题目内容：

A young man was walking by the lakeside when he suddenly saw a piece of gold glittering in the lake. He was so happy that he jumped into the ___to look for it. But he couldn’t __it however hard he tried. Being wet, dirty and tired, he had to go ashore (上岸) for a ___.

Unexpectedly, after the water became ___, the gold appeared again.

He jumped into it again, ___once again the gold disappeared. So he had to go ashore again to sit beside the ___. He thought, “Where is the gold coin in the water on earth? I have seen it ___, but how come it is that all the attempts were made without any success?” Driven by the ___to get the gold, he searched the water again and again, but ___, which made him really unwilling to ___ .

At that moment, his father came to ___him. Seeing his son wet and dirty, he asked, “What ___? Why do you look so ___? ”

His son answered, “I see a piece of gold coin in the water clearly, but I can’t get it____!”

His father looked into the water and it seemed that a gold coin was on the peaceful water. Then he looked up at the tree nearby and said to his son, “You are ___. Look! It’s not a gold coin but the reflection of the metal ____on the tree.”

Ordinary people are always busy ____illusory (虚幻的) things and all these just result from hoping for____, which weakens our ability to ___right from wrong. So we should choose the right ___of life and learn to understand and thank everything, which will help us live a happy life.

1.A. water    B. forest    C. bank    D. air

2.A. search    B. pick    C. receive    D. get

3.A. change    B. start    C. rest    D. sleep

4.A. dirty    B. calm    C. warm    D. shallow

5.A. so    B. as    C. but    D. or

6.A. lake    B. pool    C. river    D. sea

7.A. cautiously    B. obviously    C. possibly    D. believably

8.A. desire    B. request    C. interest    D. value

9.A. at peace    B. with purpose    C. in progress    D. in vain

10.A. watch    B. understand    C. accept    D. receive

11.A. look into    B. argue with    C. deal with    D. look for

12.A. changed    B. happened    C. mattered    D. lost

13.A. frightened    B. excited    C. embarrassed    D. delighted

14.A. anyway    B. meanwhile    C. instead    D. otherwise

15.A. cute    B. careful    C. wonderful    D. wrong

16.A. lying    B. hanging    C. growing    D. standing

17.A. running into    B. looking after    C. running after    D. looking into

18.A. more    B. little    C. less    D. few

19.A. bring    B. benefit    C. stop    D. tell

20.A. sense    B. direction    C. role    D. responsibility