When I was a child, I had an old neighbour named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any other doctor I’ve ever known. He never
11__ at us for playing in his yard. I remembered him as a kind and
_12_ person
When Dr. Gibbs didn’t work, he planted trees. His house covered an area of ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it _
13_ .
He had some interesting _
14 _ concerning planting. He belonged to the “No pains, no gains”
__15 of plant growing. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked
_16__, he said, “Watering plants will spoil them, and if you water them, each successive tree_
17_ will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things
18__for them and weed out the weak ones.” So he never watered his trees. He would
_19__a pine, and instead of
_20__it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I
__21__ him why he did so, and he said it was to get the tree’s
_22__.
I planted a couple of trees a few
_23__ ago. I carried water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them and prayed over them. Two years of careful tending has
_24__ in trees that expect to be
_25__ to hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble their branches.
Dr. Gibbs passed away a
_26__of years after I left home. Now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees. They’re
_27__ now, big and healthy.
Funny things about Dr. Gibbs’ trees. Hardship and difficulty seemed to benefit them
_28__
comfort and ease never could.
Life is tough, whether we want
29_ to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is to pray for
30_ that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be swept away.
小題1: | A.shouted | B.shot | C.a(chǎn)imed | D.pointed |
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小題2: | A.cruel | B.greedy | C.pleasant | D.disciplined |
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小題3: | A.museum | B.park | C.playground | D.forest |
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小題4: | A.features | B.theories | C.characters | D.instructions |
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小題5: | A.class | B.college | C.school | D.university |
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小題7: | A.image | B.product | C.generation | D.species |
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小題8: | A.cheap | B.easy | C.expensive | D.rough |
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小題9: | A.paint | B.plant | C.uproot | D.establish |
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小題10: | A.starving | B.beating | C.watering | D.feeding |
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小題11: | A.a(chǎn)sked | B.told | C.informed | D.demanded |
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小題12: | A.a(chǎn)pproval | B.a(chǎn)ttention | C.pain | D.communication |
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小題13: | A.weeks | B.months | C.years | D.days |
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小題14: | A.resulted | B.produced | C.believed | D.spent |
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小題15: | A.treated | B.tended | C.supported | D.a(chǎn)ttended |
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小題16: | A.number | B.couple | C.row | D.period |
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小題17: | A.trembling | B.dying | C.strong | D.intelligent |
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小題18: | A.while | B.though | C.a(chǎn)s | D.a(chǎn)nd |
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小題20: | A.trunks | B.roots | C.branches | D.Leaves |
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