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When
I was a little girl, my grandma told me if I planted something in spring, I
would get more in autumn. I1what she
said without doubt(怀疑).
At
the age of six, while I was eating a big apple, 2hard
pressed against my tongue(舌头). I spat(吐)it out. It was a(n)3! I was
so scared that I cried and ran into my grandma's room. She looked at the tooth
and4, "Don't worry, dear. It's a baby
tooth. You will have a new tooth in a few5. "
"A
new tooth? In a few months?" I felt very6.
"Yes,
you will have your new teeth7you get old, and you must protect your
new teeth well. When you become an old woman, the teeth will fall again. 8at that
time, they won't grow again. So it's not9for old people to eat something hard,"
my grandma said.
I
went out of my grandma's room and thought,"10should
I put the tooth?"
I
thought for minutes, and then I had a good11—why not plant it in the garden? If I
took good care of it, day after day, maybe it would become a big tree. When12came,
there would be many white and strong teeth on the13. I could pick them and send them to some14people.
Then they could eat hard things with these teeth.
Of
course my "tooth tree" couldn't15into
a big tree at all, but what my grandma said had been in my mind for years.