Mr. White grows the nicest vegetables in the village. He grows fruit too—big, sweet apples and oranges. And what else? Well, the biggest and the loveliest flowers.

Things grow in Mr. White’s garden the whole year. He cuts some flowers for his sitting room table, and, of course he eats some fruits and vegetables. He sells everything else in the market.

He knows a few other gardeners, but he does not have any friends. People do not understand him. And they know little about his garden. It’s a wonderful garden. Mr. White plants things in spring. After that he does very little work. He sits in the garden with his small radio. And everything grows all year round.

People asks, “How does Mr. White grow those wonderful things? He waters the plants sometimes, but he doesn’t do anything else. He just sits under an orange tree with his radio. He listens to the music nearly all day!” And that is quite true. People can not understand it, and so they don’t like it very much.

Mr. White likes music. But what about the garden? Who does the work? Let me tell you: the music does the work. All plants like music, and Mr. White knows that.

Do you want big vegetables and the loveliest flowers? Well, just give your plants a lot of music.

(     )46. Mr. White grows ______.

A. vegetables, apples and oranges     B. vegetables and flowers

C. vegetables, apples and flowers     D. vegetables, fruit and flowers

(     )47. In Mr. White’s garden, there are plants ______.

A. in spring and summer            B. in autumn and summer

C. in warm seasons                D. in four seasons

(     )48. The new way of growing plants is ______.

A. to stay with the plants            B. to keep the garden cool

C. to let the plants listen to the music  D. to sit under an orange tree

(     )49. Mr. White has few friends because ______.

A. he doesn’t want to have many friends

 B. people don’t like him

C. people don’t understand him and his garden.

D. Mr. White has everything in his garden and other people don’t.

(     )50. This passage mainly talks about ______.

A. Mrs. White’s Wonderful Garden     B. Music

C. Music and Plants                 D. How to Grow

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Children use their parents as models, whether the model is good or bad. My neighbors are very good    1  .

Mrs. Goodhouse is a careful housekeeper.    2   she went to work yesterday, her children cleaned the rooms. The eldest daughter took all the carpets    3    and shook them. The middle daughter did all the dishes, and the youngest daughter put the toys    4   good order. The only boy in the family cleaned the furniture. When the children    5   their work, they put beautiful flowers on the table for their mother.

Mrs. Frowze is a terrible housekeeper. When she went to work, her children made a big mess. One of    6   drank some coke and threw the bottle. The glass wasn’t swept up, and the carpet was made    7   . The rubbish in the kitchen grew    8    because the children ate bananas and oranges and threw the peels on the floor. One child drew pictures on the wall and rode his bike in the rooms. Both mothers    9   home, but    10   of them was glad of that.

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