题目内容：

Two friends were walking through the desert desert (沙漠). During the trip they had a____ , and one friend hit the other in the face. The one who was beaten was hurt, but without saying____ , he wrote in the sand: "Today my best friend hit me in the face."

They______on walking until they found a lake, where they decided to take a bath (洗澡). The one, who had been beaten, fell into the lake and started drowning (溺水), but the friend saved him. After he came back to life from the near drowning, he wrote on a____ : "Today my best friend saved my life."

The friend who had hit and ____ his best friend asked: "_____I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you wrote on a stone, why?" The other friend ____: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand ____ wind can blow it away.___ , when someone does something good for us, we must write it down in stone where no_____ can ever blow it away."

1.A. talk    B. joke    C. fight    D. picnic

2.A. something    B. nothing    C. anything    D. everything

3.A. kept    B. continued    C. lasted    D. tried

4.A. sand    B. stone    C. tree    D. wall

5.A. killed    B. hurt    C. saved    D. made

6.A. Before    B. While    C. Until    D. After

7.A. replied    B. asked    C. questioned    D. required

8.A. which    B. how    C. where    D. when

9.A. Although    B. Or    C. But    D. If

10.A. wind    B. water    C. air    D. sand