阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When Dunstan Cass left the cottage, Silas Marner was only a hundred meters away. He was walking home from the village, where he had 1 to buy what he needed 2 his next day’s work. His legs were tired, but he felt almost happy. He was looking forward to 3 , when he would bring out his gold.Tonight he had an extra reason to hurry home. He was going to eat hot meat, which was 39 for him. And it would 40 him nothing, because someone had given him a piece of meat as a present. He left it 41 over the fire. The door key was needed to hold it safe in place, but Cass was not at all 42 about leaving his gold in the cottage with the door 43 . He could not imagine that a thief would 44 his way through the mist, rain and darkness to the little cottage by the quarry ( 采石场 ). When he reached his cottage and opened the door, he did not notice 45 anything was different. He 46 is wet coat, and pushed the meat 47 he fire. 48 he was warm again, he began to think about his gold . It seemed a long time to wait until after super, when he usually brought out coins to look at. 49 he decided to bring out his gold immediately, while the meat was still cooking. But when he 50 he floorboards near the loom, and saw the 51 hole, he did not understand 52 . His heart beat violently as his trembling hands felt all round the hole. There was 53 !he put his hands to his head and tried to think . Had he put his gold in a different place, and forgotten about it? He 54 every corner of this small cottage, until he could not pretend to himself any more. He had to accept the truth----his gold had been 55 !