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Johnnie Martin was born in a worker’s family. His parents lived a simple life, saving money for the day when they could send him to a good university. They had dreamed that their son could get a good ____ and live a better life. However, to Johnnie, school lessons seemed like a wall that was impossible to go through.

One day when he was in Grade 11, Johnnie went ____ school psychologist’s office to ask for help.

“Johnnie, I’ve been studying your marks of all the tests at school. I’ve made a ____ study of them,” said the psychologist.

“I’ve been trying hard.” Johnnie was about to ____.

The psychologist put his hand on the boy’s shoulder, “People have different kinds of talents, Johnnie. There are painters who were ____ able to learn maths, and engineers who can’t sing on key. Some day you will find ____ you are good at, and when you do, you will make your parents and all of us very ____ you.”

Johnnie didn’t go to university. He found a job working in the gardens around the town. Soon ____ amazing happened. His customers began to notice that Johnnie had what they called “green thumb”. The plants he ____ grew, and the roses blossomed. People started to accept his ____ for gardening, because he had an eye for colour and light. One day while he was downtown, he happened to ____ an unused dirty land behind the city hall. He volunteered to make it into a garden. That very afternoon as soon as he got the permission, he started the work, ____ he couldn’t afford all the tools or the plants that were ____ for it. People gave him young trees, rose-bushes, benches and many other things. Before long, it had become a beautiful little ____.

Today Johnnie is the head of the business in gardening. Wherever he and his men go, they ____ beauty before the eyes of people.