Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的单词）：

　　Water never stops moving. Snow and rain 1 to the earth from the sky. Water runs down 2 rivers and lakes, and sometimes it 3 waterfalls. Finally, the water 4 into the sea. How does water get up into the 5 ? It evaporates（蒸发）from the ground. The sun 6 water into steam, and it goes up to make 7 . There, the cycle（循环）begins again. The cycle tells us that 8 may evaporate and change into clouds or snow, but it's still water. The water you drink could be the same water that dinosaurs （恐龙）drank! 9 too much of water today has pollutants（污染物）in it. Our water may never go away, but a lot of it is becoming too dirty for us to 10 !

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的单词）：

(1)_______ (2)_______ (3)_______ (4)________ (5)_______

(6)_______ (7)_______ (8)_______ (9)________ (10)_______

　　Of all the food and drink, water is the m________ important to our bodies. People c________ live without food for a w________ or more, but two or t________ days without water will m________ them dead.

　　Many people don't understand how m________ water they n________, and they don't drink e________ water. Most people drink water only when they a________ thirty. That is not g________ for their health.

　　Nowadays people especially young  1  don't like to work in the same place for a long time. They like to do   2  jobs. They like to let others know they have some other skills. They don't want to do the same job and work in the same place like their  3  or grandparents. They think it boring. So time ___4__ everything. Perhaps you will be a VIP in the  5 So study hard!

　　Our village carpenter, Alf Winn, came one day and made a kitchen cupboard for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the useless space at the corner by the door. When I got home that evening, Alf was drinking a cup of tea and making out his bill for the job.

　　My wife said to me, quietly, “That's his ninth cup of tea today.” But she said, loudly, “It's a beautiful cupboard, dear, isn't it?”

　　“I'll decide about that when I see the bill.” I said.

　　Alf laughed and gave me his account for the work. I read:

　　One kitchen cupboard 10 Nov. 1975

　　Cost of materials (wood) ￡17.00

　　Paint and fittings ￡ 1.50

　　Work, 8 hours (￡1 an hour) ￡8.00

　　　　　　　　　　   Total ￡26.50

　　I took out my cheque book and my pen. I looked at the bill.

　　Alf said, “It's been a lovely day, hasn't it? Quite sunny.”

　　“Yes,” I said, “I'm glad it's only the 10th of November.”

　　“Me, too,” said Alf. “You wait-it'll be a lot colder by the end of the month.”

　　“Yes, colder and dearer! Kitchen cupboards will be ￡20 dearer on November 30th, won't they, Alf?”

　　Alf looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? 1 gave his account back to him.

　　“If it isn't too much trouble, Alf,” I said, “Please add it up again. You can forget the date…”

　　I wrote him a cheque for ￡26.50. He was happy to accept it.

(5) I paid Alf ￡26.50, which was ________ too high.

　　Look a________ your watch. It has t________ hands, a l________ hand a short o________. Some watches have three h________, an hour hand, a m ________ hand and a second hand. A watch is very h ________. It tells us time. It t________ us when to get u________ and when to go t________ school.

　　David owns a big shop. It s________ a lot different things. His home is in a town about fifteen kilometers a________. Every morning he d________ his car to work. U________ he gets to his office at about eight. But sometimes the road is very b________, he may reach his shop after half past eight.