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    When we plant a rose seed in the earth,we notice it is small,but we do not criticize it as "rootlees and stemless".We treat it as a seed, ____ （give）it the water and nourishment required ____ a seed.

    When it first ____ （shoot up）out of the earth, we don't condemn（指责）it as ____ （mature） and underdeveloped, ____ do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process ____ （take） place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

    The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies.Within it,at all times,it contains its whole potential. It seems to be ____ （constant） in the process of change: Yet at each state， at each moment, it is perfectly all right as ____ it is.

    A flower is not ____ （good）when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is ____ same thing---a flower in the process of expressing its potential.