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.”
1. A．wild B．crazy C．large D．nice
2. A．lost B．felt C．made D．took
3. A．gardening B．problems C．plants D．solution
4. A．time B．request C．permission D．point
5. A．Even so B．So C．As though D．Even if
6. A．where B．as C．why D．whether
7. A．after B．of C．at D．in
8. A．desert B．trouble C．garden D．waste
9. A．recognize B．observe C．know D．see
10. A．much B．enough C．something D．nothing
11. A．interested B．excited C．fit D．demanding
12. A．fought B．ruled C．rooted D．cut
13. A．worry B．shock C．astonish D．disappoint
14. A．life B．dreams C．house D．hands
15. A．thought B．expected C．ordered D．supposed
16. A．Ruin B．Develop C．Grow D．Sell
17. A．watching B．attending C．watering D．noticing
18. A．comments B．difference C．sense D．demands
19. A．time B．freedom C．sunlight D．space
20. A．important B．useless C．inconvenient D．previous
----Now that I’ve finished my exams, I’m going to relax and go to a movie tonight.
---- ______ I’ve still got two finals to take.
A．Good luck to you. B．Lucky you!
C．So far, so good! D．Mind your own business!
According to the report, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and two people were injured when a bomb ______ to a car exploded in its capital city.
A．attaching B．attached C．to be attached D．having attached
Growing up ______ Micheal Jordan was in his prime, Beijing native Wu You knew what he wanted to do
A．since B．when C．until D．before
The Internet gives people the chance to have the information they need ______ to them quickly and cheaply.
A．deliver B．delivering C．delivered D．to deliver
The school board listened quietly as Jack read the demands that his classmates ______ forward.
A．be putting B．had put C．were put D．have put
