2 . Once there lived a farmer in a small town. He made a living by ______ butter. Every day, his neighbour, a baker (糕点师), would buy a pound (磅) of butter. One day, the baker decided to weigh the butter to see ______ he was getting a pound. After the baker weighed it, he found that he wasn’t. ______ the baker took the farmer to the judge. The judge asked the ______ if he had any way to weigh the butter. The farmer ______, “I am so poor that I do not have enough money to buy ______ to weigh it, but I do have a kind of scale (天平) .” The judge asked, “Then ______ do you weigh the butter?” The farmer answered, “______ the baker started buying butter from me. I had bought a pound of ______ from him. So now every time I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it ______ the scale and give him the butter of the______ weight.”

Dishonesty can become a bad habit. Some people who are not ______ can lie without a red face. Those ______ lie so much do not even know what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact, they will hurt themselves by ______ own dishonest behaviour.

We ______ what we give to others in life. Whenever you take action, ask yourself this question, “Am I honest?”

Small changes can have large consequences. The idea came to be known as the “butterfly effect” which indicates that the beating of a butterfly’s wings might     1     (possible) cause a tornado. Tulenov Ruslan, a man from Kazakhstan, is     2     real-life example of this.

Ruslan, with the rare Rh-negative blood type     3     (refer) to as “panda blood”,     4     (donate) more than 6,000 milliliters of blood since he came to study in China in 2009. Having great     5     (admire) for China and its culture, Ruslan chose to learn Chinese at Hainan University when he was 17 years old.

This kind-hearted Kazakh man,     6     Chinese name is Lan Tian (blue sky), said it was his mother who had encouraged him many times to help others before he came to Hainan. In 2014, when a victim of a traffic accident urgently needed blood transfusion (输血), Ruslan left a comment to show his concern,     7     (add) “Lan Tian brother wishes to help you.”

Ruslan’s simple act of kindness won praise from the Chinese government. Now, Ruslan has the opportunity     8     (serve) at a provincial department in Hainan as a global media officer. “Lan Tian brother” takes     9     (impress) action to show his pure love to China and he never imagined that his rare blood type would become a symbol of friendship     10     China and his home country.