Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a f 1 houses were washed away, but Elizabeth’s house was high e 2 to escape it. Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a 3 house. Elizabeth’s friends could not understand w 4 she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support. “Well, ” Elizabeth explained( 解释 ) to her friends, “at the end of World War I, there was a p ____5___ woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now.” "The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be a 6 to have much for Christmas. I’m going to get just one p 7 for us all. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back w 8 a little girl who had no parents.‘Here’s our present, ’she said to her own children." The children were very e ____9___ to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she g 10 up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.”