“But what if I break my arm again?” My five-year-old daughter asked, looking very_______. I knew how much she wanted to learn to _________.Yet ever since she fell off her bicycle and broke her arm, she’d been afraid .

“Oh, honey,” I said. “I don’t think you’ll break another arm .”

“_________ I could, couldn’t I?”

“Yes,” I _______ . At that time, how I wish I _______ someone who might help me find the right words to make my girl’s problems disappear.

“ I don’t want to ride,” she said and got off her bike.

“ You know, honey,” I said. “_______ everything you do comes with risks(冒险). You _______ break your arm in a car accident and then be afraid to ever ride in a car. You could have your arm _______ jumping a rope. You could get a broken arm at sports. Do you want to _______ going to do sports?”

“No,” she said. And with a determined spirit, she agreed to try it again. I________her bike until she found the ________ to say, “Let’s go!” I spent the rest of the afternoon watching a brave little girl overcome a ________, and congratulating myself for being a useful parent after a painful divorce(离婚).

As we walked home, she asked me about a conversation she overheard me having with my mother. “Grandma wanted you to find someone to ________,” “What grandma wants is for someone to ________ my heart again.”I lost control. “But, Mom.” ”You are too young to________ it.”I told her, “I think love isn’t like a broken arm. I don’t want to think about it again.” Then she said she knew uncle Steve was the man for me.

“It’s nothing,” I told her.

Then she said something__________me to think about.

Unable to answer, we went on walking in ________ . When I got home, I called my mother and ________ her for talking about this to my daughter. Later I did what my brave girl did that afternoon. I agreed to meet Steve.

Steve was the man for me. We__________a year later. It turned out mother and my daughter were ________.

1.A. satisfied B. optimistic C. sad D. excited

2.A. ride B. buy C. drive D. walk

3.A. And B. However C. But D. Instead

4.A. laughed B. cried C. complained D. replied

5.A. have B. Will C. Had D. has

6.A. Most B. Mostly C. Hardly D. Almost

7.A. must B. could C. should D. would

8.A. break B. to break C. broken D. breaking

9.A. try B. stop C. start D. begin

10.A. held out B. held up C. held on D. held on to

11.A. strength B. courage C. feeling D. sense

12.A. shame B. difficult C. fear D. mistake

13.A. help B. live C. teach D. love

14.A. destroy B. break C. provide D. predict

15.A. accept B. understand C. believe D. receive

16.A. of B. for C. with D. by

17.A. surprise B. a hurry C. silence D. pleasure

18.A. appreciated B. thanked C. blamed D. charged

19.A. argued B. left C. removed D. married

20.A. clever B. wrong C. right D. careful

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.

When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: "No pain, no gain". He hardly watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water. So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.

Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some twenty five years ago. They were all tall and strong.

I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity(逆境) seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb's trees in ways comfort and ease never could.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray 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 meet with hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be torn apart.

1.With the trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often ________.

A. kept watering them every morning

B. beat them to make them grow deep roots

C. talked to them to get their attention

D. paid little attention to them

2.Which prayer does the author wish for his sons?

A. Have an easy life, without too much to worry about.

B. Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.

C. Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their life.

D. Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future.

3.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Prayers for my sons B. Doctor Gibbs and his trees

C. Growing roots D. Watering trees

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