An old woman has two large pots, one on each end of a pole（扁担）. She carried the pole with the pots（壶）__
__ her neck.
One of the pots had a crack（裂缝）in it while the other pot was perfect and always filled a full pot of water. At the end of the long __
_ from the well（井）to the house, the cracked pot _
only half-full left.
For two years this happened daily, with the woman bringing home only __
___ pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was _
__. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection.
One day, the cracked pot spoke to the woman _
__ the well:“I am ashamed of myself because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your __
__.”
The old woman smiled:“Did you notice that there are ___
__ on your side of the path, but not on __
__ pot’s side? That’s because I have __
_ known about your crack, so I __
__ flower seeds（籽）on your side of the path. And every day while we walk back, you ___
__ them.” She added, “ For _
_ years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate（装饰）the table. Without you, being just the ___
___ you are, I would not have this beauty.”
Each of us has our own cracks. But it’s these __
_ that make our lives together so interesting and meaningful.
| 小题1: | | A．cross | B．across | C．past | D．through |
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| 小题2: | | A．travel | B．ride | C．walk | D．trip |
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| 小题3: | | A．arrived | B．held | C．reached | D．meant |
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| 小题4: | | A．one or two | B．one and a half | C．two | D．half and one |
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| 小题5: | | A．proud | B．sad | C．happy | D．worried |
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| 小题7: | | A．field | B．side | C．well | D．house |
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| 小题8: | | A．seeds | B．pots | C．plants | D．flowers |
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| 小题9: | | A．other | B．the other | C．another | D．others |
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| 小题10: | | A．never | B．ever | C．always | D．often |
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| 小题11: | | A．took | B．made | C．planted | D．kept |
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| 小题12: | | A．water | B．see | C．visit | D．understand |
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| 小题13: | | A．many | B．a few | C．two | D．three |
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| 小题15: | | A．decorations | B．seeds | C．flowers | D．cracks |
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