been_so及long 独家焦点

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一、题文

It’s been so long I can’t remember the crime (罪行), but I’ll never forget the punishment: Dig up the fig tree in the backyard and plant it in our country field. As I often did when punished, I suspected this was my parents’ way of getting me to do their dirty work. I decided to fight back.Poor tree. It was a very hot morning and my anger was rising. With my tools, I went at the tree, destroying it branch by branch, until all that remained was a sorry-looking thing, which would have looked right at home in a fireplace.“Good job, son,” my father said. “What did that tree ever do to you?”“Nothing,” I said, my voice suggesting that if anyone was to blame for this, it wasn’t me. This tree—if it could still be called a tree—was certainly done for. I wasn’t proud of that; in fact, I was starting to feel rotten about it.“You left some root, at least,” my father said. “Go load up the truck.”I was certain that what we were up to now was meaningless to the tree—just Dad making sure that I completed my punishment. On any other day, the ride to the country would have seen dad and me talking happily, but today I stayed silent.Then, in our country field, my father made my anger lessen. Instead of sitting back to watch me work, he pitched in. It was a small gesture, but a critical one.Anger enjoys itself; it’s always looking for fuel on which to feed. But as my father and I worked together, I could feel it slipping away, making room for the simple satisfaction of working at my father’s side toward a common goal.Once the hole was deep enough, we set the root up in it and filled the earth in.“Well,” my father said when we were finished, “we’ve done what we can do.”“You think there’s any chance?” I asked.“It’s rich dirt. They say you can plant toenails (脚趾甲) in it and grow little kids.”I never tried the toenail trick, but I did watch as, year by year, the root settled in, grew up, and began to flower. Small bright-green leaves grew into bigger branches, which thickened and stretched to become more branches, long and leafy and heavy with fruit.1．What the writer did to the tree in the garden could be described as ______________.A.a way to let out his angerB.a way to obey his fatherC.helpfulD.efficient2．What did the writer and his father normally do on a ride to the country field?A.They chatted happily.B.They quarrelled.C.They stayed silent.D.They admired the scenery.3．What does the underlined phrase pitched in probably mean?A.lectured meB.helped meC.monitored meD.got angrier4．How did the story end up?A.Little kids grew out of the field.B.The soil was too poor to support the tree.C.The tree bore fruit.D.Transplanting the tree was a wasted effort.

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