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短文填空,阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life._____ 1.___these proverbs there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop ____2.____ (help) it grow”, is based on the following story. It is said that a short-tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960—1279) was very anxious to help ___3._____ rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about _____4.____day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected. One day, he came up with an idea _____5.___ he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day. He was very tired ____6.___ doing this for a whole day, ____7.___ he felt very happy since the crop did “grow”__8.____(high). His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately, the leaves of the crop began to wither. This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their ___9.___ (nature) course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often___10.____ (result) in the contrary to our intention.