题目内容：

Payeng’s tree-planting project began when he was 16, when flooding wiped away a large part of forest. Wild life were left without enough ____, and Payeng watched ____ creatures begin to die off from heat. Deeply ____, Payeng determined to grow trees all his life.

“I ____ the forest department and asked them if they could grow trees on the sandbar (沙洲). They said nothing would ____ there. ____, they asked me to try growing bamboo. It was ____, but I did it. What’s more, there was nobody interested to help me,” Payeng said.

Payeng started his forest by ____ bamboo saplings (幼树) every morning and evening. He even brought red ants to the sandbar to help ____ the soil. When his bamboo trees grew, Payeng decided to slowly ____ other species of trees into the sandbar.

Through his ____ act, Payeng changed the sandbar into a thick, green forest that ____ numerous birds, and wild animals. Payeng’s forest went largely ____ until 2008, when a team of state officials ____ it.

“We were surprised to find such a big ____ on the sandbar,” Gunin Saikia, Assam’s Assistant Conservator of Forests, said. “We are ____ at Payeng. He has been at it for 30 years.”

Now, Payeng makes a ____ with his family in the forest he planted by raising cows and selling milk, and he has his ____ set on planting a second forest on another 1,300-acre sandbar.

“It may take another 30 years, but I am ____ about it, “Payeng said ____.

1.A. food    B. water    C. shade    D. space

2.A. dangerous    B. helpless    C. aimless    D. fierce

3.A. moved    B. hurt    C. attracted    D. saddened

4.A. informed    B. blamed    C. disturbed    D. contacted

5.A. grow    B. live    C. occur    D. work

6.A. Therefore    B. Instead    C. Otherwise    D. Fortunately

7.A. pleasant    B. hopeful    C. meaningful    D. painful

8.A. watering    B. cutting    C. counting    D. observing

9.A. change    B. destroy    C. add    D. improve

10.A. throw    B. introduce    C. put    D. send

11.A. unique    B. ridiculous    C. strange    D. sympathetic

12.A. bears    B. includes    C. shelters    D. hides

13.A. unaccepted    B. unnoticed    C. discovered    D. disapproved

14.A. studied    B. researched    C. came from    D. came across

15.A. forest    B. hero    C. bamboo    D. tree

16.A. proud    B. disappointed    C. amazed    D. mad

17.A. living    B. difference    C. wonder    D. plan

18.A. company    B. home    C. limits    D. goals

19.A. anxious    B. optimistic    C. worried    D. curious

20.A. determinedly    B. hesitantly    C. calmly    D. loudly