题目内容：

Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’ 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.