On the evening of last Sunday while I was reviewing my lessons in my room, it suddenly began to rain.   1   as usual, I stopped to listen to the rhythm（韵律）of the rain. For many years, whenever it rains, I couldn’t   2  listening to it and thinking of the garden in which I spent my childhood（童年） in my hometown.
When I was a little girl, my family lived in a big house with a big garden in the countryside. The garden was full of flowers and   3 , with some bamboo in front of the wall. Whenever it rained, I    4   to sit in the front of the house, listening to the rhythm of the rain and watching the    5   raindrops（雨点）.
When small drops of rain fall from the heaven in a row（持续不断地）, they    6  a curtain made up of pearls（珍珠）; when the raindrops   7  the ground, a lot of small sprays（水花）will splash（溅出）and then disappear slowly.
I have been   8  interested in watching such a scene. Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I feel calm and peaceful in my heart. This feeling of peace makes me think a lot about life. We are the    9  of the earth, and one day we will embrace（拥抱）our earth and stay with her forever. Life is short and we should treasure it.
Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I learn to understand the    10   of life.

I used to watch a little girl playing basketball every day. One day I asked her why she practiced so   1  . She said, “I like basketball and I want to be the    2  player. My dad told me, ‘If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.’”

She never changed her mind. She practiced basketball every day.    3   one day before she graduated from high school, I saw her sitting on the grass    4 . I asked her what was wrong. She told me that her coach said she was   5   short to be a good basketball player. She was heartbroken. Then her father said to her, “If you    6   want to be a good basketball player, nothing but you    7   can stop your dream.” He told her    8  , “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

The next year, she and her team went to a big match. She was    9   by a coach of a famous team and was given a chance to the    10   basketball team.

Scientists are trying to make some small cars that may some day take the place of today’s big cars. If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be 1_ pollution in the air. There will _2 be more space or parking cars in cities, and the _3_ will be less crowded. Three such cars can fit in__4__ that it is now needed for one car of the usual size.

The little cars will __5___ much less to own and to drive. Driving will be __6___, too, as these little cars can go only 65 kilometers per hour. The little cars of __7___ will be fine or getting out of the city, but they will not be useful for__8__ trips. Little cars which are powered by gasoline( 汽油 ) will go 450 kilometers __9___ needing to stop for more gasoline .

If big cars still are used together with the small ones, _10__ sets of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be used for the big, fast cars, and some roads will be needed for the slower, small ones.

1.                A．much          B．less            C．small D．more

2.                A．have           B．also            C．too  D．less

3.                A．spaces         B．streets         C．shops    D．building

4.                A．spaces         B．the rooms       C．the group D．the space

5.                A．spend          B．take           C．cost D．pay

6.                A．faster          B．safer           C．quick D．dangerous

7.                A．today          B．todays          C．the past  D．the future

8.                A．short          B．long           C．any  D．the shortest

9.                A．after           B．then           C．before   D．while

10.               A．few           B．two            C．many D．little