动词填空: I bought a jasmine(茉莉花) plant for my office. When I bought it, I 1.__________(tell) it would bloom(开花) and the sweet smell 2._________(fill) my office. I had the plant for two months, and every day I looked at it, but there 3.__________( be not) any flowers or pleasant smell. I was not happy, so I gave the plant to my friend Linda. One day, another friend Mary called and 4._________( invite) me to her office. When I walked in, her jasmine flowers surprised me. I reached out 5.___________(touch) the flowers. Mary cut some and gave them to me. I couldn't help smelling them. Surrounded by the sweet smell of only a handful of these flowers, I suddenly 6______(understand) something. Mary bought her plant the same time I did. It took a year for her jasmine 7.___________(bloom). I was so impatient for mine to bloom; regretfully, I gave it away. In a way my life is like the jasmine plant. I need 8. _______(be) patient and let things happen. Last Sunday Linda told me that she 9._________(go) abroad the next week. Before she left, she returned the plant to me. This time I am going to wait. I 10____________(learn) that when we want something in our life, we have to be patient. I am slowly learning to have that patience to wait for my jasmine to bloom.
答案:1. was told 2.would fill 3.weren’t 4.invited 5. to touch 6.understood 7.to bloom 8. to be 9. would go 10. have learned