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 11__ at us for playing in his yard. I remembered him as a kind and _12_ 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 _ 13_ . He had some interesting _ 14 _ concerning planting. He belonged to the “No pains, no gains” __15 of plant growing. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked _16__, he said, “Watering plants will spoil them, and if you water them, each successive tree_ 17_ will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things 18__for them and weed out the weak ones.” So he never watered his trees. He would _19__a pine, and instead of _20__it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I __21__ him why he did so, and he said it was to get the tree’s _22__. I planted a couple of trees a few _23__ ago. I carried water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them and prayed over them. Two years of careful tending has _24__ in trees that expect to be _25__ to hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble their branches. Dr. Gibbs passed away a _26__of years after I left home. Now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees. They’re _27__ now, big and healthy. Funny things about Dr. Gibbs’ trees. Hardship and difficulty seemed to benefit them _28__ comfort and ease never could. Life is tough, whether we want 29_ 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 30_ 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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小题1:动词辨析。A. shout吼叫 ；B. shot射击；C. aim瞄准；D. point。指着。由文章第一段末a kind and _37_ person,可知，他是一个友善的老人，故不会对我们吼叫，
小题2:形容词辨析。A. cruel 残酷的；B. greedy 贪婪的；C. pleasant 高兴的；D. disciplined有纪律的。and连接两个并列的成分：kind 友善的，故用pleasant，令人高兴的，构成并列。
小题3:名词辨析。A. museum博物馆；B. park 公园；停车场；C. playground 操场；D. forest森林。他的目标就是让种的树成为：森林。
小题4:名词辨析。A. feature 特点；B. theory理论；C. character特征；D. instruction说明。由后一句：He belonged to the “No pains, no gains” ······他属于“不劳不获”······这是他的理论。
小题5:名词辨析。A. class班；B. college大学，学院；C. school学校；D. university综合性大学。“No pains, no gains”，“不劳不获”这是学校老师所教的理论。
小题6:代词辨析。A. what什么；B. when 什么时间； C. how怎么样；D. why为什么。他种树，从不浇水，我问为什么。同时下文中：I __21_ him why he did so,也可直接得出。
小题7:名词辨析。 A. image肖像；B. product 产品；C. generation后代；D. species物种。如果浇水，树的继承者就会越来越来弱不经风。树的下一代：tree generation
小题8:形容词辨析。A. Cheap便宜的； B. Easy容易的；C. Expensive昂贵的；D. rough艰难的。因此，你必须要让他们生活得困难些，同时下文中：Life is tough, 也可以直接得出。生活也是一样。
小题9:动词辨析。A. paint涂色；B. plant种植；C.uproot 连根拔起；D. establish建立。他不但不给树浇水，反而还去拔树。
小题10:动名词的使用。作介词of的宾语。不是给树浇水，上文和下文中都多次提到：watered his trees.
小题11:动词辨析。A. Ask问；B. told 告诉；C. Inform通知；D. demand要求，命令。我问他为什么这样做。同时上文中也有提示：Once I asked _41__,可直接得出。
小题12:名词辨析。 A. approval同意；B. attention 注意；C. pain 痛苦；D. communication交流。拔树当然是要让树‘注意’。
小题13:名词辨析。A. week周；B. month月；C. year年；D. day天。根据下文中：Two years of careful tending has _24__ ······可直接得出。
小题14:动词辨析。A. resulted in导致；B. produce生产；C. believe in 信赖；D spend花费。两年的细心照顾导致树从头到脚都要照顾。
小题15:动词短语辨析。A. treat对待；B. tend照顾；C. support支持； D. attend出席。两年的细心照顾导致树从头到脚都要照顾。
小题16:固定短语短语的使用。A.a number of许多；a couple of 一两（双）；a row of 一排；a period of 一段时间。我离开一两年，Dr. Gibbs死了。
小题17:形容词辨析。A. trembling 颤动的；B. dying 将死的；C. strong强壮的；D. intelligent 聪明的。_52__ now, big and healthy. and连接并列的词，故用strong。
小题18:连词辨析。A. while而；B. though虽然；C. as 因为；D. and 和。Hardship and difficulty seemed to benefit them _53__comfort and ease never could。Hardship and difficulty 和comfort and ease 构成对比，故用 while。
小题19:代词的使用。A. them他们；B. that那；C. it 它；D. this这。Life is tough, whether we want _54__ to be or not. 生活是艰苦的，不管我们想它是还是不是。补全这句：whether we want Life to be or not.故用表特指,用it。
小题20:名词辨析。A. trunk干；B. root 根；C. branch枝；D. leave叶。to pray for _30__ that reach deep into the earth, 到地下面，只有根才是这样生长的。
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