It was in autumn. A woman was ill. She stayed in the hospital . She had no daughters or sons. Her husband died ten years ago. So nobody  her. She felt  . There was a tree outside her room. She the leaves(叶子) fall down. Day after day, there were fewer and fewer leaves on the tree. The woman was very sad. She didn't want to eat or drink. She became worse day by day. She got a strong  of death. One day she said, "When the last leaf falls down. I will die. "

when a(n) artist heard that, he  a good idea. He to paint a green and yellow leaf and put it in the tree when all yellow leaves fell down on a cold night. The next morning, when the woman looked out of the window, shethe last leaf still there. You could  how happy the woman was. After that, she gradually(逐渐地) got better.