语言朋友(77)dn't look like any other doctor I've ever known.He never__1__ at us for playing in his yard.I remembered him as a kind and__2__ 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 __3__.
He had some interesting __4__ concerning planting.He belonged to the 揘o pains, no gains?s__5__ of plant growing.He never watered his__6__ trees.Once I asked why, he said, 揥atering pliants will spoil them, and if you water them, each successive tree__7__will grow weaker and weaker.So you have to make things __8__ for them and weed out the weak ones.” So he never watered his trees.He would __9__a pine, and instead of__10__it every morning, he beat it with a rolled璾p newspaper.I a__11__ him why he did so, and he said it was to get the tree's __12__.
I planted a couple of trees a few __13__ ago.I carried water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them and prayed over them.Two years of careful tending has __14__ in trees that expect to be __15__ to hand and foot.Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble their branches.
Dr.Gibbs passed away a __16__of years after I left home.Now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees.They're __17__now, big and healthy.
Funny things about Dr.Gibbs' trees.Hardship and difficulty seemed to__18__ them while comfort and ease never could.
Life is tough, whether we want__19__ 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__20__ that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept away
解题导语：本文中作者用邻居种树的道理来说明：我们要像树一样学习忍受并克服艰难困苦而不是等着别人浇水只有这样才能茁壮地成长。 根a kind...person”可知他是一个友善的老人我们在他的院子里玩耍他也不会对我们吼叫。 A
2．A.cruel
B．greedy
C．pleasant
D．disciplined
解析: 选pleasant与kind一起形容老人的性格。 C
3．A.museum
B．park
C．playground
D．forest
解析: 根据上文“When Dr. Gibbs didn't work, 老人喜欢种树可推出选D。 D
4．A.features
B．theories
句意：关于种树他自己有一套有趣的理论。 B
5．A.class
B．college
C．school
D．university
解析: 句意：信奉 “不劳无获”的理论。school“学术流派”这里应理解为“理论”的意思。 C
6．A.tall
B．pine
C．green
D．new
解析:句意：他从不给新栽的树浇水。 D
7．A.image
B．product
C．generation
D．species
解析: 句意：如果浇水树的继承者就会越来越弱不经风。generation“一代”。 C
8．A.cheap
B．easy
C．expensive
D．rough 根据老人的理论可知此处指必须要让树木生活得艰难些。 D
9．A.paint
B．plant
C．uproot
D．establish
解析: 句意：他会种一棵松树但他不会每天给它浇水反而用卷成筒的报纸敲打它。 B
10．A.starving
B．beating
C．watering
D．feeding
解析: 参见第9题解析。 C
11．A.asked
B．told
C．informed
D．demanded
解析: 根据后面老人的回答可知此处指“我”问他为什么要这么做。 A
12．A.approval
B．attention
C．pain
D．communication
解析: 此处选attention表示让树“注意”即每日让松树的生长环境变得艰苦使它努力成长。 B
13．A.weeks
B．months
C．years
D．days
解析: 根据后文出现的“summer”可知选years最合适。 C
14．A.resulted
B．produced
C．believed
D．spent
解析:句意：两年的细心照顾导致这些树从头到脚都要人照顾。 A
15．A.treated
B．tended
C．supported
D．attended
解析: 参见第14题解析。 D
16．A.number
B．couple
C．row
D．period
解析: a couple of “两双”。 B
17．A.trembling
B．dying选strong与下文的“big and healthy”相应。 C
18．A.benefit
B．destroy
C．spoil
D．harm
解析: 句意：艰难困苦使它们受益而轻松舒适并不能给予这些。benefit“使……受益”。 A
19．A.them
B．that
C．it
D．this
解析: 选it指代“life is tough”。句意：生活是艰苦的 C
20．A.trunks
B．roots
C．branches
D．Leaves
解析: 根据下文“so when the rains fall and the winds blow, 可知选root“根”。只有根深扎在地下才不会被狂风暴雨刮走。 B
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When prices are low, people will buy more.And when prices are high, they will buy21.________(little)．Every shopkeeper knows this.According to the economic point of view, ________supply and demand.23.________ we all know, people buy fewer goods as the price goes 24.________.On the contrary, a decrease in price causes 25.________increase in demand.
Business firms look for the perfect price at 26.________ the largest profit can 27.________ (make)．In doing so, ________ (have) an accurate estimation of the people's demand and their 29.________ (purchase) power so that they can produce the exact amount of goods and price their goods properly.Otherwise there 30.________ (be) no profit for them to make.
解题导语：商品的价格高了人们就买得少；反之则买得多。商家只有通过精确的解析：由文意及前面的“more”可知填less。答案：less解析：由前面的“changes in the prices of goods” 可知填in。答案：in解析：固定搭配众所周知”。答案：As解析：由文意可知是“价格上涨人们就会买得更少”。go up“上涨”。答案：up解析：由前面的“a decrease”可知应填an。答案：an解析：此处为“介词＋关系代词答案：which27．解析：固定搭配获利”。此处profit作主语故要用被动语态。答案：be made解析：动词不定式作目的状语。答案：to have解析：固定搭配购买力”。答案：purchasing解析：there be句型的一般将来时。答案：will be