A girl grumbled(发牢骚)to her father about her hard life. She wanted to   1  because she didn’t know what she had to do. She felt   2  for fighting and fighting. One   3  had been solved but another came.

Her father, a cook,  took her into the kitchen. He   4  water into three pans. After boiling, in the first pan   5  some carrots, the second some eggs and the last was put with coffee. He waited without any   6 from his mouth.

The girl closed her mouth and waited,   7   by what her father did. After about twenty minutes, her father   8  the stove and took out the carrots and the eggs. After that the coffee was poured into the cup.

Turning back to her daughter, he asked, “what do you   9  ?”

“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she answered.

Her father suggested her   10  the carrots. She did and felt the carrots were   11 . Then he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After   12  them, she got the eggs, cooked and hard.   13 , he asked her to smell the coffee. She asked   14  , “What’s the meaning, father?” He explained that   15  had felt the same unfortunate, the boiling water but   16  action. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after in the   17 water. The fragile(易碎的)eggs became hard after cooked. Coffee cores(核心)were very unique,   18  they could change water.

    “  19  are you? ”asked her father, “When the calamity（苦难）knocks your door, how is

your  20  ? Are you carrots, eggs, or coffee?”

1.       A．catch up       B．wear out       C．give up        D．run out

2.       A．tired          B．thrilled       C．confident      D．promising

3.       A．matter         B．business       C．question       D．problem

4.       A．made           B．poured         C．changed        D．irrigated

5.       A．was added      B．were put       C．remained       D．increased

6.       A．breath         B．praises        C．words          D．complaints

7.       A．judged         B．frightened     C．disappointed   D．confused

8.       A．turned off     B．turned up      C．turned down    D．turned away

9.       A．mean           B．see            C．suggest        D．explain

10.    A．touching       B．eating         C．observing      D．keeping

11.    A．bad            B．hard           C．soft           D．gentle

12.    A．hitting        B．peeling        C．beating        D．destroying

13.    A．Besides        B．Thus           C．Still          D．Lastly

14.    A．impatiently    B．shyly          C．regretfully    D．bravely

15.    A．nothing        B．anything       C．each thing     D．something

16.    A．different      B．certain        C．more           D．unequal

17.    A．cold           B．boiled         C．boiling        D．changeable

18.    A．or             B．if             C．though         D．but

19.     A．How            B．Who            C．When           D．Where

20.     A．influence      B．replacement    C．refusal        D．reaction

It is easy to compress gas; it is just a ______ of reducing the space between molecules.

A. question　　　　　　　　   B.problem　　　　　　　　　　 C.business　　　　　　　　    D.matter

A. question　　　　　　　　   B.problem　　　　　　　　　　 C.business　　　　　　　　    D.matter