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Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum (总和) of its parts?   26  But it doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.

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Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers (肥料).   28  However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years. 

 Recall (回忆) your childhood memories

Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma’s rose garden and Dad’s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that’s not what’s important.  29  —how being in those gardens made us feel. If you’d like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth.   30   then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.

A．Know why you garden.

B．Find a good place for your own garden.

C．It’s our experience of the garden that matters.

D．It’s delightful to see so many beautiful flowers.

E．Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants.

F．You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too.

G．For each of those gardens, writer down the strongest memory you have.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that   33   dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove back . After a long and careful   34  , Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving cautiously away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with   35   . It just started licking (舔) Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper. The ad had a   36   number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers   37    the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had   38   their dog.

Jeff had   39   in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched   40   for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who   41   enough to go to that kind of   42  ,”says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue   43  .

“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as   44   to it as I am to my dog,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be   45   to go that extra mile.”

31. A．read                              B．forgot                    C．thought                  D．heard

32. A．tried                             B．agreed                    C．promised                                           D．regretted

33. A．injured                         B．stolen                     C．lost                                           D．rescued

34. A．preparation                 B．explanation           C．test                                           D．search

35. A．surprise                       B．joy                         C．hesitation                                           D．anxiety

36. A．house                           B．phone                    C．street                      D．car

37. A．called                           B．copied                   C．counted                                           D．remembered

38. A．fed                               B．adopted                 C．found                     D．cured

39. A．hunted                         B．skied                      C．lived                                           D．worked

40. A．on purpose                  B．on time                  C．in turn                   D．in vain

41. A．cares                            B．sees                        C．suffers                   D．learns

42. A．place                            B．trouble                   C．waste                                           D．extreme

43. A．service                         B．plan                       C．effort                     D．team

44. A．equal                            B．allergic                  C．grateful                  D．close

45. A．suitable                        B．proud                     C．wise                                           D．willing