1 . A king once went to a master (大师). He wanted to become more powerful than other ______ kings. He sat in front of the master and ______ telling him the purpose of his visit. The master listened ______ to the king.

He then told the king to go to the ______ where a rose plant and a cypress (柏树) plant were growing side by side. He told the king, “They are your teachers. They can teach you what you want to ______ .”

The king went into the garden, and ______ the two plants but could not understand what he could learn from them. He went back to the master and asked, “What do you ______, master? I am not able to understand what and how these plants will teach me.”

The master took the king to the plants and ______, “This cypress plant has been next to the rose plant for so many years. Never once has it wanted to become a rose plant. ______, the rose plant has never wanted to become a cypress plant. If man had been the cypress plant, he would have compared himself with the rose and felt jealous (忌妒的) at the ______ that the beautiful rose plant was getting from all the people. ______, if man were the rose plant, he would have _______the cypress plant enviously (羡慕地) thinking how ______ the plant was without the trouble of being disturbed by people all day! Both of the plants grew very well because they ______ all their energy for their own ______ instead of using it to compete with the other.”