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【完形填空】Cloze: The Orchard School
Elena grew up in a mountain village where her grandmother kept a small herb garden. Her grandmother often said that the soil (1) ______ only to those who paid attention.
Every afternoon after class, Elena would (2) ______ with other children by the village spring. Their laughter echoed through the valley.
She had a natural (3) ______ to detail: the shape of clouds, the (4) ______ of pine needles, the way sunlight (5) ______ on a broken tile near the path.
Neighbours predicted she would certainly become a painter, (6) ______ a poor one.
At nineteen she moved to the city, attracted by its wealth and its promise of (7) ______. The contrast was harsh.
She met noise, rush, and a broad (8) ______. The city seemed to make light of everything she had once valued.
Its industrial outlook, she wrote home, would prove (9) ______ to any idea of balance. Her letters became shorter.
Then her grandmother became ill. She returned, and the change was complete. Standing again among the herbs, she felt a strong (10) ______ of memory.
The old impressions came rushing back. She began to recover what adulthood had almost erased.
She started a small school for local children, using the garden as a classroom. She would describe each season, and the children would tell her what they saw.
Their participation was voluntary, their questions urgent and full of new ideas.
Her project was not symbolic. It was, she said, a way of (11) ______ the exploitation of the land and of the young.
She wanted to (12) ______ the link between the village and its surroundings, to separate profit from destruction.
Visitors came, drawn by coverage in a regional paper. She boasted of nothing.
She simply said the work was a contribution to a fragile, (13) ______ balance.
Her grandmother, sitting under the pear tree, said only that she had learned to listen. The garden, once a place of labour, had become a place of learning. That, for her, was the (14) ______ point.
Choices
(1) A. replies B. responds C. answers D. returns
(2) A. assemble B. gather C. collect D. meet
(3) A. attention B. attraction C. affection D. admission
(4) A. quantity B. density C. intensity D. volume
(5) A. fell B. felt C. flowed D. filled
(6) A. despite B. therefore C. although D. however
(7) A. leisure B. pleasure C. treasure D. measure
(8) A. difference B. indifference C. reference D. conference
(9) A. essential B. detrimental C. neutral D. beneficial
(10) A. arose B. around C. arousal D. arouse