阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 Two little children were sitting by the fire one cold winter's night. Suddenly, they heard a knock at the door. “Who can it be?” they wondered. One ran{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (curious) to open it. There, outside in the cold and the darkness, stood a child {#blank#}2{#/blank#} no shoes on his feet and dressed in old thin garments. He was trembling with cold, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} he asked to come in and warm himself.
“Yes, come,” cried both the children. They drew the little stranger to their warm seat, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (share) their supper with him, and gave him their bed, and they slept on a hard bench.
On the night, they{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (awake) by sweet music,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} was played by a band of children in shining garments. Suddenly the stranger child stood in front of {#blank#}7{#/blank#}: no longer cold and ragged, but dressed in silvery light. He said, “I am the Christ Child, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (wander) through the world to bring peace and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(happy) to good children as you. As you have helped me so much, this tree will give rich fruit to you every year.”
When he was saying that, he broke {#blank#}10{#/blank#} branch from the tree that grew near the door, planted it in the ground and disappeared. But the branch grew into a great tree, and every year it bore wonderful golden fruit for the kind children.
