阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once, there lived a young short monk in a temple on top of a hill, caring for his vegetable garden. He had one daily task of carryingtwo
1 of water up the hill from a cold stream. Rain or shine, he never
2 a day carrying water up the mountain to the temple. One day, a thin and tall 3 monk passed the temple and the young monk invited him to
4 . Since they would share the water, they went down the mountain together to fetch water. But the carrying pole is only
5 enough for one bucket. The two monks were unable to
6 the shared load on their carrying pole without shaking the contents of the two buckets all over the short monk. They
7 to retain（保留） only a small
8 of water that the young monk would have carried on his own, not mentioning to
9 the garden. When the young monk began to see his guest as
10 , the other monk began to see his host as unreasonable. Then a
11 monk came. The
12 of the third monk urged everyone to expect that someone else would take on the chore. As a result, no one fetched water though everybody was
13 . One night, a rat jumped and knocked the candleholder（烛台）, leading to a devastating(毁坏性的)
14 in the temple. The three monks finally united together to put out the fire. Since then they understood the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a 15 life. The temple never lacks water again.
| 小题1: | | A．buckets | B．bowls | C．bottles | D．cups |
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| 小题2: | | A．lost | B．spared | C．missed | D．spent |
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| 小题3: | | A．traveling | B．roaming | C．begging | D．hiking |
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小题4:A. help B stay. C. live D. carry
小题5:A. short B. straight C long. D. strong
| 小题6: | | A．balance | B．fasten | C．lift | D．hold |
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| 小题7: | | A．failed | B．managed | C．tried | D．wished |
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| 小题8: | | A．sum | B．number | C．drop | D．amount |
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| 小题9: | | A．look for | B．look at | C．care with | D．care for |
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| 小题10: | | A．unhappy | B．unforgettable | C．ungrateful | D．unrelated |
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| 小题11: | | A．first | B．second | C．third | D．fourth |
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| 小题12: | | A．mistake | B．arrival | C．death | D．leaving |
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| 小题13: | | A．tired | B．hungry | C．thirsty | D．angry |
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| 小题14: | | A．fire | B．flood | C．storm | D．earthquake |
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| 小题15: | | A．hard | B．poor | C．rich | D．harmonious |
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