探索第三站:战术运用
Care Grows Happiness
After reading The Secret Garden, its warmth stayed with me. It's a story where a lonely garden and lonely children help each other grow.
Mary 1. (arrive) at a big, quiet house in England. She 2. (feel) lonely and angry. She discovered a hidden garden, locked and forgotten for ten years. It 3. (be) full of dead plants and sadness.
But she 4. (do) not give up. With the key she found, she began to work there. She met Dickon, who 5. (understand) animals and plants, and her cousin Colin, who always stayed in his room with tall widows. He never opened them—until the day he 6. (see) green shoots rising outside. Together, they 7. (water) the plants, pulled out the weeds, and waited. Slowly, green leaves and flowers 8. (appear). As the garden woke up, so did the children. Colin learned to walk, and Mary learned to smile.
This story 9. (touch) my heart. Some people think happiness is only in big, exciting places. But sometimes, it 10. (grow) slowly in a small, quiet corner. As the book says, “Where you tend a rose, a thistle(蓟) cannot grow.” Happiness is like that garden. It needs care, friendship, and a little bit of hope. It can change a place, and it can change us, filling our days with something warm and alive.

任务一:侦探实战——“过去式”追踪报告。
恭喜你,新晋语法侦探!现在,请运用你刚刚获得的“过去式分析技能”,结合
以往的其他时态,对上面“书评案件”进行深度追踪,完成实战报告。
第一步:现场证据收集
阅读文章,用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空。

1. arrived
2. felt
3. was
4. did
5. understood
6. saw
7. watered
8. appeared
9. touched
10. grows

这道题考查动词的时态运用：
1. 该句描述《秘密花园》故事中玛丽过去发生的动作，使用一般过去时，arrive的过去式为arrived。
2. 描述玛丽过去的情绪状态，使用一般过去时，feel的过去式为felt。
3. 主语it指代花园，描述花园过去的状态，使用一般过去时，be动词单数形式的过去式为was。
4. 该句是一般过去时的否定结构，助动词do的过去式为did。
5. 定语从句描述Dickon过去的特质，使用一般过去时，understand的过去式为understood。
6. 描述过去某一天发生的动作，使用一般过去时，see的过去式为saw。
7. 描述他们过去一起完成的动作，使用一般过去时，water的过去式为watered。
8. 描述花叶过去出现的动作，使用一般过去时，appear的过去式为appeared。
9. 描述这个故事过去对我产生的影响，使用一般过去时，touch的过去式为touched。
10. 句中sometimes是一般现在时的标志，描述客观常态，主语it是第三人称单数，谓语动词用grows。