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PAGE 2 - 四川省通江县2016高考英语阅读能力训练题（8） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。 When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didnt look like any doctor Id ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind. When Doctor Gibbs wasnt saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: No pain, no gain. He hardly watered his new trees, an attitude which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because