44．A．had a talk            B．went away           C．came back           D．got home

43．A．get                     B．send                    C．buy                     D．make

42．A．at                       B．for                      C．before                 D．after

41．A．lost                     B．killed                  C．beaten                 D．hurt

40．A．them                   B．her                     C．themselves           D．herself

39．A．possible              B．important            C．easy                    D．difficult

38．A．nothing               B．everything           C．anything                D．something

37．A．but                     B．so                       C．for                      D．since

36．A．new                    B．all right               C．small                  D．large

35．－Where are the students?

－They ________ for their lunch.

       A．leave                  B．are leaving          C．left                     D．have left

（二）完形填空（共12分，每小题1分）通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择能填入空白处的最佳选项。

    Anna lived on the side of a river. One summer, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses

were washed away. Anna’s house was high enough to escape the flood. Her house was still  36  

when the water was gone.

Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children,   37   Anna took in one of the families that had lost   38   in the flood. She shared(分享) her home with them until it was   39   for them to rebuild their house.

Anna’s friends were puzzled when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give   40   so much work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to feed.

“Well,” Anna said to her friends. “At the end of the First World War(战争), a woman in a town found herself very poor, because her husband was   41   in the war and she had a lot of children, as I have now.”

“The day   42   Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much of Christmas this year, so I’m going to   43   only one present for all of us, now I’ll go and get it. ’ She   44   with a girl who was even poorer than they were, and who had no   45  .

‘Here’s our present,’ she said to her children.”

    “The children were excited and   46   to get such a present. They   47   the little girl as their sister. I was that Christmas present.”