题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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. “This will save you from _____ ,” the wise man _____. The poor man took the _____ from the wise man and wanted to _____ 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 _____, put it on the table and started watching it again.

“It’s not _____ for such a beautiful thing to be_____ ,” the poor man thought. So he _____ 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 _____ 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. home          B. child           C. health         D. village

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10.A. draw       B. study          C. throw           D. sell

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

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

13.A.school        B. farm          C. shop            D. house

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

15.A. big         B. empty           C. old             D. safe

16.A. planted    B. picked          C. stole           D.borrowed

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

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

19.A. cleaning     B. checking       C. moving          D. choosing

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