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Many years ago, when I was 5 years old, my mother grew some plants on the balcony (阳台). As ________ came, some flowers came out. I enjoyed looking at them very much. They were so ________. But they didn’t give out any sweet smells (气味). How can I ________ them to smell as good as they look? After ________ about the problem for a few days, I had a good idea.

One day, when my parents were not at home, I picked a bottle of perfume (香水) from my mother’s dressing table. Then I ________ the bottle cap and poured (倾倒) some perfume onto the plants. I was very ________ that I helped to make my lovely flowers become better. But to my surprise (惊讶), a few days later, I noticed the flowers fell (凋落), before summer arrived, the plants lost their lives. I cried and I knew I did something wrong.

Later, my mother told me the ________. She said the perfume was really bad for plants. Some beautiful flowers have no smells at all. We can’t change it as we like. Everything in life follows the ways of nature (自然). We must not put our ideas into ________ before we learn about the ways of nature.

What a lesson!

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