In the 1950s, a family that owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan kept a bull chained to an elm(榆树)。The bull paced 1______ the tree, dragging the heavy iron chain, which led to a groove(槽) in the bark(树皮). The groove 2_________(deep) over the years. Though for whatever reason, it did not kill the tree. 3_______ some years, the family took their bull away. They cut the chain, leaving the loop around the tree and one link 4_________(hang) down. Then one year, agricultural catastrophe stuck Michigan in 5______ form of Dutch elm disease. All the elms lining the road leading to the farm became infected 6______ died. Everyone thought that the old elm would be the next. The farm owner considered 7_______(go) the safe thing: pulling it out and chopping it up into firewood before it died. 8__________(amazing), the tree did not die. Nobody could understand 9_______ it was still the only elm standing in the country. It is said that 10_____ doesn`t kill you will make you become stronger. Or, as a plant pathologist(病理学家) put it, “ Life breaks us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest at the broken palces.”
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答案
1. around 2. was deepened 3.After 4. hanging 5. and 6.the 7.going 8. Amazingly 9. why 10. what
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bark(树皮). The groove 2_________(deep) over the years. Though for whatever reason, it did not kill the
tree.
3_______ some years, the family took their bull away. They cut the chain, leaving the loop around
the tree and one link 4_________(hang) down.
Then one year, agricultural catastrophe stuck Michigan in 5______ form of Dutch elm disease. All
the elms lining the road leading to the farm became infected 6______ died. Everyone thought that the old
elm would be the next. The farm owner considered 7_______(go) the safe thing: pulling it out and
chopping it up into firewood before it died.
8__________(amazing), the tree did not die. Nobody could understand 9_______ it was still the
only elm standing in the country. It is said that 10_____ doesn`t kill you will make you become stronger.
Or, as a plant pathologist(病理学家) put it, “ Life breaks us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest
at the broken palces.”
答案
2. was deepened
3.After
4. hanging
5. and
6.the
7.going
8. Amazingly
9. why
10. what