The professor’s house, big and untidy, stood alone at one end of a huge garden. The place was totally uncared for, quite __
36__ and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I __
37__ my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I found him. In twenty minutes he put me right on all the __
38__ that had puzzled me. I was on the __
39__ of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see”
“No, I’m not,” he said. “__
40__, I love this garden, though. It’s __
41__ I always wanted it to be. I never touch it __
42__ all.”
“It could be made lovely. It seems a pity to let all this ground go to _
_43__. But perhaps you don’t _
44__ that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had
45 of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby, you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t
46 _ enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be _
_47__ 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!”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the effect it had. It used to _
_48__ me. It appeared in my __
49__ ——— a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was _
_50__ 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 ...”
“_
_51__?” he said. “No, I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like
_52__ it grow in its own way. I make no _
_53__ on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has _
54__ at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s _
_55__ for you, isn’t it?”
“That’s part of my pleasure,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”
小题1: | A.wild | B.crazy | C.large | D.nice |
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小题2: | A.lost | B.felt | C.made | D.took |
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小题3: | A.gardening | B.problems | C.plants | D.solution |
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小题4: | A.time | B.request | C.permission | D.point |
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小题5: | A.Even so | B.So | C.As though | D.Even if |
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小题6: | A.where | B.as | C.why | D.whether |
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小题8: | A.desert | B.trouble | C.garden | D.waste |
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小题9: | A.recognize | B.observe | C.know | D.see |
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小题10: | A.much | B.enough | C.something | D.nothing |
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小题11: | A.interested | B.excited | C.fit | D.demanding |
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小题12: | A.fought | B.ruled | C.rooted | D.cut |
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小题13: | A.worry | B.shock | C.astonish | D.disappoint |
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小题14: | A.life | B.dreams | C.house | D.hands |
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小题15: | A.thought | B.expected | C.ordered | D.supposed |
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小题16: | A.Ruin | B.Develop | C.Grow | D.Sell |
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小题17: | A.watching | B.attending | C.watering | D.noticing |
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小题18: | A.comments | B.difference | C.sense | D.demands |
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小题19: | A.time | B.freedom | C.sunlight | D.space |
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小题20: | A.important | B.useless | C.inconvenient | D.previous |
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