It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25.

I was the nurse on duty that day. I didn't think there would be any patients. Just then five bodies   1    at my desk, a pale woman and four small children.

“Are you all sick?” I asked.

“Yes,” she said   2   , lowering her head.

But when they described their problems, things got a little strange. Two of the children had headaches, but they didn’t show any    3  of headaches at all. Two children had earaches, but only one could tell me which ear was affected. The mother  4  of a cough but seemed to work to produce it.

I didn't say anything,  5 I explained that they might wait for a little while before a doctor saw her. She answered, “Take your time; it's warm here.”

I checked the chart after another nurse had finished registering(登記) the family. No 6  —they were homeless. The waiting room was warm.

I looked at the family by the Christmas tree. The littlest one was pointing at the television and saying something to her mother. The oldest one was looking at lights on the Christmas tree.

I went back to the nurses' station and mentioned we had a homeless family in the waiting room. The nurses who felt bored with  7  Christmas, turned to compassion((憐憫) for the family just trying to get warm on Christmas. The team went into action. We began to prepare a party for our Christmas  8 . We needed presents. We put together oranges and apples in a basket. We collected from different departments candies, crayons and other things available that could be presents.

   9 , as the family walked to the door to leave, the four-year-old child came running back, gave me a hug and    10 , “Thanks for being our angels today.”

1.                A．set up          B．put up          C．cheered up    D．showed up

2.                A．excitedly       B．loudly          C．weakly   D．strongly

3.                A．systems        B．signs           C．symbols  D．secrets

4.                A．explained       B．expressed       C．complained    D．compared

5.                A．a(chǎn)nd            B．but            C．or   D．so

6.                A．a(chǎn)ddress        B．a(chǎn)ge            C．name D．money

7.                A．a(chǎn)mazing        B．working         C．interesting D．surprising

8.                A．nurses         B．doctors         C．guests    D．patients

9.                A．Soon           B．Suddenly        C．Later D．However

10.               A．screamed       B．jumped         C．whispered D．replied

Two old men lived in a room on the third floor of an old people’s home.   1   of the men were badly ill, and they spent 24 hours a   2   in bed in the room.

One of the old men had his bed by the window, and every day, he   3  hours telling his friend what he could see through the window. He told him about the traffic going by, the children playing in the park and the birds flying around．The old man far from the window got a lot of  4  from hearing about the world outside, but after a time, he began to get rather unhappy.   5  nice it would be, he thought, if he had the bed by the window and could see   6   himself.

    One night, the man by the window called his friend, “Quick! Pull the alarm by your bed—I don’t think I can go through the night!”   7   his friend, expecting an empty bed by the window, did nothing—he just closed his  8   and went back to sleep.

The next morning, the nurse found the man dead in his bed by the window.

    The old man was very   9  as they moved him into the empty bed by the window. He sat up, pulled back the curtain（窗簾）, looked out—but   10  , he saw only a wall.

（　 ）1. A．One                      B．Both                       C．All                          D．Neither

（　 ）2. A．day                       B．week                      C．month                    D．year

（　 ）3. A．paid                      B．took                       C．spent                      D．cost

（　 ）4. A．sadness                 B．knowledge              C．news                      D．pleasure

（　 ）5. A．What                    B．What a                    C．How                       D．How a

（　 ）6. A．everything             B．a(chǎn)nything                  C．nothing                   D．somebody

（　 ）7. A．Because                B．So                          C．But                         D．Though

（　 ）8. A．hands                   B．a(chǎn)rms                       C．eyes                       D．ears

（　 ）9. A．sad                       B．a(chǎn)ngry                      C．disappointed            D．excited

（　 ）10. A．to his surprise      B．by accident             C．to be honest            D．a(chǎn)t last