2 . Early last summer, I bought some yam(山药)roots for food but days later, a tuber (块茎)left was sprouting(发芽). Thinking it was a waste of money to throw it away, I _____ the tuber into a flower pot hoping that it might take root and ______ something that could be put on the dinner table.
In the following months, I ____ the tuber regularly. Thankfully, the _____ yam grew well. Soon it was autumn, and I decided to ______ .
I pulled out the leaves of the yam and began to dig with my fingers carefully for I knew the yam could ______easily. Suddenly my fingers __ the yam root. When almost no __ was left, I tried to pull the root but failed.
In ______ , I turned the pot over. Half of the yam root had grown through one of the three holes ______
The whole tuber, _____ two parts, one in and one out of the pot, was in the _____ of a handwritten L. Unlike ordinary yam roots, the part outside the pot was not round—it was _____ , looking like a hand of an old farmer who works hard to make a ______ . The very end of the part outside the pot was _____ . Obviously, the skin must have been rubbed off during its __ with the heavy pot. The very tip of the unusual part seemed to be bleeding.
The sight filled me with ______ . Then and there my opinion of the plant _____ . I came to understand that the tuber, though ______ wounded, had struggled hard. Such was a yam, an ordinary-looking plant with ________characteristics.
1. A.cooked | B.ruined | C.buried | D.cut |
2. A.remove | B.produce | C.replace | D.protect |
3. A.bought | B.threw | C.watered | D.ate |
4. A.abandoned | B.forgotten | C.injured | D.potted |
5. A.perform | B.attempt | C.harvest | D.withdraw |
6. A.stand | B.grow | C.fall | D.break |
7. A.touched | B.pulled | C.crashed | D.killed |
8. A.earth | B.root | C.air | D.plant |
9. A.excitement | B.shame | C.puzzlement | D.terror |
10. A.in the sky | B.on the top | C.in the bottom | D.under the ground |
11. A.picking out | B.consisting of | C.giving away | D.taking down |
12. A.color | B.form | C.voice | D.size |
13. A.flat | B.long | C.rough | D.weak |
14. A.choice | B.contribution | C.wish | D.living |
15. A.skinless | B.endless | C.useless | D.stainless |
16. A.negotiation | B.struggle | C.cooperation | D.relationship |
17. A.victory | B.regret | C.envy | D.respect |
18. A.strengthened | B.changed | C.disappeared | D.remained |
19. A.barely | B.temporarily | C.purposefully | D.seriously |
20. A.tough | B.steady | C.common | D.gentle |