1 . Once there was a little bird that lived in the old times. When a sage (智者) was thrown into a ________ by his enemy, the little bird saw what happened and decided to put it out to ________ the sage. The little bird ________ bringing a few drops of water in his ________ mouth from the nearby river. The larger birds in the tree ________ and laughed at the little bird, saying, “Why are you carrying the ________?”
The little bird said, “To put out the fire around the sage.” The larger birds continued ________, “How could you put out such a huge fire with so little water? It is ________.”
Do you know what the little bird ________? “I don’t know whether I will manage to put out the fire or not but I know what I have ________ is to stop the fire.” Hearing the answer, all the larger birds were ________ .
We often think that our effort is the factor responsible for our ________ . This is a wrong way of ________. If we believe we can succeed, we shall succeed. Our ________ is just a sacrifice (牺牲) that we are willing to make. ________, the little bird knew that with a few drops of water the fire would not be put out but it was his ________ to do whatever he could to achieve this goal.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that is ________. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your ________ or may not be in your time, but that doesn’t ________you stop doing the right thing. You may never know ________ results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
1. A.room | B.fire | C.river | D.plane |
2. A.remind | B.stop | C.help | D.surprise |
3. A.started | B.allowed | C.suggested | D.imagined |
4. A.long | B.tiny | C.strong | D.beautiful |
5. A.refused | B.understood | C.heard | D.watched |
6. A.cup | B.present | C.water | D.fruit |
7. A.warning | B.laughing | C.teaching | D.complaining |
8. A.unnecessary | B.dangerous | C.useless | D.possible |
9. A.accepted | B.achieved | C.performed | D.replied |
10. A.done | B.finished | C.collected | D.proved |
11. A.afraid | B.silent | C.angry | D.nervous |
12. A.success | B.growth | C.study | D.career |
13. A.planning | B.working | C.explaining | D.thinking |
14. A.progress | B.fortune | C.effort | D.change |
15. A.Similarly | B.Strangely | C.Suddenly | D.Generally |
16. A.turn | B.responsibility | C.promise | D.fault |
17. A.actual | B.easy | C.exact | D.important |
18. A.secret | B.order | C.power | D.memory |
19. A.mean | B.protect | C.report | D.mention |
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