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Helen was sitting in the garden reading her favorite book. Some time later, her old ________ sat beside her. Suddenly, she pointed at something and asked Helen what it was. Helen looked at it and told her it was a sparrow (麻雀). Helen was ________ by the simple question.

Helen went on reading. Several ________ later, her old mother asked her the same question and Helen found it was the same bird. After a little while, the old woman again asked the question about the sparrow. This time Helen got ________. She shouted at her mother for asking the question again and again. The old woman ________ stood up and entered the house. Helen continued reading her book. A few minutes passed and her old mother ________ beside her again. She opened an old diary and put it in front of Helen. Helen picked up the diary and began to read it. It said, “Today, while I was ________ in the garden, my little Helen came to me. Looking at a sparrow on a tree, my child asked me what it was. I ________ at her, said it was a sparrow and kissed her. After a while, little Helen asked the question again. This went on until she went back into the house with me after I finished my work. Little Helen asked me at least ten times and I kept on answering her and ________ her.”

Tears came into Helen’s eyes. She closed the ________ and felt very sorry for what she did. She realized that she should treat her mother the way her mother treated her.