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　　Professor Barrow's house, big and untidy, stood alone at one end of a huge garden. The place was totally uncared for, quite wild and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I fought my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.

　　I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he put me right on all the points that had puzzled me. As I got ready to leave, I looked out d his study window and said,“You're very fond of gardening, I see,”

　　“No, I'm not,”he said.“But even so, I love this garden. It's as I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”

　　“It could be made lovely. It seems a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don't see it that way?”

　　“I don't. I lived here when I was a child, and I had more than enough of gardening then. It was my father's hobby, you see. Unfortunately, he wasn't fit enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us—with a spade (铁锹) and a fork, year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade of grass was an enemy to be rooted out by hand, not just cut off. I've spent a good part of life at work here.”

　　“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you're getting even (平衡的)!”

　　“I disliked it. That's putting it mildly (说得婉转些). Then, of course, I didn't understand the effect it had. It used to worry me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight there, the enemy showing its head in a place I was supposed to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”

　　“And now it's yours, you're just letting it go to…”

　　“Ruin?”he said.“No, I don't agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like watching it grow in its own way. I make no demands on it. I never interfere with (干扰) it, and it never interferes with me. It has freedom at last, and so have I.”

　　“But the path is overgrown. It's inconvenient for you, isn't it?”

　　“That's part of my pleasure,”he laughed.“You can go out the backway. The weeds are shorter there because they don't get the sun.”

1．How did the professor feel about gardening when he was a child?

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A．He liked his father's wild, overgrown garden.

B．He was glad to be able to help his sick father.

C．He was beginning to dislike it.

D．He just hated it.

2．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

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A．The professor never worked in the garden at all now.

B．The writer thought of the path as part of his pleasure.

C．Barrow and his brother had to take root in the garden.

D．The professor and the writer talked about gardening for 20 minutes.

3．At night young Barrow used to dream that ________.

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A．he let the garden grow in its own way

B．the garden grew too large for him

C．he had done some work in one of the many wrong ways

D．enemies appeared suddenly in the garden and cut off their grass

4．In what way did the garden have“freedom at last”?

A．The main way was through friendship with Barrow.

B．There was no one to control how it grew.

C．Barrow was free to do what he liked with the garden.

D．Only the front garden, where the sun shone, was free.