题目内容：

Once upon a time, there was a poor man. His _______ was also very poor — a small and empty house, which was _______ with spider webs (蜘蛛网). People tried to _______ coming into his house as they didn’t want to come to such a _______ place. And the poor man thought that poverty (贫困) was the  _______ for his unlucky life.

Then, the poor man _______ a wise man and told him about his poverty. The man felt sorry for the poor man and gave him a vase (花瓶). “This will save you from _______,” the wise man_______ . The poor man took the _______ from the wise man and wanted to sell it at first and then spend the money on drinking, as usual. Besides, why would he ________ such a beautiful thing? But then he started ________ the vase carefully and decided not to take it to the market. He brought the vase back to his house, put it on the table and started watching it again.

“It’s not ________for such a beautiful thing to be empty,” the poor man thought. So he pick some flowers and put them into the vase. It became even ________. “Not good that such a beautiful thing stands next to a spider web,” the poor man ________ again.

So the poor man started cleaning  his house. He cleaned the dust, washed the floor and whitened the walls. And it became clear that his house wasn’t poor, ________ rather warm and comfortable. And the poor man wasn’t a poor man anymore, but a hard-working host, who had no time to think about poverty.

1.A. child    B. home    C. health    D. village

2.A. treated    B. built    C. filled    D. covered

3.A. consider    B. forget    C. enjoy    D. avoid

4.A. quiet    B. dirty    C. cold    D. wet

5.A. reason    B. result    C. problem    D. change

6.A. helped    B. thanked    C. met    D. protected

7.A. danger    B. death    C. poverty    D. trouble

8.A. said    B. shouted    C. cried    D. wrote

9.A. money    B. vase    C. table    D. flower

10.A. bring    B. buy    C. like    D. need

11.A. washing    B. looking at    C. repairing    D. showing off

12.A. important    B. right    C. possible    D. easy

13.A. more beautiful    B. stranger    C. more expensive    D. stronger

14.A. expected    B. thought    C. believed    D. doubted

15.A. or    B. for    C. but    D. and