二、 克漏字
 Ⅰ.
         Peter Wang works in a forest in Germany. His job is totake care of trees and roses. Before he ___24___ his career,he knew little about trees, but after years of hard work, he gotto know more about them. One thing especially changed thethought he sees trees.
         It happened one afternoon when Peter was walking in theforest. A big rock with a very strange shape ___25___ hiseye. He went over and studied it very carefully. To hissurprise, it was not a rock, but a piece of wood covered withsmall green plants. More surprisingly, he saw a little greeninside the wood after he cut off a small part of it. In fact,what Peter found was a tree ___26___ was cut down hundredsof years ago. “How could it be? Without leaves, it couldn’thave lived so long,” he thought. Soon he found out___27___ this piece of wood was still living －it was becausethe other trees around it sent their roots to it underground andkept giving it “food.”
       Peter was amazed ___28___ what he found and started tocome up with all sorts of questions. What does it mean iftrees do help each other? Do they have feelings? Can theytalk to each other? Since then, Peter hasn’t stopped studyingtrees.

 root 樹根；sort 種類
【題組】24.
(A) kicked
(B) fixed
(C) seemed
(D) began