题目内容

 

Grow deep roots

When I was young, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He ____invited us to play in this yard, but he was a very kind person.

Dr. Gibbs had some ___ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants would spoil them. If you watered them, each young tree would grow weaker and weaker. So you had to make things difficult for them and __the weaker trees early.

He talked about how watered trees grew shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in ____of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important. So he never watered his trees.

Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. When I came back home, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about 25 years ago. They were very big and strong. I planted some trees a few years later and carried water to them for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blow in, they ___a lot.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I hope that their lives will be ___. But now it’s time to change my thought . I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is get roots that reach deep into the brave heart. When the rains fall and the winds blow, we can face them strongly and won't be beaten down.

1.A.always B.never C.probably D.directly

2.A.general B.crazy C.interesting D.wrong

3.A.look up B.put off C.depend on D.pick up

4.A.search B.need C.charge D.favour

5.A.grow B.cover C.shake D.change

6.A.long B.easy C.difficult D.horrible

 

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.A

5.C

6.B

【解析】

试题解析:本文大意:吉布斯先生关于种树的想法很有趣,他从不给小树浇水,如果浇水,小树会越长越弱,所以你要给它们制造困难,早点把较弱的树挑出来。浇水的树扎的根浅,不被浇水的树会自己长深根去寻找地下的水。教育子女也如何给小树浇水,关爱太多,往往经不起风雨。

1.A、very kind person但他是个非常和气的人,可知选B

2.

3.

4.

5.A、cold wind blow in不管什么时候冷风吹过,可知选C

6.

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