1 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式(不多于3个单词)
There was a young flower in the desert     1    all was dry and sad looking... It was growing by itself,    2    (enjoy) every day and saying to the sun, "     3    shall I be grown up?" And the sun would say "Be    4    (patience) ! Each time I touch you, you grow a little." She was so pleased,     5    she would have a chance to bring beauty to this corner of sand. And this is all she wanted to do - bring a little bit of beauty to this world.
    6    one day the hunter came by and stepped on her. She was going to die and she felt so sad, not because she was    7    (die), but because she would     8    (ever) have a chance to bring a little bit of beauty to this corner of the desert.
The great spirit saw her, and was listening. - Indeed, he said... She should be living... So he reached down and touched her -- and gave her    9    second life.
Finally she grew up to be a beautiful flower. And this corner of the desert also became so beautiful because    10    the little flower.

2 . ______ all the seats full, he had no choice but to stand up.

A．For

B．As

C．Though

D．With

3 . The Smiths are praised _______ the way they bring up their children.

A．from

B．by

C．at

D．for

4 . Today, ____ rapid transportation and communication, the whole world seems to be smaller．

A．regardless of

B．in spite of

C．because of

D．instead of

5 . _____ all his followers dead, the captain was taken by his enemy．

A．For

B．As

C．Because of

D．With

6 . _______all his efforts he failed, he was so upset about himself that he felt like crying.

A．So long as

B．In terms of

C．In spite of

D．regardless of

7 . Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact     1    she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished    2    a driving mistake.
Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without     3    （stop).
When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason     4    she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak     5    old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished     6    he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she     7    choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.
When she had     8    （success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts     9    your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary     10    (dismiss解雇), and her record remained unbroken.

8 . Mr．Shaw can’t get promotion ________ his lack of qualifications．

A．thanks to

B．for

C．because

D．because of

9 . Sometimes our opinions differ _________ what we choose to observe and how we deal with what we’ve observed

A．which

B．since

C．because

D．because of