Question

Jadav Payeng is a forestry worker from Jorhat, India. Over the past 38 years, he has planted trees on a sandbar(沙洲) of the Brahmaputra River and has _______ it into a forest.

One day in 1979, 16-year-old Payeng was walking _______ the bank of the Brahmaputra River. He saw many snakes on the sandbars. These snakes died in a few days’ time _______ the heat and the absence(缺乏) of trees. Payeng felt very _______ when he saw this. He decided to plant some trees. Single-handedly, he started planting bamboo trees, as only bamboo trees could survive(存活) in the sandbars.

To water the trees was a difficult _______ for one man. With his hard work and great effort, day by day the _______ bamboo trees grew into a forest. His tree planting has changed the soil. Now the sandbar is a thick forest and _______ to thousands of plants and animals. A large group of around 100 elephants visit the forest every year and _______ there for a few months.

Payeng is now in _______ fifties. He has planted close to 1,400 acres(英亩) of forests and is ________ as the Forest Man of India. In 2015, he was honored with Padma Shri, one of the top awards in India.

1.A.divided B.turned C.cut

2.A.across B.through C.along

3.A.according to B.because of C.as for

4.A.sad B.lonely C.alone

5.A.condition B.journey C.task

6.A.young B.tall C.wild

7.A.way B.guide C.home

8.A.sit B.lie C.stay

9.A.her B.his C.he

10.A.known B.served C.invited

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