If you are lazy and weak, you will never taste success. But if you are    , success and happiness will be more likely to come to you.
I love eating persimmons（柿子）. But you can’t get them until autumn. If you try them before the right time, they probably    bad.
In Grade Six, because of my poor grades, my parents were    that I wouldn’t be able to get into an excellent middle school. They    me to study harder, but I didn’t really understand why they were so anxious.
Summer came. The hot weather made me sleepy and I couldn’t    my textbooks. But every time I wanted to stop    , Mom would shout, “Hey! Think about your    . If you don’t work hard, you’ll regret it!” I had to sit back down again and return to my textbooks. But all I    was playing with my friends and eating persimmons.
My mom would say to me, with a serious look on    face, “If a persimmon tree doesn’t grow in summer, it can’t bear（结出） fruit in autumn! Only by hard work    you get good results.”
    I didn’t understand it at that time, I gradually came to see the truth of her words. A few months later, I succeeded in getting into the key middle school. It was    . Walking in my new school, I could see quite a few persimmon trees. The fruit was so red that it looked as if it was on fire. Suddenly, I       that working hard may be bitter but its fruit is sweet.
My mom was right. If a persimmon tree doesn’t grow    summer, it can’t bear fruit in autumn. I smiled. I had grown through the summer       now it was autumn.
I tasted my success and enjoyed the fruit of my labor!

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