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I grew up in the countryside.At around 10 years old，I began to learn cooking.The first skill I mastered was making dough（面团）.Since my parents often came home （1）l

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，a prepared dough would help my family have supper sooner.I thought it would be （2）e

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because I often saw my mum do it — just mix water and flour，right？Not quite!It turned out to be a （3）m

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for a while.First I made the dough too soft.Then I made it too hard.But as I kept trying，I learned the trick.
   Later，I cooked fried dishes and things like dumplings and I （4）f

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in love with cooking.It's a good way to relax.More importantly，thanks to my cooking skill，I live better （5）d

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the COVID-19 pandemic.Now working at home，I cook every meal instead of ordering takeout.It （6）s

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money and I don't have to wait for delivery drivers to feed me.
   Besides cooking，I did a lot of （7）f

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work in my childhood.I got to know how to plant vegetables.（8）T

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it was hard work，the experience taught me things that many of my friends still don't know.For example，the part of a potato that has sprouts（芽）can be planted as a seed.I once discussed this with my friends from the city.They thought it was a （9）p

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that they didn't have the chance to learn these things in their lives.
   Some might say we can learn these things from textbooks.But it can't compare to the （10）j

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of learning firsthand，watching plants blossom and grow.It brings a new way to look at the world.