    D．to

10．A．food                   B．spoon                  C．toast                   D．cup

11．A．voice                   B．coat                    C．story                   D．memory

12．A．expect                 B．know                  C．need                   D．mean

13．A．less than              B．more than            C．rather than           D．other than

14．A．And                    B．So                      C．Then                   D．But

15．A．tested                  B．picked                 C．washed               D．cut

16．A．separated             B．matched              C．were the same     D．were different

17．A．strange                B．new                    C．deep                   D．wet

18．A．it                        B．them                   C．that                     D．one

19．A．in case                B．as if                    C．although              D．in order that

20．A．happy                 B．lucky                  C．rich                    D．moved