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Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′) [2016·双鸭山一中模拟]The first week we moved into our apartment, it began flooding. It __1__ us where the water was coming from. It had been __2__ that it came from a hole in the water filter (过滤器). __3__， the water filter man told us that nothing was wrong with it. We were nearly out of our __4__ while we were exploring the cause. We searched for the __5__ leak for at least a month. __6__， my husband couldn't bear it and urged, “Let's move away from here.” Then a repairman, who fixed the oven, __7__ us. When he finished his work, I __8__ to ask him, “Do you have any idea why our apartment floods？” I __9__ him where we always had water on the floor. “There must be something __10__，” he told me. We were __11__ at what he said. Could all this water on my floor be coming not from something broken, __12__ from a blocked pipe? We called a plumber (水管工人). He put his tube deep into the drain (排水沟). And then __13__ a big pencil sharpener flew out of the pipe. So did our __14__， which bothered us all the time. I learned a very important __15__ from this pencil sharpener. Everyone should be ready to __16__ depressions in life. You don't have a job, or you are __17__ something, or you can't get what you want. You tell yourself that there is something wrong with you. However, in those moments of __18__， you always have to remember: It's not that there is something wrong with yourself; it's not that you have __19__ or defects. You just have to __20__ the thing that is pulling yourself down. | 
