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When my daughter Kelsey was a child, she loved to join me in the garden. To
1 chaos(混乱)in my
own garden beds, I provided her with a space of her own, so Kelsey's Corner was born. There she was
2 to dig and plant as she wished. Over time, that small piece of land grew into a favorite place in the
3 .
As she approached high school, Kelsey took her
4 off the garden. I didn't
5 to accept this change.
It seemed acceptable that something as boring as working in the dirt gave way to the mystery of a(n)
6
social life, so I began to take care of the space. Even so, I knew it always would be Kelsey's Corner.
Now my daughter is eighteen and is in the
7 weeks of her high school career. Our mailbox is filled
with college admission materials,
8 me that the world has come for this young lady and that she will
soon answer its
9 . Kelsey is looking forward to her wonderful college life
10 her mother and I are
anxious about the coming life
11 our daughter around.
Kelsey's Corner seems extremely deserted in this early spring
12 Kelsey's leaving. One morning,
when I
13 past Kelsey's Corner, I noticed some green seedlings had
14 at the foot of some dead
stalks(秆).
It's
15 that life is a cycle. Kelsey's leaving is
16 one point on the cycle. Now the life wheel will roll
with Kelsey as she
17 into her adult life.
Let her live as she will and let her
18 when she can, and whether she comes alone or in
19 , she
will be welcome home. I'll take care of Kelsey's Corner faithfully. It will also cycle annually, rolling on
towards a
20 stage of our lives, one that promises a rich harvest.
( )1.A. defend ( )2.A. willing ( )3.A. garden ( )4.A. emotion ( )5.A. wonder ( )6.A. attractive ( )7.A. latest ( )8.A. reminding ( )9.A. letter ( )10.A. since ( )11.A. beyond ( )12.A. in spite of ( )13.A. imagined ( )14.A. existed ( )15.A. doubtful ( )16.A. only ( )17.A. looks ( )18.A. return ( )19.A. time ( )20.A. strange |
B. avoid B. sorry B. family B. awareness B. support B. peaceful B. last B. introducing B. cry B. while B. except B. in case of B. wandered B. planted B. informal B. rarely B. moves B. recover B. person B. proper |
C. cover C. free C. corner C. mind C. realize C. complex C. beginning C. promising C. notice C. because C. besides C. because of C. performed C. appeared C. probable C. always C. breaks C. compete C. need C. different |
D. tolerate D. sure D. area D. expectation D. refuse D. changeable D. former D. ordering D. call D. unless D. without D. instead of. D. examined D. exposed D. true D. seldom D. pulls D. join D. company D. common |