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阅读理解 One day I stopped to think about growing apples. I was eating a delicious, juicy apple and took a big bite. As a result, I got an apple seed into my mouth. I spat it out into my hand, with the intention of throwing it away. But instead I looked at the apple seed. I realized I was holding an apple tree in the palm of my hand. A little seed with the potential to become a beautiful big tree-a tree that could grow thousands of apples in its lifetime. Why then the world wasn't filled with apple trees? It is a rule of nature that only a few of these seeds grow. And it came to my mind that it's also quite often so with people's dreams. Wonderful ideas come to our minds but they die too soon-we don't tend to the little saplings, we don't protect them as we should. And then one day we wonder what happened to our dreams-why did they never come true? The seeds of your dreams did not automatically grow, like planting an apple tree. It might take many tries: like a hundred job applications to get that good job. You might send your manuscript out two hundred times before it was accepted. Some people think their best time in life is when they are young. I refuse to believe that. There are plenty of examples out there that prove you can achieve amazing things even in your mature years. I love the little story of a woman who decided she wanted to go and study when she was in her forties. Her husband asked her. "Do you realize that if you start your studies now, you will be fifty when you graduate?" To which this admirable lady replied:" Darling-l shall be fifty in any case". So go ahead and follow your dreams. No matter what they are, no matter what your age, and no matter what others think of it. It's your life after all. （1） How does the author introduce the topic of the text? A . By giving a classic example. B . By telling us a natural phenomenon. C . By asking and answering a question D . By describing a personal experience. （2） Which of the following is true according to the author? A . Wonderful ideas will not die easily. B . The seeds of our dreams grow naturally. C . Our dreams will not come true without tries. D . We never know what will happen to our dreams. （3） What does the author tell the story of the woman to show? A . People will grow old anyway. B . It's never late to achieve things. C . It's better to start doing things early. D . We should not care what others think of us. （4） What is the author's purpose of writing the text? A . To describe how our dreams are ruined. B . To treat apple seeds like our dreams. C . To encourage us to pursue our dreams. D . To explain the process of growing apple trees. 答案： D C B C

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