For years I wanted a flower garden. I would spend hours_ _1___ of different things I could plant that would look nice together.
But then we had children, five children! I was too busy _2____ care of them to grow a garden.
Money was always_3____ . When my children were _4____, one of them would want something that cost too much, and I’d get annoyed and say, “ Do you see a money tree outside? Money doesn’t grow on__5___, you know.”
Finally, all five got through college and were off on their own. I started thinking again about having a __6_____.
I wasn’t sure, though. I mean, gardens do cost money.
Then, one spring morning, _7____ Mother’s Day, I was working in my kitchen. __8____, I heard a car come. I looked out of the window and there was a new tree, planted right _9____ the yard.
There was a money tree in my yard! There were dollar bills, one hundred of them, all over that tree.
That was three years ago. My garden is now very pretty, just the way I wanted. I __10___ what my children did for me, and then I get tears in my eyes every time.
| 小题1: | | A．to think | B．think | C．thought | D．thinking |
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| 小题2: | | A．taking | B．to take | C．taken | D．took |
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| 小题3: | | A．short | B．long | C．enough | D．large |
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| 小题4: | | A．few | B．a few | C．little | D．a little |
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| 小题5: | | A．houses | B．trees | C．lands | D．fields |
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| 小题6: | | A．tree | B．garden | C．window | D．kitchen |
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| 小题8: | | A．Luckily | B．Unluckily | C．Certainly | D．Suddenly |
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| 小题9: | | A．in | B．in front of | C．behind | D．near |
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| 小题10: | | A．think of | B．think about | C．think up | D．think over |
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