Question

用方框中所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，使短文完整正確。

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(寵壞) 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(搖晃)  and chatter(沙沙響)  in the wind.

Answer 1

l. planting   2. watered   3. and   4. deep   5. his   6. tree's   7. time   8. were   9. years  10. later