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As Christmas is coming, there are presents to be bought, cards to be sent, and rooms to be cleaned. Parents are  41  with difficult jobs of hiding presents from curious young children. If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real  42  . On Christmas Eve, young children find the excitement almost unbearable. They are torn between the wish to go to bed early so that Father Christmas will bring their presents quickly and the wish to  43  up late so that they will not  44  the fun. The wish for gifts usually proves stronger. But though children go to bed early, they often lie Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about. 【小题1】 Politkovskaya’s father died of ______.A．tirednessB．a diseaseC．an attackD．an accident【小题2】From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______.A．didn’t love her husbandB．didn’t attend her husband’s funeralC．was having an operation the day her husband was buriedD．was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral【小题3】The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______.A．came outB．went intoC．looked intoD．left for【小题4】How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?A．Three.B．FourC．FiveD．Six【小题5】Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?A．curiousB．easy-goingC．carelessD．responsible