D．cautiously

　　C

　　(2015·泰州高三调研)There was a young woman who took great pride in the growth and care of the flowers in her flower garden. She was __1__ by her grandmother who taught her to love and __2__ flowers as she herself had done. So, like her grandmother, her flower garden was __3__.

　　One day while looking through a flower catalogue (邮购商品目录) she often ordered from, a picture of a plant __4__ her eye. She had never seen blooms (花朵) on a flower like that before. “I have to have it，” she said to herself, and she __5__ ordered it.

　　When it arrived, she __6__ had a place prepared to plant it. She planted it at the base of a stone fence at the back of her yard. It grew vigorously, with beautiful green leaves all over it, __7__ there were no blooms. Day after day she __8__ to take care of it, water it, __9__it, and she even talked to it attempting to coax (哄骗) it to bloom. However, it was __10__.

　　One morning weeks later, as she stood before the plant, she felt so __11__ that her plant had not bloomed. She was giving much __12__ to cutting it down and planting something else in its place.

　　It was at this __13__ that her neighbor, whose yard joined __14__， called over to her. “Thank you so much! You __15__ not imagine how much I have enjoyed the blooms of that flower you planted.” The young woman walked __16__ the gate into her neighbor’s yard, and sure __17__， she saw that on the other side of the fence the plant was filled with blooms.

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