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. 小题1: A．shouted B．shot C．aimed D．pointed 小题2: A．cruel B．greedy C．pleasant D．disciplined 小题3: A．museum B．park C．playground D．forest 小题4: A．features B．theories C．characters D．instructions 小题5: A．class B．college C．school D．university 小题6: A．what B．when C．how D．why 小题7: A．image B．product C．generation D．species 小题8: A．cheap B．easy C．expensive D．rough 小题9: A．paint B．plant C．uproot D．establish 小题10: A．starving B．beating C．watering D．feeding 小题11: A．asked B．told C．informed D．demanded 小题12: A．approval B．attention C．pain D．communication 小题13: A．weeks B．months C．years D．days 小题14: A．resulted B．produced C．believed D．spent 小题15: A．treated B．tended C．supported D．attended 小题16: A．number B．couple C．row D．period 小题17: A．trembling B．dying C．strong D．intelligent 小题18: A．while B．though C．as D．and 小题19: A．them B．that C．it D．this 小题20: A．trunks B．roots C．branches D．Leaves