When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor，a doctor named Gibbs. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was   1   trees. His house sat on ten acres(英亩), and his life’s goal was to make it a   2  .
The good doctor had some interesting   3   concerning planting trees. He never  4  his new trees. Once I asked why. “Watering plants will   5  them.” He said, “If you water them, each younger generation will grow   6 . So you have to make things  7   for them.”
He talked about how watering trees 8  shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow  9  roots in search of water. He’d planted an oak and,   10  watering it every morning, he’d   11   it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s   12  .
Dr. Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I returned and walked by his  13  and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re incredibly   14  now.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two   15 . I stand over them and pray for them.   16  I pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my   17.
I know my children are going to encounter hardship. Life is tough, whether we want it to be or not. Too many times we pray for   18  , but that’s a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for   19  that reach deep into the earth  20  they won’t be swept apart when the rains fall and the winds blow.

A．planting B．examining C．watching D．cutting

A．hospital B．forest C．park D．garden

A．instructions B．experiences C．theories D．experiments

A．covered B．shook C．watered D．pulled

A．strengthen B．enlarge C．drown D．spoil

A．taller and taller B．faster and faster C．smaller and smaller D．weaker and weaker

A．rough B．easy C．smooth D．pleasant

A．set aside B．made for C．put away D．break down

A．countless B．numerous C．deep D．limited

A．thanks to B．along with C．apart from D．instead of

A．protect B．fasten C．appreciate D．beat

A．patience B．growth C．attention D．movement

A．laboratory B．house C．office D．clinic

A．dead B．broken C．weak D．strong

A．trees B．sons C．works D．houses

A．Mostly B．Occasionally C．Scarcely D．Loudly

A．mind B．decision C．direction D．prayer

A．gifts B．reunion C．ease D．freedom

A．branches B．leaves C．tops D．roots

A．so that B．even though C．now that D．in case