A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she 36  play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. 37  she loved her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house and 38 all day about how wonderful and exciting  39 must feel to live there.

       At the age when she gained some 40 skill and sensibility(识别力), she 41 her mother for a bike ride ___42 the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, 43 her keeping close to the house and not 44 too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew 45 where she was heading! 46 the hill and across the valley, she rode to the  47 of the golden house.

        48  she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path _49 _ to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she 50 that all the windows were 51 and rather dirty.

       So 52 and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She 53 , and all of a sudden she saw an amazing ___54 . There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she _55 __ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her house.

36. A. might                        B. should                             C. would                      D. must

37. A. Unless                       B. Although                         C. Since                       D. But

38. A. dreamed                    B. worried                           C. asked                       D. shouted

39. A. this                           B. that                                C. it                             D. which

40. A. different                    B. scientific                         C. musical                    D. basic

41. A. begged                      B. blamed                            C. invited                            D. paid   

42. A. inside                        B. outside                            C. through                    D. along

43. A. insisting on                B. relying on                       C. arguing about           D. wondering about

44. A. traveling                    B. running                           C. riding                      D. walking

45. A. madly                        B. rapidly                                   C. exactly                     D. possibly

46. A. Over                         B. Down                             C. Around                    D. Beside

47. A. windows                    B. steps                               C. center                      D. gate

48. A. Until                         B. As                                  C. While                      D. Because

49. A. getting                       B. introducing                      C. leading                    D. moving

50. A. felt                                   B. learned                            C. concluded                 D. found

51. A. transported                 B. bright                             C. plain                        D. wide

52. A. anxious                      B. angry                              C. serious                     D. sad

53. A. turned down               B. cheered up                       C. settled down             D. dropped in

54. A. hill                            B. valley                             C. background                     D. sight

55. A. imagined                   B. decided                           C. realized                    D. guessed