35. She luckily missed the air crash, for she __________ on the way and was late for her flight.

A had a flat tyre       B caught a bad cold    C broke down        D held up

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When I was a child, I had an old neighbour named Dr. Gibbs. He didn't look like any other doctor I've ever known. He never  36  at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as a kind and  37  person.

When Dr. Gibbs didn't work, he planted trees. His house covered an area of ten acres, and his life's goal was to make it a  38  .

He had some interesting  39  concerning planting. He belonged to the "No pains, no gains"  40  of plant growing. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked  41  . He said, "Watering plants will spoil them, and if you water them, each successive tree  42  will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things  43  for them and weed out the weak ones." So he never watered his trees. He would  44  a pine, and instead of  45  it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I  46  him why he did so, and he said it was to get the tree's  47  .

I planted a couple of trees a few  48  ago. I carried water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them and prayed over them. Two years of careful tending has  49  in trees that expect to be  50  on hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble their branches.

Dr. Gibbs passed away a  51  of years after I left home. Now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees. They're  52  now, big and healthy.

Funny things about Dr. Gibbs' trees. Hardship and difficulty seemed to benefit them  53  comfort and ease never could.

Life is tough, whether we want  54  to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is to pray for  55  that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept away.

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