Theprofessor’shouse，biganduntidy，stoodaloneatoneendofah...

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The professor’s house，big and untidy，stood alone at one end of a huge place was totally uncared for，quite   21   and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I  22 

my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.

I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he   23   me right on all the   24 

that had puzzled me. I was on the   25   of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said，“You’re very fond of gardening，I see.”

“No，I’m not，” he said.“  26  ，I love this garden，though. It’s   27   I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”

“It could be made lovely. It   28   a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t   29   that way?” said I.

“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child，and I had   30   of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby，you see. Unfortunately，he wasn’t   31   enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade（叶片） of grass was an enemy to be   32   by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”

“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even！”

“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the   33   it had. It used to   34 

me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was   35   to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”

“And now it’s yours，you’re just letting it go to... ”

“  36  ?” he said.“No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like  37   it grow  38   its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has  39  at last, and so have I.”

“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you，isn’t it?”

“That’s part of my  40  ，” he laughed.“You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”

21. A. wild             B. crazy                C. large                D. nice

22. A. lost         B. felt             C. took             D. made

23. A. let          B. put              C. taught               D. explained

24. A. gardening        B. plants           C. problems             D. solution

25. A. time             B. point                C. permission       D. request

26. A. Even if      B. So               C. As though            D. Even so

27. A. as           B. where            C. why              D. whether

28. A. seems            B. is               C. proves           D. sounds

29. A. recognize        B. sense                C. see              D. know

30. A. fond             B. short                C. free                 D. enough

31. A. interested       B. fit              C. content          D. demanding

32. A. fought against   B. cleared up           C. rooted out           D. cut down

33. A. effect           B. reason           C. cause                D. result

34. A. astonish         B. shock            C. worry            D. disappoint

35. A. thought      B. supposed             C. ordered          D. expected

36. A. Sell         B. Develop          C. Grow                 D. Ruin

37. A. noticing         B. attending            C. watering             D. watching

38. A. on           B. in               C. with                 D. of

39. A. freedom      B. time                 C. sunlight             D. space

40. A. life             B. pleasure             C. job              D. research

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ADBCB   DAACD   BCACB    DDBAB

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