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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 由後面所說的寄過來可知父親只有先買然後才能寄，其他選項都不對，所以選B。

32.A 後文寫道“All of the boxes that my father had sent us arrived except for…”，由此可知是用小箱子寄過來，故選A。

33.D 根據第一段第四句可知，我們在聖誕節前兩天還沒有收到聖誕樹的某部分，而且聖誕樹是聖誕節不可缺少的東西，當然很驚慌。

34.B 倒數第二段第三句“There stood a stranger holding a long  52  carton, our tree trunk.”照應此處，所以應該是還未收到盛樹幹的箱子。

35.C spot指“發現很難發現的東西或突然看見某物”，符合語境，因爲那個箱子在櫃檯下面本來就很難發現。

36.C 這句話中that引導的賓語從句是clerk看到a box後所意識到的，根據上下句的邏輯關係可知選C。

37.A 根據句意判斷這一空所填的詞與mail有關，由上文可知聖誕樹是郵寄的，所以這裏指的是“聖誕節期間不送包裹”。

38.D package指的是“（裝樹幹的）包裹”符合文章的意思。另外，該句最後一個單詞也是package，由此提示可知選D。

39.A 根據後面的“he ended up sharing a table”可判斷，這個酒吧當時人很多，擁擠不堪（crowded）。酒吧小或者喧鬧了都可能不會造成sharing a table，因此B、C不合適。Normal指“正常的”，不符合語境。

40.D 郵遞員與這兩個同來酒吧的客人素相識，只能說他們是共用一張餐桌的夥伴（companions）。

41.A 在西方的聖誕節，聖誕老人會送給人們禮物，郵遞員這一傳統，把爲客戶運送郵件和聖誕老人送禮物聯繫起來，鼓勵他們真正地做一回聖誕老人，所以只有really合理。

42.B 根據“and the two walked to the mail room to 48  the package”可知那個人同意了運送樹幹，故選B。

43.A 根據前面的句子可知，此人和郵遞員一起去郵局的郵件寄存間去取包裹，故用fetch。

44.C try to do sth.表示“盡力做某事”，這句話的意思是“在Mannheim的家裏，我們忙着盡力想辦法把樹攢一起。”第一段的panic可與此處照應，因爲驚慌，所以現在盡力想辦法。

45.D come across/ come upon+sb. /sth.“偶然遇到”；come back to“回到（主題、想法）上來”；come up with“想出（主意、辦法），提出（方案等）”。此空後面有solution，只有come up with與其搭配合適。

46.B when在這裏用作連詞，意思是“正在這（那）時”，when前面的句子的時態一般爲進行時態或完成時態。其餘三項無此用法。

47.A 由上文可知，這個箱子正是作者等待的盛樹幹的硬紙盒，樹幹很長，所以可推知箱子也很長很苗條。Slim指“苗條的，修長的”。Heavy指“重的”，假樹幹不會很重，可以排除。

48.A 邀請與聖誕前夜陌生人要回家之間是轉折關係，表示雖然邀請了，但是他不能答應請求。

49.C 當時已經是聖誕節期間，人人都在準備過節，所以陌生人把包裹交給我們後匆匆趕回了家。In a hurry“匆匆忙忙地”；in the way“當道，礙事”；in surprise“吃驚地”；in time“及時”。

50.A 根據句意，小男孩的眼睛亮起來了，是因爲他看到了某物，at the sight of sth.表示“看到某物”，故選A。

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