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The trees arrived by post, a half-open parcel . They were thin and straight, rather like arrows but with shiny leaves at one end and muddy roots at the other. Terry and his father took them down the garden and planted them in their prepared places . Terry had great hopes of the middle tree, now set in the holy spot where Henry, his cat run over, had been laid to rest a year before. The nine trees made an avenue(大街) down one side of the garden, where there was already a fifteen-foot stone wall between the garden and the backyards of the Jenkins Street houses.
“Why do we want a mw of trees as well as a wall?” Terry asked his father.
His father said, “For privacy(隐私) .These trees grow very thickly. ”
His father's love of privacy often puzzled Terry, who was not one to keep himself to himself, but he could see part of the point here. The houses in Jerkins Street were on higher ground. His friend Leslie lived in number twelve, and Leslie had only to stand on a box to see right over the wall.
“Will the trees grow higher than the wall? ”Terry asked then. “Oh, yes, twice, as high if not more. It'll take a few years but they'll grow.”
So they were going to have nine trees thirty feet tall, to keep them from being overlooked(俯视) . Terry wondered why this was so desirable (值得做的) . He said, “Our garden is very pretty. Why can't we let the people over the wall see it? That wouldn't be showing off, would it?”
“'No, I don't think it would be, ”his father said, “yet some people might feel a bit less happy if they can always see a good thing that is not theirs. We don't want to be the cause of any jealousy(嫉妒) if we can help it.”
This consideration for other people's feelings must be a grown-up thing, Terry thought. It was not his idea of how to run things. He said, “These trees seem a lot of trouble to stop people being jealous of us.”
His father looked at him. “It isn't much trouble, Terry. ”he said. “These trees will grow without help from us. They'll be beautiful. And listen to them. You can already hear them whispering to us in the wind. ”
1．Part of the garden is called a holy spot for ________.
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A．a cat was buried there
B．Henry had been run over there
C．Terry's tree was planted in that spot
D．it was right in front of Leslie's house
2．Terry's father was a man who ________.
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A．was proud of his garden and liked showing it off
B．was very sociable towards his neighbours
C．preferred to keep himself to himself
D．felt jealous of the people in Jenkins Street
3．Why were the trees planted in front of the wall?
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A．Because that was where they would grow best.
B．To improve the appearance of the wall.
C．To hide the ugly sight of Jenkins Street.
D．To stop people looking into the garden.
4．The thing that might have made the neighbours feel lees happy was ________.
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A．the row of trees
B．the well-kept
C．the wall
D．the privacy of the place
5．What did Terry not agree with?
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A．Letting outsides see the garden.
B．The height of the houses in Jerkins Street.
C．His father's concern for people's feeling .
D．The way Leslie managed to take over the wall.
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1．A 导解：第一段说中间那棵树种在“神圣的地方”，他的猫一年前被轧死了，埋在那儿．注意本句的结构． 2．C 导解：从文中父子的对话不难看出其父很注重自己的隐私，也提到孩子不像父亲那样不与人来往． 3．D 导解：第五段提到种树的目的是不让对面住户俯视他们的花园． 4．B 导解：从文中父子的对话可知，他们不想让别人看见自己的美丽的花园而心生嫉妒． 5．C 导解：本文最后部分提到的感觉，a grown-up thing，不是他的想法，“让Terry感到困惑”，由此判断他不赞成． |
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