When I was young, I had an old neighbor , Dr. Gibbs. He never invited us to play in his yard. But he was a very kind person.

Dr. Gibbs had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants would spoil(毁坏) them. If you watered them, each young tree would grow weaker and weaker. So you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early.

He talked about how watered trees grew shallow(浅的) roots, and how trees that weren't watered had to grow deep roots in search of (寻找)water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important. So he never watered his trees.

Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. When I came back home, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about 25 years ago. They were very big and strong. I planted some trees a few years later and carried water to them for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.

Every night before I go to bed , I check on my two sons. Mostly I hope that their lives will be easy. But now it's time to change my idea. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is get roots that reach deep into the brave heart. When the rains fall and the winds blow, we can face them strongly and won't be beaten down.

【小题1】Dr. Gibbs never invited the writer to play in his yard, did he?
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【小题2】Why do some trees that aren't watered have to grow deep roots?
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【小题3】How old are the trees that planted by Dr. Gibbs?
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【小题4】Does the writer understand Dr. Gibbs' interesting ideas about planting trees at last?
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【小题5】What can we learn from Dr. Gibbs' interesting ideas about planting trees?
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