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PAGE  PAGE 19 　 Cloze 1 体裁：夹叙夹议　话题：励志人生　时间：16分钟 There is a story about an elm tree.It was planted in the first half of the 20th century on a farm.It grew to be a __1__ tree. The family that owned the farm kept a bull __2__ to the elm.The bull paced around the tree，dragging a heavy iron chain with it，which __3__ a trench in the bark about three feet off ground.The trench __4__ over the years，though for whatever reason，which did not kill the tree. After some years，the family sold the __5__ and took their bull.They cut the chain，leaving the loop around the tree and one link hanging down.Over the years，the __6__ slowly covered the rusting chain. Then one year later，an agricultural disaster struck Michigan in the form of a __7__.It left a path of death across vast areas.All of the elms __8__ the road became infected and died.Everyone __9__ that the old elm would be the next. The present owner of the farm considered doing the __10__ thing: cutting it down and chopping it up into firewood before it __11__.But he simply could not bring himself to do it.It was as if the old tree had become a family friend.So he decided to let __12__ take its course. __13__，the tree did not die.Year after year it __14__.Nobody could understand why it was that the only elm was still standing in the county! Scientists came to __15__ the tree.They observed the scar left by the iron chain，which was almost completely __16__ by the bark and badly rusted now.They decided that it was the chain that __17__ the elms life.They reasoned that the tree must have __18__ so much iron from the rusting chain that it became __19__ to the fungus. Look at the wound made by the chain.Our __20__ can give us resources we need to survive.They can truly make us strong. 【语篇导读】　本文是一篇夹叙夹议类的文章。文章讲述了农场上的一棵榆树，树皮上被磨出了一道很深的印痕，后来路两旁的树都因为一种病而死去，而这棵榆树却幸存下来的故事。作者意在告诉我们：我们自己所受的伤会使我们获得生存所需的东西，会使我们更加坚强。 1．A.hollow B．leafless C．young D．magnificent 解析　考查上下文暗示。结合前面的“It was planted in the first half of the 20