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Once there was a lovely vegetable field with a very big tree in it. Both the vegetables and the t____ made the garden look wonderful.
No one knew that the vegetables in the field and the tree couldn't get on well with each other. The vegetables h____ the tree. They thought the tree did not leave them e____ light to survive. On the other hand, the tree hated the vegetables. He complained that the vegetables drank nearly all the water b____ it could get to him.
The situation became worse and worse. One day, the vegetables got angry and decided to use up all the w____ in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree fought back by refusing to give the vegetables shade(树荫) from the hot sun. Soon they both began to dry up.
Neither of them thought that the gardener would stop watering his vegetable f____ when he saw it becoming worse. When the gardener did that, the tree and the vegetables really felt how t____ they were. There seemed to be no ways to solve the problem, but one of the vegetables, a small pumpkin r____ what was going on, and decided to deal with it. Though there was little water and it was too hot, the little pumpkin did all he could to grow. F____ he grew very big, the gardener noticed that and started watering the field again because he wanted to win the beautiful big pumpkin competition. At the same time, the tree and the vegetables grew better. They realized that it was better to help each other than to f____.
From then on, they worked together and lived in harmony with these around them.
