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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 yard that Amy explored 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 what ________ clovers to grow that fourth leaf. It’s because of the plant’s genes (基因). 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 in groups. “Then I wanted to find more of them,” she said. Amy began searching for more four-leaf clovers in the yard and it became her new hobby. By the summer of the next year, she had ________ more than 500 of them.

Her parents felt ________ that Amy found a way to lower stress that many children were experiencing during the pandemic. Her grandmother was also glad 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 peace,” she added, “and this was wonderful because they were right in my backyard.”