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It was almost Christmas. We wrote to my father, asking him to  31  an artificial tree for us and  32  it to us in several smaller boxes. Two days before Christmas we were in a  33 . All of the boxes that my father had sent us arrived except for the one with the tree  34 . We decided to wait one more day.

Meanwhile, in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Bremerhaven, a young mail clerk  35  a box under a counter. He  36  that someone would be without a tree for Christmas. Although he was closing up and there was no  37  on Christmas, he processed the mail and got it to Mannheim.

After putting the  38  on the proper shelf, he headed to the snack bar. The place was  39  and he ended up sharing a table. Two men were speaking and the clerk discovered that one of his  40  at the table was working in Mannheim. He said to the man, “You could  41  play Santa for someone in Mannheim tonight if you’d like to.” The man  42  to deliver it and the two walked to the mail room to  43  the package.

At home in Mannheim, we were busily  44  to devise some way to put our tree together, but couldn’t  45  a workable solution. We were ready to give up  46  the door bell rang. There stood a stranger holding a long  47  carton, our tree trunk. We invited him in,  48  it was Christmas Eve and he was  49  to get home to his own family.

The next day as we watched our little boy’s eyes light up at the  50  of our beautiful tree, I whispered a little prayer: “Bless the stranger who brightened up our Christmas with his kindness.”

 

	B. purchase	C. deliver	D. bring
	B. pass	C. carry	D. take
rise	B. hunger	C. pleasure	D. panic
	B. trunk	C. stand	D. branch
hed	B. caught	C. spotted	D. broke
cted	B. whispered	C. realized	D. confirmed
very	B. customer	C. money	D. letter
ent	B. tree	C. mail	D. package
ded	B. small	C. noisy	D. normal
nds	B. colleagues	C. relatives	D. companions
ly	B. confidently	C. kindly	D. patiently
came	B. agreed	C. astonished	D. struggled
h	B. transform	C. post	D. consult
ing	B. explaining	C. trying	D. worrying
across	B. come back to	C. come upon	D. come up with
e	B. when	C. as	D. since
	B. beautiful	C. thick	D. heavy
	B. so	C. because	D. or
surprise	B. in the way	C. in a hurry	D. in time
t	B. back	C. corner	D. scene

【回答】

31.B 由后面所说的寄过来可知父亲只有先买然后才能寄，其他选项都不对，所以选B。

32.A 后文写道“All of the boxes that my father had sent us arrived except for…”，由此可知是用小箱子寄过来，故选A。

33.D 根据第一段第四句可知，我们在圣诞节前两天还没有收到圣诞树的某部分，而且圣诞树是圣诞节不可缺少的东西，当然很惊慌。

34.B 倒数第二段第三句“There stood a stranger holding a long  52  carton, our tree trunk.”照应此处，所以应该是还未收到盛树干的箱子。

35.C spot指“发现很难发现的东西或突然看见某物”，符合语境，因为那个箱子在柜台下面本来就很难发现。

36.C 这句话中that引导的宾语从句是clerk看到a box后所意识到的，根据上下句的逻辑关系可知选C。

37.A 根据句意判断这一空所填的词与mail有关，由上文可知圣诞树是邮寄的，所以这里指的是“圣诞节期间不送包裹”。

38.D package指的是“（装树干的）包裹”符合文章的意思。另外，该句最后一个单词也是package，由此提示可知选D。

39.A 根据后面的“he ended up sharing a table”可判断，这个酒吧当时人很多，拥挤不堪（crowded）。酒吧小或者喧闹了都可能不会造成sharing a table，因此B、C不合适。Normal指“正常的”，不符合语境。

40.D 邮递员与这两个同来酒吧的客人素相识，只能说他们是共用一张餐桌的伙伴（companions）。

41.A 在西方的圣诞节，圣诞老人会送给人们礼物，邮递员这一传统，把为客户运送邮件和圣诞老人送礼物联系起来，鼓励他们真正地做一回圣诞老人，所以只有really合理。

42.B 根据“and the two walked to the mail room to 48  the package”可知那个人同意了运送树干，故选B。

43.A 根据前面的句子可知，此人和邮递员一起去邮局的邮件寄存间去取包裹，故用fetch。

44.C try to do sth.表示“尽力做某事”，这句话的意思是“在Mannheim的家里，我们忙着尽力想办法把树攒一起。”第一段的panic可与此处照应，因为惊慌，所以现在尽力想办法。

45.D come across/ come upon+sb. /sth.“偶然遇到”；come back to“回到（主题、想法）上来”；come up with“想出（主意、办法），提出（方案等）”。此空后面有solution，只有come up with与其搭配合适。

46.B when在这里用作连词，意思是“正在这（那）时”，when前面的句子的时态一般为进行时态或完成时态。其余三项无此用法。

47.A 由上文可知，这个箱子正是作者等待的盛树干的硬纸盒，树干很长，所以可推知箱子也很长很苗条。Slim指“苗条的，修长的”。Heavy指“重的”，假树干不会很重，可以排除。

48.A 邀请与圣诞前夜陌生人要回家之间是转折关系，表示虽然邀请了，但是他不能答应请求。

49.C 当时已经是圣诞节期间，人人都在准备过节，所以陌生人把包裹交给我们后匆匆赶回了家。In a hurry“匆匆忙忙地”；in the way“当道，碍事”；in surprise“吃惊地”；in time“及时”。

50.A 根据句意，小男孩的眼睛亮起来了，是因为他看到了某物，at the sight of sth.表示“看到某物”，故选A。

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