阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41─60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Father, I don’t like to go to school,” said Harry Williams one morning. “I wish you would let me stay at home. Charles Parker’s father doesn’t make him go to school.”
Mr Williams
36 his little boy by the hand, and said
37 to him, “Come, my son. I want to show you
38 in the garden.”
Harry walked into the garden with his
39 , who led him along until they came to a bed in which peas(豌豆) were growing. Not a weed(杂草) was to be
40 about their roots.
“See how beautifully these peas are
41, my son,” said Mr. Williams. “How clean and healthy the vines(藤) look. We shall have a good
42 . Now let me show you the vines in Mr. Parker’s garden.”
Mr. Williams then
43 Harry to look at Mr. Parker’s pea vines.
After a few moments, Mr. Williams asked, “Well, my son, what do you
44 Mr. Parker’s pea vines?”
“Oh, Father!” replied the little boy. “I never saw such
45 looking peas in my life! The weeds are nearly as
46 as the peas themselves. There won’t be half a crop!”
“
47 are they so much worse than ours, Harry?”
“Because they have been left to grow as they
48 . I suppose Mr. Parker just planted them, and never took any care of them
49 ”
“ Yes. A garden will soon be overrun with weeds
50 it is not taken good care of,” Mr. Williams
51 , “and so it is with the human garden. Children’s minds are like garden beds. They must be
52 cared for. I send you to school in order that the garden of your
53 may have good seeds(种子) and
54 plentifully. Now which would you
55 , to stay at home or go to school?”
“I would rather go to school,” said Harry.
| 小题1: | | A．grabbed | B．pulled | C．punished | D．took |
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| 小题2: | | A．loudly | B．secretly | C．kindly | D．politely |
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| 小题3: | | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题4: | | A．mother | B．brother | C．sister | D．father |
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| 小题5: | | A．made | B．changed | C．seen | D．planted |
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| 小题6: | | A．growing | B．moving | C．shaking | D．dancing |
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| 小题7: | | A．result | B．harvest | C．match | D．present |
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| 小题8: | | A．forced | B．ordered | C．followed | D．led |
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| 小题9: | | A．think of | B．look at | C．hear of | D．deal with |
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| 小题10: | | A．ugly | B．fine | C．dirty | D．poor |
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| 小题11: | | A．deep | B．long | C．high | D．wide |
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| 小题12: | | A．When | B．Why | C．Where | D．How |
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| 小题13: | | A．pleased | B．stayed | C．left | D．belonged |
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| 小题14: | | A．ahead | B．outside | C．forward | D．afterward |
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| 小题16: | | A．required | B．answered | C．explained | D．announced |
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| 小题17: | | A．carefully | B．correctly | C．gently | D．slightly |
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| 小题18: | | A．school | B．mind | C．family | D．dream |
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| 小题19: | | A．produce | B．develop | C．decrease | D．drop |
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| 小题20: | | A．find | B．support | C．know | D．prefer |
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