【正确答案】 1、正确答案：Growing Flowers As a lover of flowers, I am fond of growing them. Short of time to do the research and experiment about the flowers , I"m yet to be a good gardener. Flower cultivation is only a hobby of mine, thus blooms, big or small, gorgeous or plain, always bring me joy. In summer, flowers and plants growing in luxuriance in my small courtyard allow little space as a play ground, so the little cats have to play on the roof. Though I grow a lot of flowers, few of them are rare or exotic ones. Precious breeds are too delicate to grow, and it is heartbreaking to see a good flower dying of illness. I don"t want to shed tears over that. The climate in Beijing is not very fit for growing flowers in that it is cold in winter, windy in spring, either too dry or too often visited by downpours in summer. While autumn is the best of all, yet it is often struck by sudden frosts. It is far beyond my capacity to grow precious flowers from the south in a climate like this, so I only have those hardy plants of high vitality. Although those flowers are able to weather through by themselves, most of them will die if I ignore them and abandon them to their own fate. I have to take care of them as if they were my close friends.