题目内容：

Once there was a lovely vegetable field with a very big tree in it. Both of the vegetables and the tree made the garden look wonderful.

One day, the vegetables and the tree couldn't get on well with ______. The vegetables disliked the tree because they thought the tree didn't leave them enough ______ by covering them with its thick leaves while the tree thought that the vegetables drank nearly all the water before it could reach him.

The situation became worse and worse. One day the vegetables decided to ______ all the water in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree fought back by refusing to offer the vegetables shade(树荫). Soon they both began to dry up under the hot sun.

Neither of them expected that the gardener would stop ______ his vegetable field because he thought it was ______ to save the vegetables. When the gardener did that, the tree and the vegetables really felt how ______ they were. There seemed to be no way to solve the problem. Then a small pumpkin decided to do something to change the situation. The small pumpkin did all he could to grow ______ there was little water and it was too hot.

Finally, the gardener ______ the growing pumpkin among the dying vegetables. _____, he started to water the field again because he still wanted to make a(n) ____ to win the beautiful pumpkin. At the same time, the tree and the vegetables were saved. Since then, they realized that it was better to help each other than to fight, and they lived in harmony with other plants.

1.A. other plants    B. the gardener    C. each other    D. the pumpkin

2.A. light    B. water    C. air    D. wind

3.A. look up    B. use up    C. pick up    D. put up

4.A. picking    B. growing    C. planting    D. watering

5.A. hopeless    B. important    C. hopeful    D. necessary

6.A. angry    B. hungry    C. thirsty    D. comfortable

7.A. so    B. though    C. but    D. and

8.A. watched    B. knew    C. harvested    D. noticed

9.A. Therefore    B. However    C. Besides    D. Also

10.A. decision    B. idea    C. effort    D. chance