Question

My grandma is good at gardening. She could make anything bloom(开花). _ __ me. In my eyes, she was inspiring and __ __. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, where she brought up four children, and buried my grandpa.

I visited her on weekends. After the gardening work, I was __ __ to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. She would say, "Beauty has a ___. I hope it was worth it."

"Yes, ma' ma," I'd say. "_ __ was."

I loved gathering flowers on my own. But what I loved best was gathering them with her. Even then, as a child, I knew what I wanted most from my grandma was not her flowers, but her __ __. She's been gone for years, but sometimes, when I __ __down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her __ __, not mine.

I thought I'd grow up to be a gardener too. I told myself, someday my children had children, I'd be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered 1'd much rather run after them __ __ go digging. Actually I'm no gardener. I'm a __ __, not a planter. I differ from my grandma in lots of ways, but this: I will always carry __ __ me a heart she made from her own.

I needn’t plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price. All I need to do is __ __ them with time, water them with love, and hope that someday, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.

1.A. NotB. EvenC. OnlyD. Often

2.A. famousB. humorousC. caringD. amusing

3.A. determinedB. anxiousC. curiousD. free

4.A. standardB. rangeC. priceD. quality

5.A. ItB. IC. SheD. That

6.A. possessionB. promiseC. beautyD. time

7.A. climbB. reachC. lookD. sit

8.A. smileB. spiritC. soulD. hand

9.A. thanB. untilC. unlessD. since

10.A. workerB. teacherC. pickerD. farmer

11.A.toB. withinC. beyondD. for

12.A. attendB. missC. promoteD. influence

Answer 1