I. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 1～15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’ll never forget the Christmas in 1946. My dad had died five years before and left Mom several school kids to 1 . A month before Christmas our church said they were 2 a special offering (捐赠) to help a poor family. We quickly decided to help without 3 .
That month was one of the best of our lives. We’ll remember it forever. We took any job that we could 4 and saved each penny. We 5 the money every day to see how much we had got. We talked about how 6 the poor family would be when they had the money. The day before Christmas we 7 all our coins for three $20 bills and one $10 bill. We felt we were very rich.
Then came the exciting Christmas morning. However, later that afternoon the minister (牧师) brought us a(n) 8 . Out of it fell some money --- three $20 bills, one $10 bill and seventeen $1 bills. Suddenly, we were 9 because we felt we had nothing.
