WhenIwasgrowingup,IhadanoldneighbournamedDr.Gibbs.Hedid...

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When I was growing up, I had an old neighbour named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like other doctors I had ever known. He never __21__ at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone nice and __22__. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving __23__, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s __24__ was to make it a forest.

But he _25__watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants would _26__ them, and that __27__ you water them, each successive(後繼的) __28_ of trees will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things _29__ for them.

He’d planted an oak, and instead of watering it every morning, he’d __30__ it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to cause the tree’s __31__. Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years ago. _32_, I walk by his house and look at the trees that I watched him plant some 25 years ago. They are big and __33_ now. Sufferings seemed to __34__ them in ways ease and __35__ never could.

    Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be__36__. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to _37__ my prayer, because life is __38__, whether we want it to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s what we seldom __39__. What we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be_40__. 

21. A. smiled                B. shouted           C. looked                    D. kicked

22. A. cold                   B. lonely                 C. mild（温和的）D. careful

23. A. money                 B. lives                   C. flowers       D. energy

24. A. goal                       B. way                     C. attitude             D. theory

25. A. regularly                    B. sometimes          C. never               D. always

26. A. remove                 B. benefit                 C. drown            D. spoil

27. A. if                              B. unless                   C. although        D. since

28. A. kind                  B. group                 C. rank              D. generation

29. A. rough                        B. free                        C. available        D. poisonous

30. A. protected                   B. tied                     C. beat                D. wrapped

31. A. anger                     B. defence                C. shade              D. death

32. A. More or less        B. Now and again   C. Sooner or later  D. Here and there

33. A. thin                   B. dying                C. ripe                  D. strong

34. A. benefit                       B. harm                 C. affect                D. change

35. A. cure                     B. danger                 C. comfort               D. difficulty

36. A. interesting           B. colorful           C. easy                    D. hopeful

37. A. strengthen           B. change              C. repeat           D. realize

38. A. tough                    B. helpless             C. various               D. valuable

39. A. seek                          B. prove                C. share                   D. meet

40. A. challenged           B. defeated            C. missed               D. forgotten

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