1. (2018高一上·集宁月考) 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。

    Once upon a time, there was a poor man. His 1 was also very poor — a small and empty house, which was2 with spider webs (蜘蛛网). People tried to 3 coming into his house as they didn't want to come to such a 4 place. And the poor man thought that poverty (贫困) was the  5 for his unlucky life.

    Then, the poor man 6 a wise man and told him about his poverty. The man felt sorry for the poor man and gave him a vase (花瓶). “This will save you from 7,” the wise man8. The poor man took the 9 from the wise man and wanted to sell it at first and then spend the money on drinking, as usual. Besides, why would he 10 such a beautiful thing? But then he started 11 the vase carefully and decided not to take it to the market. He brought the vase back to his house, put it on the table and started watching it again.

    “It's not 12for such a beautiful thing to be empty,” the poor man thought. So he pick some flowers and put them into the vase. It became even 13. “Not good that such a beautiful thing stands next to a spider web,” the poor man 14 again.

    So the poor man started cleaning his house. He cleaned the dust, washed the floor and whitened the walls. And it became clear that his house wasn't poor, 15 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.