阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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 ________ 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 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 ________ 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 ________ 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 ________, 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, then the environment will begin to ________ us. We will find a way to go under or ________ any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.
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| A.flowers |
B.rocks |
C.insects |
D.vegetables |
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| A.shape |
B.water |
C.fertilizer |
D.colour |
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| A.weed |
B.seed |
C.plant |
D.rock |
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| A.continue |
B.stop |
C.improve |
D.escape |
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| A.weak |
B.strange |
C.lonely |
D.pretty |
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| A.collect |
B.tend |
C.watch |
D.remove |
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| A.wonderful |
B.terrible |
C.unusual |
D.valuable |
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| A.started |
B.passed |
C.left |
D.died |
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| A.tree |
B.rock |
C.table |
D.wall |
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| A.air |
B.sun |
C.top |
D.house |
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| A.hoped |
B.doubted |
C.regretted |
D.realized |
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| A.way |
B.place |
C.course |
D.process |
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| A.fill in |
B.put in |
C.believe in |
D.worry about |
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| A.forget |
B.aim |
C.hate |
D.wait |
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| A.idea |
B.wish |
C.plan |
D.ability |
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| A.sunflower |
B.yard |
C.home |
D.summer |
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| A.energy |
B.virtue |
C.faith |
D.courage |
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| A.aware |
B.proud |
C.afraid |
D.tired |
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| A.forgive |
B.affect |
C.upset |
D.support |
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| A.around |
B.into |
C.through |
D.From |
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