【推荐1】One day, a boy had a fight with one of his classmates. Then he went to his _______ and told him his story angrily. “He is really bad,” the boy said, “and I _______ him.”

The grandfather said, “_______ me tell you a story. When I was a boy, I sometimes also hated others for what they did…”

As the boy _______ carefully, the grandfather went on, “There are always two tigers inside my heart. One is _______ and kind. He gets on well _______ everything around him. But _______ is bad and unfriendly. Even the smallest thing will make him angry. He _______ with everyone all the time, and for no reason. He can’t think carefully _______ he always hates others. It is difficult to live with these two tigers inside my heart. They both try to control (控制) me.”

The boy looked into his grandfather’s ________ and asked, “Which tiger always controls you, Grandfather?”

The old man said slowly and seriously, “The one that I feed. I always feed the good and kind tiger, so I never hate others and seldom (很少) get angry now.”

A boy guarded the barrels (木桶) in his father’s winery (葡萄酒厂). Every morning, his father gave him a ________ of brushing the barrels and putting them in order, but the wind blew the barrels here and there overnight.

The boy was so ________ that he wrote a letter to the wind, “Please don’t blow down my barrels.” After seeing that, his father asked the boy with a smile, “Can the wind read your ________?” The little boy said, “I don’t know. I have no ________ but to make this request (请求).”

The next morning, when the little boy ran to ________ the barrels, he found that the barrels were blown here and there again. The little boy felt very unhappy and cried. His father came and said ________, “Son, don’t be sad. We may have no way to deal with the ________, but we may have ways for you, so we can have our own ways to ________ the wind.” Then the little boy ________ his tears and thought over and over. Finally, he thought of an idea. He filled the ________ barrels with water. After that, he went home worriedly.

The third morning, the little boy ________ his clothes in a hurry and ran out. He was ________ to find the barrels were placed in good order. The little boy smiled happily and told his father, “It’s a very ________ way, that is, to make the barrels heavier.” The little boy’s father smiled and ________ his head.

We can’t change many things in the world, but we can change ourselves. To add you the ________ is the only way not to be knocked over.

A man had four sons who never stopped fighting with one another. He was always telling them how much _________ life would be if they worked together, but they took no notice of his words. One day he decided to show them what he _________.

He called all the sons together and put a bundle of _________ on the floor in front of them. The man asked the youngest son, “Can you break that?”

“Of course, it’s so easy.” The boy answered _________ and put his knee on the bundle. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not break the bundle. Seeing that he _________, other boys laughed at him.

The father asked each son in _________ to try to break the bundle, but none of them could do it.

Then he untied the string（绳子）and scattered（散开）the chopsticks.

“Now try it again,” he said. This time the boys broke the chopsticks easily with their hands. All of them were surprised and _________ why this had happened.

“Do you see what I mean?” asked the father. “If you stand together, no one can hurt you. If you all _________ one another the whole time and stick to your own opinions, the _________ will destroy you.”

His sons realized how important working together was from this __________ lesson. From then on, they stopped fighting and stuck together.

【推荐1】Mr and Mrs Wilson and their children were going to begin their holiday, and they _______ be at the airport at 11:40 in the morning. “It will take us half an hour to get there in the car.” Mr Wilson said. “So we must start _______ eleven o’clock. Don’t be late.”

At ten minutes to eleven, they were busy doing things, _______ Mrs Wilson weren’t. She was sitting quietly in a chair in the garden, _______ the sun.

Her husband and children were very surprised. _______ wasn’t she busy? Mrs Wilson answered, “Well, before I went to bed last night, I moved all our clocks and watches ahead (提前) twenty minutes. So now we can go to the airport quietly. Don’t worry, then.”

The dry and hot season-August came again! We had not seen ________ in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving ________. If we didn’t see some rain soon we would lose everything.

I was cooking in the ________ when I saw my six-year-old son, Tony, walking toward the ________. He was obviously walking with great ________. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house.

Moments later, however, he was once again walking toward the woods.He kept the ________ for over an hour walking ________ to the woods, then running back to the house. Finally, I was so ________ that I went out of the house and ________ him on his journey.

He was cupping both ________ in front of him as he walked; being very careful not to spill the water he held in them. Branches and thorns (荆棘) slapped his little face but he did not try to ________ them. As I came close to him, I saw the most amazing scene.

Several large ________ appeared threatening (威胁) in front of him. But Tony walked right up to them. I almost ________ for him to get away. And I saw a baby deer lying on the ground, obviously suffering (遭难) from heavy loss of water, ________ its head to drink the water cupped in my beautiful boy’s hands.

I stood on the edge of the woods watching the most beautiful ________ working so hard to save a life. As my tears began to hit the ground, they were suddenly joined by other drops...and more drops...and more.