Once, a circle (圆）lost a piece of its own.

The circle felt the world was dark. It wanted to be _______, so it went around here and there to look for its missing(缺失的)_______. But because it was not a circle any more, it couldn’t roll(滚）_______ . It had enough time to enjoy the flowers and the sunshine. It could even _______ with the birds and the butterflies along the way. It found lots of _______ pieces, but no one matched. _______ it left them all by the side of the road and kept looking for its right piece.

Then one day the circle found a piece and the piece_______ it well. The circle put the piece into its body. Now it was a whole circle with nothing lost. It was so happy and began to roll. It could roll very fast, but it rolled _______ fast to see the flowers or say hello to the birds and the butterflies. The world was quite different when it rolled so quickly! It felt very_______ and it stopped. It decided to leave the piece by the side of the road.

Sometimes we needn’t ________ about what we lose. Maybe losing is a good thing.

Long long ago, in a small village, there was a man named Jacob. He thought he was the _______ man in the world. One day he sold his well to a farmer. When the farmer went to get the _______ from that well happily, Jacob didn’t _______ him to get the water from it. He said, “Though the water in the well is _______ and clear, I sold you the well, not the water.”

The farmer became very sad but he could do _______. He had to come to the emperor’s palace. He _______ everything to the emperor and asked him for help.

The emperor _______ Birbal and handed over this case to him. Birbal was a very young judge. He was rich in _______. He enjoyed thinking about ideas every day. He called up Jacob. Birbal asked. “Why don’t you let the _______ use the water of the well? You have sold the well to him!” Jacob replied, “I ________ sold the well to him, not the water. He has no right to get the water.”

Then Birbal smiled and said, “Good, but look, ________ you have sold the well to this farmer, you stick to ________ that the water is yours, then you have no right to keep your water in the farmer’s well. You have ________ choices. Either you pay rent (租) to the farmer to keep your water in his well, or you take ________ out of his well at once.”

Jacob understood that his ________ had failed. Birbal beat him perfectly.

Don’t try to cheat. You will end up paying for it no matter how smart you think you are.

【推荐3】A king had a close friend. The friend had a (an) ______. Whatever happened in his life, he always said, “This is good!”

One day the king and his friend went to hunt. The friend shot the king by accident. As a result, the king lost one of his ______. The friend said as usual, “This is good!”

“No, this is not good!” the king become ______ and send his friend to prison.

About a year later, the king was hunting in a ______ place. Cannibals (食人族) caught him. They tied him up and were going to set fire to him. But when they found that the king lost a finger, they let him go. They ______ ate anyone that was less than whole.

As he returned home, he ______ his friend. He went to the prison at once to speak with the friend. “You were right,” he said. “It was ______ that I lost my finger.” Then he ______ the friend what happened to him. “I am very ______ for sending you to prison for so long. It was very bad of me to do this.”

“No,” his friend answered. “This is good!”

“What do you ______? How could it be good that I send you to prison for a year?”

“If I weren’t in prison, I would have been with you.”