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    Most Chinese children seem to get ____ they want. Is this a sort of spoiling(溺爱) or love? I wonder. To my surprise, it seems that the life of a Chinese child is ____ (real) hard. Without doubt , the child is the very centre of a whole circle of adults, but ____ the other hand, he or she is also ____ (expect) to start studying according to adults' wishes. Many children of my son's ____ (age) take painting classes, piano lessons, and even English lessons. It looks as if Chinese adults think ____ just playing without learning anything is ____ waste of time.

    So from this point, Western children appear spoiled, just because they are allowed____ (play). But without this sort of play, ____ can Western children develop such free and rich imaginations? In fact, the connection between this imagination and the creativity is so important in the ____ (child) future life.