Question

阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

A black boy helped his father look after the barrels (桶).Every morning he cleaned up every barrel on the farm， and then put them in order. To his anger， the wind blew the barrels here and t 1. during the night.

The boy wrote a letter to the wind，‘‘Please don't blow down my barrels. ” After seeing that， his father asked the boy， “Can the wind r 2. your letter?” The little boy said，“I don't know， but I have no other choices. ”

The next morning， when the little boy ran to see the barrels， he found that the annoying(恼人的)wind still blew the barrels down again. The little boy couldn't help crying. His father said gently， “Boy，don't be s 3. . We may have no way of how to s 4. the wind from doing that， but we can f___5.____ out our own ways to the barrels.”

Then the little boy stopped crying to think over and over. After t____6.___ half a day， he finally found out a way. He collected some w 7. from the river and poured it into those empty barrels. On the t___8.____ morning，the little boy went out， and saw the barrels were in good order.

The little boy told his father calmly， “If we don't want the barrels blown down by the wind， we have no way to the wind， b 9. we have ways to the barrels. It's a very simple w 10. ， that is， to add weight to the barrels. ”‘‘You are a young adult now，” said his father happily.

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