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Since the one-child policy in the 1970s, many couples have only one kid. Unluckily, sometimes the kid passes away for some reasons. Who can help to1 the parents? What should the parents do to drive the sadness away?

Mr. Black is in this situation. His son died in a car accident last year. He was so2 that he cried every day. One day, someone told him to3 a clever man for help. Hopelessly, he did. He asked, "Is there any way I can4 my sadness?" The clever man told him, "Go and bring me a seed(种子) from a home without sadness. I will5 it to drive the sadness out of your life." Mr. Black went off at once to look for that magical seed.

First, he came to a beautiful house, knocked at the door and asked6,"Excuse me, I am looking for a home without sadness. Is this such a place?" They told him, "You've certainly come to the7 place," and began to describe all the sad things happened to them. Mr. Black said to himself, "Who is able to help these people8  the same sadness like me?" He stayed to cheer them up 9 he went on looking for another home.

But wherever he went, whether in the homes of the poor or the rich, he found one sad story after another. He became busy helping other people that he10 about looking for the seed. Then he realized that helping others could drive the sadness out of his life.