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语言朋友(77)dn't look like any other doctor I've ever known.He never__1__ at us for playing in his yard.I remembered him as a kind and__2__ person.When Dr.Gibbs didn't work, he planted trees.His house covered an area of ten acres, and his life's goal was to make it __3__. He had some interesting __4__ concerning planting.He belonged to the 揘o pains, no gains?s__5__ of plant growing.He never watered his__6__ trees.Once I asked why, he said, 揥atering pliants will spoil them, and if you water them, each successive tree__7__will grow weaker and weaker.So you have to make things __8__ for them and weed out the weak ones.” So he never watered his trees.He would __9__a pine, and instead of__10__it every morning, he beat it with a rolled璾p newspaper.I a__11__ him why he did so, and he said it was to get the tree's __12__. I planted a couple of trees a few __13__ ago.I carried water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them and prayed over them.Two years of careful tending has __14__ in trees that expect to be __15__ to hand and foot.Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble their branches. Dr.Gibbs passed away a __16__of years after I left home.Now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees.They're __17__now, big and healthy. Funny things about Dr.Gibbs' trees.Hardship and difficulty seemed to__18__ them while comfort and ease never could. Life is tough, whether we want__19__ to be or not.Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met.What we need to do is to pray for__20__ that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept away | 
