An 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old son. Suddenly a crow (乌鸦) landed on their window.
The father asked his son, “What is this?” The son replied, “This is a crow.”
After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, “What is this?” The son said, “Father, I told you just now. It’s a crow.”
After a little while, the father asked his son the same question for third time, “What is this?” This time, the son was irritated (生气) and said to his father in a low and cold tone, “It’s a crow, a crow.”
After a moment, the father yet again asked his son for the fourth time, “What is this?” This time his son shouted in his father, “Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? I have told you already, ‘It’s a crow’. Are you not able to understand this?”
A minute later the father went to his room and came back with an old tattered(破旧的) diary, which he had kept since his son was born. On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page. When the read it, the following words were written in the diary:
“Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa when a crow suddenly landed on the window edge. My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied him 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question. I didn’t at all feel annoyed, but instead felt a deep affection for my innocent son.”
注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右;2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好;
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After reading the diary,the son was in tears and began to reflect on the days when he used to sit together with his father.
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Feeling ashamed, the son got down on his knees before his father.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 . Things You Should Stop Doing to Be Successful
Are you a happy person？ How often do you think of reasons why everyone around you is successful though they are not better than you in general? What do you do wrong? Here are some things you should stop doing to be successful.
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Different people may interpret “success” in different ways: some of them measure it in money, and other ones in positive changes to people around them and the world in general.
•Do not believe anything without questioning it.
•Do not worry about all unpredictable things that may happen to you.
If you want to be successful, stop thinking about everything that may happen to you.
•Do not care about what other people think of you.
| A．Do not wait for the right time" to do anything. |
| B．Do not let others decide what success" is for you. |
| C．Successful people do not just accept any new information to be true. |
| D．As far as we all know, it's impossible to please all the people who surround us. |
| E．Try to feel comfortable with the reality and accept the fact that your future can’t be predicted. |
| F．If you want to be successful, do not let others force their Interpretation of success on you. |
| G．Successful people never ignore or avoid problems, no matter how big and awful they seem. |
