The story goes     1     two friends are walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they have     2     argument, and one friend beats the other one in the face.

The one is hurt, but     3     saying anything, he writes in the sand: “Today my best friend beats me in the face.”

They keep on walking     4     they find an oasis (绿洲) and they decide to take a bath. The one who    5     (beat) gets stuck in the mire (泥潭) and starts to sink, but     6     (fortune) the friend saves him.

After he recovers from the near     7     (drown), he writes on a stone: “Today my best friend saves my life.”

His friend asks him, “When I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, but now you write on a stone. Why?”

He     8     (reply): “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, the winds of     9     (forgive) can rub it away. But when someone does something good to us, we must carve     10     on a stone, therefore, no wind can ever erase it.”

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to engrave your benefits on the stone.

There is a wonderful story about a young girl who had no family and no one     1    (love) her.

One day,     2    (feel) very sad and lonely, she was walking through grassland when she noticed a small butterfly     3    (catch) in a thorn bush. The young girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of     4    (fly) away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy.

“In return for your wonderful kindness，” the good fairy said to the girl, “I will give you any wish that you would like     5    (get). ”The little girl thought for a moment and then replied, “I want to be happy.”

    6    (lean) toward her, the fairy whispered in her ear and then disappeared.

With the little girl     7    (grow) up, there was no one in the land happier than she was. Everyone wanted to make themselves     8    (tell) the secret of happiness by her. She would only smile and answer, “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl.”

When she was dying, the neighbors all gathered around her,     9    (fear) that her unbelievable secret of happiness would die with her. So they begged her     10    (tell) them what the good fairy said. The lovely old woman simply smiled and said, “She told me that everyone, no matter how old or young, how rich or poor, had need of me.”

The world-famous credit card company Mastercard is    1    （remove）its name from its company logo. It will follow the    2    （like）of Apple and Nike to have a logo     3    has a symbol only and no writing. Mastercard had    4    （traditional）used a logo that had overlapping yellow and red circles with the word "Mastercard"     5    （write）over the top. The company has decided    6    （drop） the word "Mastercard" and use just the two intersecting circles as a wordless logo. The new logo     7    （use）as the brand's symbol on credit cards and in stores，as well as on advertising，at sports and    8    events. The company's marketing officer said over 80 per cent of people spontaneously（本能地）recognized the new symbol    9    the word "Mastercard"，which means their company may rise to those like Apple whose logo uses only a symbol. According to what he said，the    10    （simple）but more modern logo represents Mastercard is developing into a digital era when people communicate with more signs and less words.

The giant panda, also known as panda bear     1     simply panda, is a bear native     2     south central China. In the past many years, the giant panda     3     (drive) out of the lowland areas where it once lived as a result of farming, deforestation and other development. Wild population estimates vary: one estimate     4    (show) that there are about 1,590 individuals living in the wild, while a 2006 study estimated that this figure could be as high as 2,000 to 3,000. Some reports also show that the number of giant pandas in the wild is on the rise.

The West first learned of the giant panda on March 11, 1869,     5     the French missionary(传教士) Armand David received a panda skin from a hunter. In 1936, Ruth Harkness became the first Westerner to bring a live giant panda named Su Lin to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.       6    (protect) the pandas, in 2012, Earthwatch Institute,     7     global nonprofit organization that teams volunteers with scientists to conduct important      8     (science) research,     9     (launch) a program called “On the Trail of Giant Panda”. This program, based in the Wolong National Nature Reserve, allows volunteers to work up close with pandas     10    (care) for in captivity (圈养), and help them gradually adapt to life in the wild.

Rainforests are thick forests in the hot parts of the world. They have a great effect     1     the world environment. For example, they play     2     part in controlling the climate. Without     3     (they), climate would change a lot. What’s more, many plants are of     4     (important) in medical value.

However, in the past hundred years, humans     5     (begin) destroying rainforests to search for land and mine. The     6     (hard) we harvest from them, the more carbon dioxide is released into the air,     7     affects the climate, environment and ourselves as a whole. Meanwhile, we are losing the opportunity       8     (explore) the medical use of the plants. With the population growing     9     (rapid), we indeed have an increasing need for     10     (resource), but we will suffer more in the end if we keep on doing so.

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them     1    （fall）into a hole．All the other frogs looked down．When they saw how deep     2    hole was，they told the two frogs that they would die soon．

At first, both of the two frogs didn't care their words and tried    3    best to jump out of the hole. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, because they thought there was no chance     4    (jump)out of such a deep hole. Finally, one of the two frogs believed these words and gave up. He fell down and died．

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again，the crowd of frogs shouted at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even    5    (hard)and finally succeeded. When he got out, the other frogs asked, "Didn't you hear us?"    6    their great surprise, the frog turned out to be a deaf. He thought they were helping him all the time, not    7    (stop) him．

This story teaches us two lessons: There is power of life and death in the tongue. Well-meant words can help people in trouble. But, evil words sometimes can kill them. Be careful of    8    you say．

Remember the power of words. Anyone can speak words     9    are likely to make people give up in difficult     10    (time).