One cold day, a young woman walked into a small country town. She was very ill and weak, and she was going to have a baby. After a while she could not walk any more and she fell down in the road. Some people came to help her. The young woman had no money, 45 they took her to the town workhouse. In those days that was where people went if they were 46 look after themselves. Here her baby was born, and, soon after that, the poor young woman died. No one knew who she was or 47 she had come from.
The people at the workhouse called the child Tony. They sent him to a place where he lived with some other children. 48 had a mother or a father. Here, an old woman named Mrs. Taylor looked after them all.
It was not a happy life for Tony and his little friends.
【題組】46.
(A)so difficult to
(B)too poor to
(C)rich enough to
(D)very bad to