【推荐2】No visitors were left in the museum then, and John was walking around to check if everything was all right. ________ he saw a beautiful painting lying on the floor. John ________ and gave it to the director of the museum.

The director called several museums to check if it was a stolen painting, ________ no one came to take it away. So the director decided to hang it. ________ said it was beautiful and had a very deep meaning. The director was ________ to have such a painting in his museum and congratulated John on his discovery.

Some weeks later a woman and her ________ came to the museum. While they were looking at that painting, the little boy began to ________. The director went over and asked what was making him so sad.

The child pointed to ________ and said, “That’s my painting and I want it back.”

“Yes,” said his mother. “He ________ it on the floor a few weeks ago. If you look carefully, you can see the name on the painting.” The director ________ believe his ears when he heard the truth.

Suri was a sweet boy and he was fond of elephants. However, he never had a(n) _________ to see real elephants. All those he saw were only on televisions. _________, when he was 25 years old, he got a chance to join a club of wildlife lovers. He asked whether they would take him to _________ the elephants. And they said yes.

As they _________ a beautiful village, one from the team said that the village had more than 100 elephants and Suri could enjoy the whole day. He was _________ to see the elephants and screamed（尖叫）happily.

After spending two to three _________ just seeing the elephants, Suri was surprised. He found those elephants were tied (系，绑) by _________ ropes. He knew the strength of elephants, but _________ can they be tied by such thin ropes? The trainer replied, “We used to tie them with a strong rope when they were babies. A few elephants would try to break the rope, _________ we could not set them free. So as they grew, they developed a wrong belief（信念）that the small and thin ropes were too strong to break, so they continued to get tied by their belief.”

In __________ lives, we sometimes may be held back by the mistakes we have experienced in the past just like the elephants, but we should have the courage to try to break them and live a free life.