根据所给单词的首字母，拼写出下列句子中的单词的正确形式，使句子完整、通顺。
【小题1】It looks like rain. You’d better take an u__________.
【小题2】You’ll have to make your c__________ now, go or not to go.
【小题3】The radio doesn’t work. Perhaps it n__________ a new battery.
【小题4】 Prices are r__________ fast nowadays. 100 yuan can’t go a long way.
【小题5】When summer comes, days become longer and n__________ become shorter.
【小题6】 What a p__________! He missed the last bus. As a result, he had to walk home.
【小题7】I wonder why I can’t get good grades t__________ I have studied so hard for months.
【小题8】An accident happened at the crossroads just now. But, l__________, nobody got hurt.
【小题9】The boy’s toy fell into a hole with 3 meters d__________. He couldn’t get it out.
【小题10】People who are friendly and helpful make it a lot e_________to get along with in a new place.

短文填空 根据短文内容及首字母提示，补全空格内单词，使短文完整、通顺。（请在答题卡上写出完整单词）（本大题共10小题，满分10分）

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the h  1. .

A man was w  2.  by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, wrote some words on the other side of it. Then he put the sign back s__3.__ that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot m  4.  people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had c  5. the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a d  6.  way.”

What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful day, b  7.  I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Of course b8.  signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign s 9.  said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so l  10.  that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?