完形填空。      A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She wanted to    1   because she didn"t know what she
had to do. She felt    2   of fighting and fighting. When one    3   had been solved, another just came.
     Her father, a cook, took her into the kitchen. He    4   water into three pans. After boiling, in the first pan 
  5   some carrots, the second some eggs and the last was put with coffee. He waited without any    6   from
his mouth.
     The girl closed her mouth and waited,    7   by what her father did. After about twenty minutes, her father 
  8   the stove and took out the carrots and the eggs. After that the coffee was poured into the cup.
     Turning back to her daughter, he asked,"What do you   9  ?"
     "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she answered.
     Her father suggested her   10  the carrots. She did and felt the carrots were   11 . Then he asked her to take
the eggs and break them. After   12  them, she got the eggs, cooked and hard.   13 , he asked her to smell the
coffee. She asked   14 , "What"s the meaning on earth, father?" He explained that   15  had experienced the same
unfortunate-the boiling water, but made   16  responses. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after
in the   17  water. The fragile eggs became hard after cooked. Coffee was very unique, but it could   18   water.
     "   19  are you?" asked her father,"When the suffering knocks at your door, how is your    20  ? Are you
carrots, eggs, or coffee?"

(      )1. A. catch up    (      )2. A. tired        (      )3. A. matter      (      )4. A. made        (      )5. A. was added    (      )6. A. breath      (      )7. A. judged      (      )8. A. turned off  (      )9. A. mean        (      )10. A. touching    (      )11. A. bad        (      )12. A. hitting    (      )13. A. Besides    (      )14. A. impatiently (      )15. A. nothing    (      )16. A. different  (      )17. A. cold        (      )18. A. influence  (      )19. A. Who        (      )20. A. feeling

B. wear out     B. thrilled     B. business     B. poured       B. were put     B. praises     B. frightened   B. turned up   B. see         B. eat         B. hard         B. peeling     B. Thus         B. shyly       B. anything     B. certain     B. boiled       B. spoil       B. Which       B. replacement

C. give up                C. confident        C. puzzle                C. put            C. remained              C. words              C. disappointed    C. turned down              C. suggest        C. to observe              C. soft            C. beating            C. Still            C. regretfully          C. each thing        C. more                      C. boiling      C. improve                  C. What            C. refusal

D. run out                                  D. promising                    D. problem                                D. turned                 D. increased                            D. complaints                     D. confused                     D. turned away                                        D. explain                  D. kept                                     D. gentle               D. destroying                           D. Lastly                   D. bravely                              D. something                    D. unequal                                        D. changeable           D. change                                       D. How                D. reaction