1 . In a far-away place, there was a village. The village was ____ in potatoes than anywhere else in the country. At the end of every growing season, ____. potatoes were dug out of the ground, and ready for market. In each home, men and women would ____ divide the potatoes into three groups, large, medium and small.

One year, there was a young man ____ received his share of the potatoes. As the other villagers ____, he walked around the village laughing and talking. ____ the villagers thought he was lazy, and they worried that this man would never get ____ potatoes ready in time. When it was time for the villagers ____ to market, they were greatly surprised to find that the man’s potatoes ____ perfectly into three groups.

After ____ the man how he did it, they understood he was not lazy, ____ very clever. He had put all his potatoes in a cart (马车) and pulled it along the village’s rough dirt road. As the cart moved up and down over the road, the potatoes moved ____. The small potatoes moved to the bottom, the larger potatoes rose to the top and the medium potatoes rested ____ the middle.

Life ____ like this too. The rough roads we travel along can also ____ us.