题目内容
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卷标号为56~65的相应位置上。
A certain man planted a rose and watered it ___1.___ (faith).And before it blossomed, he examined it.He saw the bud that __2.__ (come) out soon, but noticed thorns(棘刺) upon the stem and he thought, “How can any beautiful flower come from a plant __3.__(burden) with so many sharp thorns?” Saddened by this thought, he didn’t water the rose any longer, and just_4.__ it was ready to come out…it died.
__5._ it is with many people.Within every soul there is a rose.The God-like qualities, planted in us _6.__ birth, grow surrounded by the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the faults.
We despair(绝望), __7._(think) that nothing good can possibly come from us.We fail to water the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never realize our potential(潜能).
Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show _8.__ to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possess _9._(be) to be able to reach past the thorns of another, and find _10.__ rose within them.