1 . My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of ________. Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some ________ to the area.
Last summer, I found a tiny little plant in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said she didn’t either.
We decided to let it ________ growing until we could find out what it was.
Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the ________ plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided to ________ the weeds (杂草) around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something ________.The sunflower had not ________ where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the ________.
That’s when I ________ that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability of doing the same thing. If we ________ ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we ________ to go and get what we need for growth.
We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ________ to achieve our goals. Like the sunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had ________ in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be ________ of who and what we are, and then the environment will begin to ________ us. We will find a way to go under or around any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.
1. A.flower | B.insects | C.vegetables | D.rocks |
2. A.water | B.fertilizer | C.color | D.shape |
3. A.stop | B.continue | C.improve | D.escape |
4. A.weak | B.strange | C.lonely | D.pretty |
5. A.collect | B.tend | C.remove | D.watch |
6. A.unusual | B.wonderful | C.terrible | D.valuable |
7. A.passed | B.started | C.left | D.died |
8. 9. A.hoped | B.realized | C.doubted | D.regretted |
10. A.fill in | B.put in | C.worry about | D.believe in |
11. A.forget | B.hate | C.aim | D.wait |
12. A.wish | B.plan | C.ability | D.idea |
13. A.faith | B.energy | C.virtue | D.courage |
14. A.aware | B.afraid | C.proud | D.tired |
15. A.forgive | B.support | C.upset | D.affect |