题目内容：

根据下面短文内容，在短文的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。

More and more people show great interest in keeping green plants in their work places. They buy plants because they believe that the plants can decorate(装点) their lives. I______1._____ bought a jasmine（茉莉花） plant for my office a year ago. When I bought it, I was_____2._____ by the shop keeper it would bloom（开花）and the sweet smell would fill my office. I had the plant for two months, and every day I looked at it, but there weren't any flowers or pleasant smell. I was not happy, _____3._______I gave the plant to my friend Linda.

One day, another friend Mary called and invited me to her office. When I walked in, her jasmine flowers surprised me. I reached out to touch the flowers. Mary cut some and gave them to me. I couldn't help smelling them. What a pleasant ______4.______ it was! Surrounded by the sweet smell of only a handful of these flowers, I suddenly understood something.

Mary bought her plant the _____5.______ time as me. It took her jasmine a year to bloom. I was so impatient for mine to bloom. I even gave it ____ 6.____ to someone else.

In a way, my life is _____7._____ the jasmine plant. I need to be patient and let things happen.

Last Sunday Linda told me that she was going abroad the next week. Before she left, she returned the plant to me. This time I am going to wait. I have learned that when we want something in our life, we have to be patient. I am slowly learning to have that patience to ____8._______ for my jasmine to bloom.