Don’t Wait Until Flowers Fade
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches (路沟) along the highway I travel daily to work.
There is one
blue flower that has always
my eye. I’ve noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, and the afternoon sun is too warm
it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful
.
This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the
window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I’ve often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look
in that bed alongside
wildflowers.
Everyday I drove
the flowers thinking, “I’ll stop on my way home and dig them.” “Gee, I don’t want to get my good clothes
...” Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband
gave me a folding shovel(铁锹) one year to be used for that
purpose.
One day on my way home from work, I was
to see that the highway department had moved the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “Way to go, you
too long. You
it when you first saw them blooming this spring.”
A week ago we were shocked and saddened to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a terminal brain tumor(脑瘤晚期). She is 20 years older than my husband and
, because of age and distance, we haven’t been as
as we all would have liked.
I couldn’t help but see the
between the pretty blue flowers and the
between my husband’s sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some valuable
that will bloom every year for us.
And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I'll stop and
them to my wildflower garden
| 小题1: | | A．sweet | B．interesting | C．different | D．particular |
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| 小题2: | | A．fascinated | B．struck | C．caught | D．charm |
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| 小题4: | | A．plants | B．flowers | C．ones | D．wilds |
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| 小题5: | | A．open | B．main hall | C．front | D．kitchen |
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| 小题6: | | A．great | B．well | C．horrible | D．ugly |
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| 小题7: | | A．many | B．various | C．other | D．colorful |
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| 小题8: | | A．passed | B．past | C．pass | D．pasted |
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| 小题9: | | A．damaged | B．ready | C．dirty | D．smelly |
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| 小题10: | | A．ever | B．once | C．never | D．even |
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| 小题11: | | A．expressed | B．temporary | C．unfinished | D．permanent |
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| 小题12: | | A．annoying | B．saddened | C．interested | D．helpless |
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| 小题13: | | A．wasted | B．ignored | C．thought | D．waited |
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| 小题14: | | A．would have done | B．need have done | C．should have done | D．muse have done |
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| 小题15: | | A．unconsciously | B．fortunately | C．unfortunately | D．consciously |
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| 小题16: | | A．close | B．closely | C．closed | D．near |
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| 小题17: | | A．connection | B．difference | C．meaning | D．significance |
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| 小题18: | | A．friendship | B．relationship | C．support | D．relative |
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| 小题19: | | A．trees | B．memories | C．species | D．roses |
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| 小题20: | | A．dig | B．rescue | C．transmit | D．transplant |
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