10．A。这里表示浪费时间，故选lose。

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Nasreddin was a poor man, so he tried to grow __1__ he could in his own garden, so that he would not have to buy so many in the market.

One evening he heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window. A white ox had got into the garden and __2__ his vegetables. Nasreddin at once took his stick, ran out and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined most of his precious vegetables.

__3__, while he __4__ in the street near his house, he saw a cart with two white oxen which looked very much like the one that __5__ his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, __6__ he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he beat both of them equally hard.

The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a __7__ coffee-house. When he saw __8__ Nasreddin was doing __9__ his animals, he ran out and shouted, “What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that?”

“You keep out this!” Nasreddin shouted back, “This is a matter between me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well __10__ I am beating him!”

9．B。leave意为“留下，剩下”。根据文意，我们不能把今天的事留到明天做，故选 leave。

8．D。根据文意，浪费时间就是浪费自己的生命，故选life。

7．C。该句列举了一些人浪费时间的例子，四个选项中只有playing能和smoking, drinking 相提并论，故选playing。

6．B。根据文意可知，我们应珍惜时间，做一些有用的事情，故选something。

5．B。时间的流逝悄无声息，故应选 time。

4．D。上文解释了我们为什么不能浪费时间，承接上文应用why。

3．A。时间流逝就不会再回来，根据文意应选return。

2．C。这里表示时间流逝，故选gone。

1．D。该句中多音节形容词important的比较级应是 more important ，用even来修饰比较级，故选 even more important。