题目内容：

Section C (8 marks)

There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair(集市) 1.___ it won a blue ribbon.

One year, a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned 2.______ interesting about how he grew it. 3.______ reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn(粮种) with his neighbors.

“How can you afford to do that when they are entering their corn in competition4.______

yours each year?” the reporter asked.

“Why sir,” said the farmer, “don’t you know? The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and spreads 5._____ from field to field. If my neighbors grow bad corn, cross-pollination will gradually reduce the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”

He is fully aware 6._____ the connectedness of life. His corn can’t improve 7.______ his neighbors’ corn also improves. 8.______ it is with our lives.