【推荐2】Once upon a time, there was a young man called Ma Liang. He liked drawing and drew pictures everywhere. One night, he had a _____. In the dream, an old man gave him a magic paintbrush (神奇的画笔) and asked him to use it to help poor people. When he _____ he found the magic paint-brush in his hand.

From that day on, he _____ the paintbrush to help poor people. When he saw some poor people had no _____ to use in the field, he drew a river and the river came to life. When he saw it was _____ for people to till the land (犁地), he drew a cow and the cow came to life. Whenever he saw the people’s problems, he would _____ use his magic paintbrush to provide help.

Day by day, many people knew about the magic paintbrush. But a few days later, a _____ man heard about the magic paintbrush. He caught Ma Liang and asked Ma Liang to draw a tree full of money for him. Ma Liang _____. He drew a sea first. Then he drew a tree full of money on an island in the center of the sea. Finally, he drew a big _____. Ma Liang drew a large wave and it destroyed (摧毁) the ship when the _____ man traveled to the island.

After that, Ma Liang kept on helping the poor people, so the magic paintbrush was known by everyone.

【推荐3】There was once a king. He had a great palace ________ a wonderful garden. In the garden, there lived all kinds of animals. All of them enjoyed ________ there. There ________ only one thing that the king didn’t like in the garden: an old tree in the centre of the garden. It was so ________ and dry. This made the king so angry that he finally asked some people ________ it down and turned the place into a swimming pool. However, the animals left the garden. Without the animals, the garden was not beautiful. The king was sad, but he ________ know what happened.

A young man went to the king, and said he ________ explain what happened. “This was because you cut the old tree down,” said ________ young man. “There were many moths in the tree. Birds needed the moths to eat and then they produced waste for plants to grow. The plants then attracted many other animals to your garden. ________ your garden became very beautiful. But when you cut the tree down, the animals had to leave.”

“I’m afraid it will ________ many years to finish it,” said the young man. The king was sad, but all he could do was just wait.