In the sea there are many islands. In its warm waters there are some little ones. We call them coral(珊瑚) islands.
A coral island is very nice to look at. It looks like a ring of land with trees, grass, and flowers on it. One part of the ring is open to the water. There is a little round lake inside the island.
If you look into this lake, you will see beautiful coral. You may think they are flowers.
If you look at a piece of coral, you will see many little holes in it. In each of these holes a very small sea animal has lived. These sea animals make the coral.
They began to build under the water. Year after year, the coral grew higher and higher. At last it grew out of the water.
Then the sea brought to it small trees and something else. After some years, these things changed into earth. Sometimes the wind brought seeds to this earth. Sometimes birds flew over it and brought seeds to the island. The little seeds grew. In a few years there were plants all over the island. In a few more years there were trees growing there.
So you see, these islands were built little by little. The workers were very small. Don’t they teach us a lesson? Can you think what the lesson is?
【小题1】 In the sea _____.

B）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。
Be a potato, but be the best
A young college student thought that he chose the wrong major (专业) at a common college, so he drank every day and didn’t study at all. He b  1   more and more discouraged.
But he was never a  2   from Professor Yang’s biology (生物) class. He liked the course. Besides, Yang’s class was so i  3   that he always listened carefully, never caring about w  4   the other students were paying attention or not in class.
Once he put a note in the homework he handed in, saying: “Professor, it is said that today’s college students are c  5   than potatoes. Do you agree?”
That day Professor Yang sent for him after class. When he came, he f  6  the professor at a table with food on it. They drank happily over their meal.
When they became half drunk, the professor took out a small potato that was sprouting (发芽的). “Do you know how much this c  7 ?” he asked the young man. “It’s soft but poisonous. N  8  will take it even if it’s free. ” He then threw the potato away.
The professor then showed him another potato. It was half the s  9  of a football and perfectly round. “This potato is organic (有机的). It is not only large and fresh but also free of pollution. People are in need of such k  10   of potatoes and they’re quite expensive.”
The young man was impressed by what he’d heard. “Be such a potato,” said the professor.

B）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Be a potato, but be the best

A young college student thought that he chose the wrong major (专业) at a common college, so he drank every day and didn’t study at all. He b  1    more and more discouraged.

But he was never a  2    from Professor Yang’s biology (生物) class. He liked the course. Besides, Yang’s class was so i  3    that he always listened carefully, never caring about w  4    the other students were paying attention or not in class.

    Once he put a note in the homework he handed in, saying: “Professor, it is said that today’s college students are c  5    than potatoes. Do you agree?”

That day Professor Yang sent for him after class. When he came, he f  6   the professor at a table with food on it. They drank happily over their meal.

When they became half drunk, the professor took out a small potato that was sprouting (发芽的). “Do you know how much this c  7  ?” he asked the young man. “It’s soft but poisonous. N  8   will take it even if it’s free. ” He then threw the potato away.

The professor then showed him another potato. It was half the s  9   of a football and perfectly round. “This potato is organic (有机的). It is not only large and fresh but also free of pollution. People are in need of such k  10    of potatoes and they’re quite expensive.”

The young man was impressed by what he’d heard. “Be such a potato,” said the professor.