题目内容：

词语运用。阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。每个词只能用一词，每空限用一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。其中有两个是多余选项。（10分）

or, end, provide, deep, safe, form, thick, small, complete, talk, rubbish, however

At the edge of a forest stood a big tree. It protected people from the sun and ___1.___ shelters(庇护处) for birds and other small animals. At the foot of the tree grew a little plant. She was so ___2.___ that nobody ever noticed her. One day, the two neighbors were having a __3.__.

“Well, little one,” said the tree. “Why don’t you plant your feet 4.__ in the ground and raise your head up high in the air as I do?”

“Well, I think I may be __5.___ this way,” answered the plant with a smile.

“Safer?” said the tree. “Do you think that you’re safer than I am? Do you know how deep my roots are buried, and how __6.__ my trunk is? Even if two men hold hands, they will not be able to surround my trunk. Who can possibly pluck(拔起) me by the roots ___7.__ bow my head to the ground?” And then the tree turned away from the plant quickly.

But the tree felt regret very soon.

One evening a great hurricane(飓风) hit the forest. It almost __8.___ destroyed the forest. And the tree that had once almost touched the sky was now uprooted(连根拔起).

___9._, when the hurricane came, the little plant bent over and lay down on the ground. When the hurricane ___10.___, it stood upright again.