Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small     1    (carrot) and was about to throw them away. But something made her look closer, and she noticed a     2    (shine) object. Yes, there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring.

Pahlsson screamed     3     loudly that her daughter came running from the house. “She thought I had hurt     4    (I),” says Pahlsson.

Sixteen years     5    (early), Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring     6     (cook) a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone. She suspected that one of her three daughters — then ten, eight, and six — had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn’t. Pahlsson and her husband     7    (search) the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing. “I gave up hope of finding my ring again,” she says. She never replaced it.

Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got     8    (sweep) into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden,     9     it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was     10     wonder.