I hurried into the store to get Christmas gifts. Suddenly, I saw a little boy holding a lovely doll. He kept touching her hair. I watched him turn to a woman and say, “Are you sure I don’t have enough money?” She said yes and told the boy not to go anywhere before she came back. Then she left.
The boy continued to hold the doll. I asked the boy who the doll was for. He said, “It’s the doll that my sister wanted so badly for Christmas. She just knew that Santa would bring it.” I told him that Santa was going to bring it. He said, “No, Santa can’t go where my sister is. I have to give the doll to my mom to take it to her.”
I asked him where his sister was. He looked at me sadly and said, “She’s gone to heaven. My daddy said that Mom was going to be there with her.” My heart nearly stopped beating. Then the boy said, “I told my daddy to tell her not to go there until I got back.” He took out some pictures of him and said, “I want my mom to take these with her so she’ll never forget me. I love my mom so much that I wish she didn’t have to leave me, but Daddy said that she needed to be with my sister.”
The boy lowered his head. While he was not looking, I reached into my purse and asked him, “Shall we count that money again?” He grew excited and said, “Yes, I just know it has to be enough.” So I put my money with his and we began to count it. He said, “Thank you for giving me enough money.” He continued, “I just asked God to give me enough money to buy this doll, and he heard my prayer.”
Soon the woman came back and I left. I remembered a story I had read in the newspaper several days earlier about a drunk driver who hit a car. A little girl was killed and her mother was in serious condition. Two days later, I read the news that the mother had died.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。
1.Who did the boy buy the gift for?
A. His mother. B. His father.
C. His sister. D. The writer.
2. What happened to the boy?
A. His sister died in a car accident.
B. His father left him with his mother.
C. His father was killed by a drunk driver.
D. His mother left him with his sister.
3. What do you think of the writer?
A. Rich. B. Kind. C. Brave. D. Careful.
4.What does the underlined word mean in Chinese?
A. 祈祷 B. 哭喊 C. 谩骂 D. 心声
5.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Christmas shopping B. A special gift
C. A poor boy D. Great love
完形填空（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
先通读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。
I watched quietly as John, my little brother, was caught in the act. He sat in the corner of the living room, a pen in one hand and my father’s brand-new book in the other.
As my father walked into the room, my brother cowered (畏缩) slowly. He _______ that he had done something wrong. From a distance I could see that he had ________ my father’s new book and scribbled(乱画) in it. Now, looking at my father_________, he and I both waited for punishment.
My father picked up his prized book, looked at it carefully, and then sat down, ________saying a word. Books are precious to him. He was a clergyman(牧师) and for him books were knowledge. What he did next was________. Instead of punishing my brother, he sat down, took the pen from my brother’s hand, and then ________in the book himself, alongside the scribbles John had made: John’s work, 1959, age 2.
“Wow,” I thought. “This is punishment?”
The years and the books came and went. Our family experienced __________ all families go through and perhaps a little bit more: happiness and __________, laughter and tears. We always knew our parents loved us and that one of the proofs （证据）of their love was the ________. From time to time we would open it, look at the scribbles, read my father’s expression of ________, and feel proud.
1.A. pretended B. imagined C. realized D. suggested
2.A. dropped B. kept C. carried D. opened
3.A. fearfully B. carefully C. excitedly D. surprisingly
4.A. by B. without C. beyond D. before
5.A. unbelievable B. acceptable C. frightening D. exciting
6.A. searched B. read C. wrote D. put
7.A. how B. what C. that D. when
8.A. fun B. fears C. sadness D. difficulty
9.A. book B. pen C. room D. photo
10.A. wish B. warning C. success D. love
--- What did Lily say in her letter?
--- She asked _________________.
A. what did we often do in our spare time
B. when we will go to the seaside
C. that we could go hiking this weekend
D. how we would spend our holidays
--- I’m going to Hainan for vacation this Spring Festival.
--- Great! ___________ happy thing it is to stay in Hainan in such cold weather!
A. What B. How C. What a D. How a
---Who shall I invite to the party?
--- I don't mind. __________ you like.
A. Somebody B. Anybody
C. Everybody D. Nobody
--- Why didn’t you answer my phone last night?
--- I __________ the bath.
A. took B. was taking
C. am taking D. had taken
