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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