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1. The key to gardening with kids, says Patti Kraemer-Doell, Family garden coordinator at the New York Botanical Gardens, is “Letting them experience it themselves. We have tried to guide them, but not tell them to put the sunflowers here and the tomatoes there. The emphasis is on developing their imagination and their appreciation for being out in the garden.”
2. Guidance comes in the form of a string grid that is stretched across a planting bed, which divides it into one-foot squares. Kids get advice about how many seeds or seedlings to put in each square and how deep to plant them. Volunteers show kids pictures of how the full-grown plants will look, so they understand how much room each plant needs.
3. Theme gardens have been a big hit in the program, and are easy to do in a home garden. Try a barnyard garden, suggests Kraemer-Doell, using plants whose names have associations with barnyard animals-lambs ears, hen and chicks, and cowslip, for example. Let kids grow a salsa garden, with all sorts of tomatoes, hot peppers, onions, and cilantro. A pizza garden can have basil, oregano, and tomatoes, In a Persian carpet garden, kids can focus on colored flowers. A seed garden can include plants that disperse their seeds in different ways, from milkweed to sunflowers.
4. Kraemer-Doell also suggests trying a sunflower house. Let kids plant sunflower seeds in a square, leaving space for a door in front. As the sunflowers grow, put a hay fence around them for protection and stake if necessary. Plant morning glories or sweet peas around the base of each sunflower, and they will grow up the stems, eventually forming a roof over the top. By summer’s end, kids will have a sunflower house to play in.
5. Some kids might just want to play in the garden, says Kraemer-Doell. At the family garden, there’s a special place set aside just for digging and looking at insects and worms. It’s a very popular spot.
1.Paragraph 1________
2.Paragraph 2________
3.Paragraph 3________
4.Paragraph 4________
A. Different Kinds of Gardens
B. Showing Kids the Pictures
C. To Build a Sunflower House
D. How to Plant Seeds or Seedlings
E. The Most Important Point in Family Gardening
F. Kinds of Plants in a Home Garde
参考答案：E D A C F C A E
答案解析：
1. 第一段中的“key”和“emphasis”意思都在强调家庭园艺的关键和重点，在六个选项中， E中的“the most important point”指的是“重点”，所以答案选择E。
2. 在第二段中，作者提到了“seeds or seedlings”，在几个选项中只有D的关键词与之相符，所以答案选择D.
3. 在第三段中，作者提到了“a barnyard garden”，“a salsa garden”，“A pizza garden”，“a Persian carpet garden”以及“A seed garden”，所以本段的主要内容是介绍各种不同的园艺，答案选择A.
4. 第四段的第一句话也是本段的主旨句，“Kraemer-Doell also suggests trying a sunflower house.”，所以答案选择C.
5. 这道题的关键词是“Pictures of full-grown plants”，回归到文章中，我们发现答案在第二段中寻找，“Volunteers show kids pictures of how the full-grown plants will look, so they understand how much room each plant needs.”这句话指出这些生长好的植物图片是给孩子们的(kids=children)，所以答案选择F.
6. 根据本题的关键词“A barnyard garden”，我们知道答案在第三段中。根据“Try a barnyard garden, suggests Kraemer-Doell, using plants whose names have associations with barnyard animals-lambs ears, hen and chicks, and cowslip, for example.”这句话，我们得出答案选择C.
7. 本题的答案可以在第四段的最后一句话“By summer’s end, kids will have a sunflower house to play in.”中找到，这句话的意思是说“在夏末的时候，孩子们可以在种满向日葵的房子里玩”，夏末时期也就是秋季到来的时候，所以本题答案选择A。
8. 根据本题的句子结构，我们知道be able to后面接动词原形，排除前面选过的A，C和F选项，本题答案只能在B，D和E中选择，在这三个选项中，只有B和E符合，但B是被动句，主语只能是物，不能是人，而本题的主语是人，所以答案只能选择E.