题目内容
B. passed
C. pass
D. passes
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow(浅的)roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important.
So he never watered his trees. He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They’re very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for whole summer.
After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray(祈祷)that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won’t be beaten down.
【小题1】We know from the passage the doctor .
A.didn’t know how to plant trees at all |
B.wasn’t good at his own medical job |
C.had his own ways of planting trees |
D.had nothing to do but plant trees |
A.some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning |
B.he would choose the weak trees to water earlier |
C.the weak trees would be sent to his patients later |
D.he would not plant weak trees so early anymore |
A.should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper |
B.didn’t often water his trees |
C.didn’t have a large field |
D.took too much care of his trees |
A.Watering trees |
B.Growing roots |
C.Doctor and his neighbor |
D.Father and his children |
You can reach almost any goal if you want to—but sometimes it takes great efforts to realize your dream.
That was quite true for me.When I was 17 years old,I broke my father’s_____.He had saved enough from an average income to send me to college to become a lawyer.Three months later I was home telling him that I had left college — and for the first time I saw him ______.
“Son,I’m always going to love you even though you’ll never achieve anything,’’he said with tears(眼泪)in his eyes.
When I walked out of that room,I was burning with something within my body.Not everyone has the chance to feel it.I did not just want to______ — I had to.
But I couldn't see how to do it and all the time my father’s words were in my mind. I become a salesperson.It was not______ because I knew almost nothing about marketing.
Then a man introduced me to the Edwards training course.I went and learned a lot of useful______.I tried my best to put them to work.Soon after that,I started tasting the sweet fruits of Success for the first time.
Some time later,I told the manager of my company that I would like to meet with Mr.Edwards.They arranged it for me.When the day came,I told him,“Mr. Edwards,my goal is to be able to train people just as you trained me.’’______,he agreed to let me try.
All that came true because I set goals to make it happen.Sticking to the goal was the most important.
1.A.promise B.record C.heart D.law
2.A.shout B.cry C.laugh D.relax
3.A.succeed B.argue C.stop D.move
4.A.fair B.easy C.serious D.safe
5.A.poems B.dialogues C.excuses D.skills
6.A.Luckily B.Usually C.Clearly D.Suddenly