Question

When my daughter was in primary school, she brought home four small twigs（嫩枝）one day. Her school gave these twigs to the students to plant. None of them looked very hardy, but with hope for the future, I planted them in our backyard. Over the years, because of an accident with the lawnmower（割草机）and poor soil, three of them died. Only one survived. It grew crooked（弯弯曲曲的）and very slowly. It never got very tall. In the end, it looked more like a fat bush than a tree. A few years ago, I noticed that it was starting to die. The lower branches were becoming bare（秃的）.Only the top third of the tree was still green. Last summer I did my best to save it by feeding it a lot of fertilizer（肥料), but it didn’t work.

Later one morning, I went out and looked at it again. I was wondering whether it would be better to just cut it down. It would make mowing the lawn easier. As I walked over to take a closer look at it, however, I noticed something moving within the leaves. It was a robin（知更鸟）patiently building a nest in the topmost branches. I smiled when I looked at it. I thought maybe this old tree was still useful. It might not be healthy or pretty, but it was still giving a bird a home. This tree made me know that all of our lives have purpose. It doesn’t matter if we are young and strong of old and sickly. Until our last breath, we have things to do, love to give, and joy to share.

We can help to make this world a better and more beautiful place.

1.What made the three trees die, according to the writer?

A.The grew out of small and hardly twig.

B.The daughter didn’t plant them correctly.

C.The soil around them was not rich.

D.There was no sunlight in the backyard.

2.What did the only remaining tree look like a few years ago?

A.It was straight and tall.

B.It grew fat very quickly.

C.It looked like a bird's nest.

D.There were not many leaves on it.

3.The underlined word “topmost” in Paragraph 2 mean __________ in Chinese.

A.顶端的 B.侧面的 C.最多的 D.高级的

4.What might the writer do with the tree later?

A.He might cut it down.

B.He might leave it as it is.

C.He might build more nests on it.

D.He might take away some of its leaves.

5.In the story, the writer aims to tell us that_____.

A.we should take care of animals and plants

B.we are living in a beautiful world

C.every living thing has its own purpose

D.we should work hard until our last breath

Answer 1