Amy is 11 years old and lives in a city. She _________ much of her time at her grandmother’s home during the pandemic (疫情). The house has a large _________ that Amy explored (探索) when she wasn’t doing schoolwork online.

One day, she saw her first four-leaf clover (四叶草) in the yard. “I was just walking, and I was so _________ because I know that they are not very common,” she said, “some people say they bring good luck.”

Amy then researched _________ causes clovers to grow that fourth leaf. It’s because of the plant’s genes. The plant’s genes tell the plant to grow three leaves. _________ sometimes the genes tell the plant to grow four leaves. _________, a 2017 study found that just one in 5,000 clovers has four leaves.

Amy has learned that four-leaf clovers grow _________ groups. “Then I wanted to find more of them,” she said. Amy began searching for more four-leaf clovers in the yard and it _________ her new hobby. By the summer of the next year, she had _________ more than 500 of them.

Her parents felt happy that Amy found a way to lower stress that many children were ____________ during the pandemic. Her grandmother was also ____________ that Amy went outdoors and explored nature. “It’s a good thing that a city child was taking a(n) ____________ in nature.”

For her part, Amy said she has a way of ____________ the loneliness she felt during the pandemic. “It gave me something to do because I didn’t have the ____________ of being sad,” she said. “I got ____________,” she added, “and this was wonderful because they were right in my backyard.”

Once upon a time, a group of frogs was traveling through the woods. Suddenly two of them fell into a deep pit (坑). Other ______ came over and they carefully stood _______ the pit to see how deep it was. They told the two frogs that the pit was too _______ and there was no hope left for them. ________ the two frogs decided to ignore (忽略) what the others were saying and they kept trying to ________ of the pit.

The group of frogs at the top of the pit saw the two frogs’ efforts, but they were still saying that they should just give up. They even said: “You two would _____ make it out.”

Finally, one of the frogs heard what the others were saying and he decided to give up. He gave up trying and soon ______. After the death of this frog, the other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Again, the crowd of frogs shouted at him to stop the pain and just die.

He jumped even ________ and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs asked: “Did you not hear ________?”

The frog didn’t know what they were saying, but he explained to them that he was ________. He thought they were encouraging him when he was keeping trying.

Two little boys were playing one day when a Fairy (仙女) suddenly appeared before them and said, “Father Time asks me to ________ you New Year presents.” She handed each child a package and disappeared immediately.

Carl and Philip opened the ________ and found two books with clean pages in them.

Twelve months passed and the fairy came again and said, “I have brought you ________ two books and will take the first one back to Father Time.”

“May I keep ________ book a little longer?” asked Philip, “I’d like to paint something on the last page.”

“No,” said the Fairy.

“I wish that I could finish reading mine at a time,” said Carl, “I can only open the book once each day ________ see only one page every time, because ________ the page turns over, it sticks fast.”

The Fairy said, “Well, you can read Philip’s book.” Then she lit (点亮) two little lamps for them. By the light of the lamps they saw the pages as she turned them.

“________ did this?” they asked in surprise, “Every page was ________ when we first opened it. But now some pages are drawn with beautiful things like birds and ________ and some pages with ugly, black spots and scratches (划痕) on them!”

The Fairy, smiling at the two little boys, said, “See, Philip, the beautiful birds and flowers appeared when you ________ toys with your friends, or when you try to be kind to others.”

“But what made the ugly, ________ spots and scratches?” asked Philip.

The Fairy said, “That came when you told a lie one day, or when you did not listen to your mum. All these ugly spots and scratches in your books were made when you were naughty (淘气的). Each pretty thing in your books came on its page when you were ________.”

“Oh, we wish to read the books ________!”

“They can’t be read once more,” said the Fairy, “See! They are only for this year, and they must now go back into Father Time’s bookcase, but I have brought you each a new ________, and perhaps you can make these more beautiful than the first ones.”

With these words, the Fairy ________. The boys were left alone, but each held in his hand a new book open at the first page.

And on the back of each book was written in letters of gold, “For the New Year”.