Sometimes, I doubt (怀疑) if there is any love between my parents. They ______ say: “I love you.” For them, it’s really difficult to say. Every day they are ______ trying to make money. They don’t act in the romantic (浪漫的) way that I read in books and I see on TV.

One day, my mother was sewing (缝) a ______.

I sat down beside her quietly.

“Mom, I have a ______ to ask you,” I said after a short time.

“What?” she replied, ______ doing her work.

“Is there love ______ you and Dad?” I asked her.

She didn’t answer and still ______. I was worried ______ I thought I had made her unhappy. After some time, she said to me with a smile, “Susan, look at this thread (线),” she said. “Sometimes it appears, but most of it ______ in the quilt. It makes the quilt strong. ______ life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. You can hardly see it anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is ______.”

The next spring, my father suddenly got very sick. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. After they ______, she helped my father walk slowly down the road every day. To my surprise, Father was weak but really very ______.

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don’t ______ me,” he said. “I just like walking with your mom.”

Once, I thought love meant flowers and gifts. Now, I know that love is just a ______ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm...

Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They’re both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor (拖拉机). Bad luck! A lot of apples have already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price. They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

“I can’t understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)” Uncle Li asked one day.

“The tractor was too small” Uncle Wang said without thinking. “We’ll carry more apples on a truck next time!”

“I agree!” said Uncle Li. “How foolish (傻的) we were!”

①When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.

②People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems blurry (=unclear). Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near-sighted.

③People who are far-sighted(远视) suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.

④Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

⑤Having two good eyes is important for judging(判断) distances(距离). Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle. To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object’s relation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.

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