Passage 63
学霸导读 纯白色的金盏花告诉我们只要坚定心中信念，即使平凡的人也能创造奇迹。
One year， a college in the United States announced that it would offer a lot of money for the pure white marigold （ 金盏花 ）. The high reward a 1 so many people. But in nature， b 2 golden， the marigold is brown， and it is not easy to get the white one. So after they were excited for a time， many people had forgotten the announcement.
One normal day after 20 years, the college received a letter and 100 seeds of pure white marigold. It t 3 out to be an old woman of over 70 years old. Some experts in the college doubted it, but in order not to let her down, those seeds f inally took root in the earth. The miracle appeared after one year—the f ield was c 4 by pure white marigold.
Therefore, the old woman who was u 5 to the public became a new focus.
The old woman was a f lower-lover. When she read the announcement 20 years ago， she got very excited like others. But her eight children were totally a 6 her decision. After all， a woman who never knew the seed genetics （ 遗传学 ） couldn’t complete w 7 the experts could never do， so her thought was only a day dream.
Still， the old woman didn’t change her mind and went on working. She planted some of the most common seeds and took good c 8 of them. A year later， when the marigold came out， she chose one faintest （ 最暗淡的 ） from those golden and brown f lowers and got the best seed. The next year， she again grew them and chose... Day after day， year after year， through many seasons， the old woman’s husband died， her children f lew far， a lot of things happened in her life， but only the wish to grow the pure white marigold took root in her heart.
Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the garden she saw a marigold, which was not n 9 white, but as white as snow.
A problem even experts couldn’t deal with was s 10 by an old woman who didn’t understand genetics. Was it a miracle?
To take root in the heart, even the most common seed can grow into a miracle.
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高频词汇
let sb. down 让某人失望 take root in 扎根