高考英语七选五专题讲解

第1篇  体裁：议论文 主题：家庭花园

Home gardens produce delicious food. But that’s not their main virtue.

Imagine a plate holding two strawberries, identical in appearance. One came out of a supermarket box, probably harvested unripe. 36 The other was picked from a garden minutes before being eaten. The first one will probably taste like a slightly sour grape, while the second is likely to be sweet and rich in flavour.

Supermarket strawberries are not entirely without advantages. They are convenient and available（可获得的，能买到） in the northern globe even in February. But the two berries differ from each other in the same way that hearing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata in a concert hall differs from listening to it on an old tape. 37

Other people, however, believe gardening is a waste of time. But the same could be said of cooking. There are cheap and decent restaurants around, so why bother to make your own meals? 38 They mistake the product for the purpose.

Actually, a garden, especially in the early years, can produce little but frustration(挫败感). New gardeners may plant the wrong crops for their soil. Rabbits have an annoying habit of taking single bites of vegetables, then leaving the rest to go bad. 39 No matter. The real joy of gardening is the time spent doing it. The deepest pleasure—as with cooking, writing, bringing up children or almost anything worthwhile-is in the work itself （最深的乐趣——比如烹饪、写作、抚养孩子或几乎任何有价值的东西——就在于工作本身）. A gardener’s memories revolve not around the food produced, but around long afternoons with hands in the dirt.

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A. No one can ever avoid this hard stage.  

B. So why don’t we start home gardening for delicious food?

C. This might explain why many people desire a home garden.

D. These people misunderstand the ultimate appeal of gardening.

E. By the time it reached the plate it may have been off the plant（草莓植株） for days.

F.To garden is to patiently and lovingly help life grow, in the ground and

above it.

G. And even expert gardeners can lose a season’s harvest to uncooperative weather. （即使是专业的园丁也会因为不合作的天气而失去一季的收成。）