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填空（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分） 阅读下面短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式，并将序号及相应答案写在答题纸上。
When I was a child, my mother had the most beautiful rose bushes in the yard. Every May they bloomed (开花) with other colorful flowers. One Summer,①, with no one tending them, weds (杂草) stole into the bushes.
One evening, Dad and I went outside to play catch. As I threw the ball to him, it passed him and landed in the overgrown corner of the yard. Dad found the ball and threw it②to me, then silently walked to the garage and returned with a lawn mower (割草机). He pulled and pushed
Until he had consumed every square inch,leaving no plant③than one inch.I watched inhorror as he placed the machine back.Didn’t he know just ④hearthroker when she discovered her flowers of spring bad been destroyed?
But Dad knew something that I did⑤.The following April,Mom walked toward her favorite corner of the yard.She bent over the area where the roses⑥(cut) months
Before “Veronica,look at these bushes!”Mom shouted.I thought she was joking.Surely there was nothing to look at.Puzzled,I looked down and saw hundreds of tiny red and green shoots⑦(reach) up to kiss the sun.
That year the rose bushes were the best in memory.A few years ago I plantedmyown roses.I ,too,am learningthe⑧of nature.There is a time for growing,a time for bloomingand a time for harvesting.There is even a time formowing down the weeds and starting overagain. ⑨it is withpeople,who,⑩roses,are firmly rooted in soil.We must grow,bloom and sometimesstart over again when our lives have become caught up inwees.
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