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   Do you long to have garden-fresh vegetables on your plate every night? Read on for information on how to take care of a garden.

   Never let the soil in your garden dry out. If it doesn’t rain for a few days and the soil feels dry,water your garden. Be sure the water gets all the way down to the roots (the parts that grow down into the soil) of the plants,but don't water too much. You could drown (淹死) your plants!

   You may see some plants in your garden that you didn't put there. These are weeds. Pull them out when the ground is soft and wet. Be sure you get out the roots,or the weeds will grow back.

   Tall plants such as tomatoes need sticks to hold them up. Without sticks,they’ll fall over. When your tomato plants get to be about two feet tall,it ,s time to stick to them. Push a long stick into the ground next to each plant. Tie the plant to the stick with a string. As each plant grows taller,you’ll have to tie it up again.

   If you’ve planted seeds,you can expect too many plants to come out. You have to clear some away,so that the plants left will have room to grow. This is called thinning. If you’ve planted lettuce seeds,wait until the baby plants are about 1. 5 inches tall. Then pull some of the plants out so that you can leave about 8 inches between plants.

   Now that you’ve done all the work to make a vegetable garden,it's time to enjoy what you’ve finished. Pick a red,ripe,juicy tomato. Eat it while ifs still warm from the sun. Or cut it up and put it in a salad-made with lettuce you picked yourself. If you have more vegetables from your garden than you and your family can eat,give them to friends and neighbors. It's fun to have the joy you get from your garden together with others.

  閱讀短文，回答下列問題。

1. How should you water the garden?

2. What are some plants you didn't put in your garden?

3. Do tomatoes need special care?

4. Why should we do thinning?

5. What does the writer mainly want to tell us in the last paragraph?

Answer 1

  本文介紹了如何讓菜園里的植物健康地成長。從撒種、 疏苗到收獲，作者都一一作了介紹。如果你的蔬菜吃不了的 話，可以和朋友們一起享受，那將是非�？鞓返氖�。

1. Be sure the water gets all the way down to the roots of the plants,but don't water too much.根據(jù)第二段第三句話可知，給植物澆水的正確方法應(yīng)是：要澆透，但不要澆 太多的水。

2. Weeds.根據(jù)第三段前兩句話可知，花園里另外長出的 一些植物是雜草。

3. Yes,they do.通讀第四段可知，西紅柿要綁在很長的棍 子上，因此西紅柿需要特別的照顧。

4. Because the plants left will have room to grow.根據(jù)第五段白勺“You have to clear some away,so that the plants left will have room to grow. ”可知，清除部分植株目的是讓剩余的植株長得更好。

5. Ifs fun to enjoy the result of the garden work.根據(jù)最后一段的. it's time to enjoy what you’ve finished."和 結(jié)尾 “It's fun to have the joy you get from your garden together with others. ”可確定本段的主旨大意：享受花園 勞動(dòng)的果實(shí)，包括與他人分享，是非常有趣的。

root n.根   weed  n.野草

string n.細(xì)繩，線  ripe adj.成熟的

障礙句分析

  Then pull some of the plants out so that you can leave about 8 inches between plants.然后把一些植株拔出來，以便 你可以在植株之間留出大約8英寸的空間。

  so that引導(dǎo)目的狀語從句時(shí)，表示“以便;為了”，從句中常使用can/could/may/might/will/would/should 等情態(tài)動(dòng)詞 或助動(dòng)詞；引導(dǎo)結(jié)果狀語從句時(shí)，從句中一般不用can和 may等詞，在so that前可以用逗號，意思是“所以”。