1 . Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big ___ , and a lot of houses down below Anna’ s were washed away. Anna’ house was   ___ enough to escape the flood, so when the water had ___ and the other houses were ___there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud (泥), her house was just all right．

Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children, ___Anna took in one of the families that had lost ___ in the flood and she ___her home with them until it was ___ for them to rebuild their house．

Anna’ s friends were ___　when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give ____ so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to ____．

 “Well,” Anna  ___  her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very  ____ , because her husband had been killed in the ___  and she had a lot of children, ___  I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to ___ only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.” She came back with a  ___  who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. “Here’s our ___ ”, she said to her children．

The children were ___ and happy to get such a present. They ___ the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. Such was that Christmas present.”