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| be, vear, tree, later, deep, water, Dlant, time, he, and |
I had an old neighbor named Gibbs. He liked
l trees. His house has a large yard and he wanted to make it a forest.
The old man believed in "No pains, no gains. " He never
2 _his new trees. Once I asked why.He said
that watering plants spoiled(宠坏) them,
3 that each tree would grow weaker and weaker.He talked
about how trees that weren't watered had to grow
4 _ roots to find water.So he neverwatered
5 trees.
He planted an oak, and instead of watering it every morning, he'd beat it with a newspaper. I asked
him why he did that, and he said it was to get the
6 attention.
He has planted trees for twenty-five years. Every
7 I walked by his house and looked at the trees, I
could see that they
8 very big and strong.
I planted a couple of trees a few
9 _ ago. I watered them and took good care of them. Two years
_
10 I found that whenever a cold wind blew, they would tremble(摇晃) and chatter(沙沙响) in the wind.