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The exact cause of the crime cannot be remembered as it happened a long time ago, but the punishment is still   41   and vivid: Dig up the fig tree（无花果）in the backyard and plant it at Mumsy’s place in the country. As I often did when sentenced to hard labor in the garden, I suspected this was my parents’ way of  42   me to do their dirty work. 

It was a Sunday morning. With some tools, I went at the tree, cutting it branch by branch and limb by limb,   43  all that remained of the once-proud specimen（标本，样本）was a sorry-looking stump of a thing.

 “What did that   44   ever do to you?” my father said, “You should have left some taproot (主根) of it, at least. Go and load up the truck.” On any other day before, during the  45  to Mumsy’s, we would have pleasantly  46  school as usual, but I fenced myself off that time. 

Then, at Mumsy’s, instead of sitting back to watch me work, he  47  me. As my father and I took turns to work, I could feel that my anger  48  , making room for the simple satisfaction of working at my father’s side  49  a common goal. 

 “ Well,” my father said when we  50  , “ we’ve done what we can do.” “Do you think there’s any  51  that it can grow up?” I asked. “It’s rich dirt. They say you can  52  toenails（指*）in it and grow little kids.” My father answered. I never tried the toenail trick, but I did  53  as it settled in, took root, and began to prosper. I was amazed and  54  when bowls of figs began to fill the fridge. 

In a perfectly  55  world, I don’t deserve the reward. I had  56  the tree for no good reasons. What right did I have to the fruit? Years later, I put this  57  to my father. Watching him slide a bowl of figs from the fridge one morning, I felt a sudden stab of shame for my boyhood  58  . My father took a fig from the  59  and let me think of the fruit as forgiveness. “You,” he said, “  60  some of that.” 

41.A. certain                      B. strange                   C. common                 D. clear

42.A. inviting                     B. letting                       C. getting                   D. helping

43.A. since                         B. when                      C. until                       D. after

44.A. truck                        B. tool                        C. tree                        D. taproot

45.A. rest                                   B. flight                      C. walk                       D. ride

46.A. thought over               B. talked about             C. broke into               D. gave up

47.A. forgave                     B. tricked                    C. entertained              D. joined

48.A. disappeared               B. concentrated           C. approached             D. exploded

49.A. through                     B. against                    C. toward                   D. off

50.A. argued                      B. continued                C. started                    D. finished

51.A. relationship                B. value                      C. advantage               D. chance

52.A. dig                            B. plant                       C. remove                   D. observe

53.A. understand                       B. determine                C. watch                     D. feel

54.A. confused                   B. happy                     C. regretful                 D. disappointed

55.A. fair                           B. strange                   C. usual                     D. easy

56.A. forgotten                   B. cut                         C. helped                    D. guarded

57.A. task                           B. answer                    C. question                   D. action

58.A. suffering                    B. misfortune                   C. sorrow                   D. rudeness

59.A. bowl                         B. desk                       C. kitchen                  D. fridge

60.A. deserve                       B. receive                   C. protect                            D. suspect

【回答】

  41-45 DCCCD  46-50 BDACD       51-55 DBCBA      56-60 BCDAA

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