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When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess in the school play.
For weeks my mother helped me (1) ______ my sentences. But once during a performance, every word (2) ______ from my head. My teacher asked me to change roles and be the narrator(解说员). Though I didn’t tell my mother what had(3) ______ that day, she felt my (4) ______ and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard.
It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions(蒲公英)coming out through the grass, just like a painter had touched our woods and fields with bits of gold. I watched my mother carelessly bend down(弯腰) (5) ______ some flowers. “I think I am going to dig up all the wild grass,” she said. “But I like dandelions, all flowers are beautiful—even dandelions!” I said . My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower shines in (6) ______ own way. And that is true of people, too,” she said. Sh e had guessed my pain. I started to cry and told her the (7) ______ . “You will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, (8) ______ me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her.
Over the next few weeks, I learned to take (9) ______ in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing me a (10) ______ . After the play, I took the flower home, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such wild grass.
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