The professor’s house，big and untidy，stood alone at one end of a huge garden.The place was totally uncared for，quite 1 and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I 2
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 3 me right on all the 4
that had puzzled me. I was on the 5 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.“ 6 ，I love this garden，though. It’s 7 I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”
“It could be made lovely. It 8 a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t 9 that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child，and I had 10 of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby，you see. Unfortunately，he wasn’t 11 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 12 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 13 it had. It used to 14
me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was 15 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... ”
“ 16 ?” he said.“No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like 17 it grow 18 its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has 19 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 20 ，” he laughed.“You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”
1. A. wild B. crazy C. large D. nice
2. A. lost B. felt C. took D. made
3. A. let B. put C. taught D. explained
4. A. gardening B. plants C. problems D. solution
5. A. time B. point C. permission D. request
6. A. Even if B. So C. As though D. Even so
7. A. as B. where C. why D. whether
8. A. seems B. is C. proves D. sounds
9. A. recognize B. sense C. see D. know
10. A. fond B. short C. free D. enough
11. A. interested B. fit C. content D. demanding
12. A. fought against B. cleared up C. rooted out D. cut down
13. A. effect B. reason C. cause D. result
14. A. astonish B. shock C. worry D. disappoint
15. A. thought B. supposed C. ordered D. expected
16. A. Sell B. Develop C. Grow D. Ruin
17. A. noticing B. attending C. watering D. watching
18. A. on B. in C. with D. of
19. A. freedom B. time C. sunlight D. space
20. A. life B. pleasure C. job D. research
开心蛙口算题卡系列答案科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh(法老）treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off.
Shades of that spirit spread over today's conversations. Once a friend arid I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked light heartedly out the door ，picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, “Oh boy, bad
day for a picnic. The weatherman says it’s going to rain. ,，I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report, for his smile.
Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Grey hound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile，“Oh that bus left five minutes ago. ” Dreams of head-cutting!
It’s not the news that makes someone angry. It’s the unsympathetic attitude with which it’s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning profes?sionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn’t get the job takes on a sym?pathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feel?ing of the receiver.
Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you7 re tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn’t ready yet? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.
Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, 1 would have ap?preciated his warming . Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, “Oh, that’s all right I'll catch the next one. ” Big winners, when they bear bad news，deliver bombs with the emotion the hombarded(被轰炸的）person is sure to have.
67. In Paragraph l ，the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to _______
A. make a comparison B introduce a topic
C. describe a scene D. offer an argument
68. In the writer’s opinion, his neighbor was_______.
A. friendly B. warm-hearted C not considerate D. not helpful
69. From “Dreams of head-cutting！"(Paragraph 3) ,we learn that the writer_______.
A was mad at the sales agent
B. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh
C. wished that the sales agent would have had dreams
D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent’s head that night.
70. What is the main idea of the text?
A Delivering bad news properly is important in communication.
B. Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.
C. Receiving bad news requires great courage.
D. Learning ancient traditions can be useful.
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