1 . When I was ten, I lived in a neighborhood with a public library nearby, which opened in the evening. I enjoyed reading and after school I would ______ there ahead of its opening time. Without waiting for things there to be ______, I would just turn on the lights in kids’ section and start my reading.

The ______ didn’t look approachable. I used to hear him being ______ on people who had late returns or damaged the books, so I was afraid of him. Every day, fifteen minutes before the ______closing time, he would start announcements and ask people to ______. I didn’t have a library card and couldn’t take my half read books with me, simply putting the books back ______. The librarian must have silently ______ my long face, because he started ______ the closure only in other sections. This ______ me minutes to read.

For five years, I had read most of the books in the library. The librarian was still serious and ______ on words, but he would smile at me. If I missed going to the library, he would be ______ and ask why I had missed my routine (常规). Then one day the librarian asked me to ______ for my own borrower’s account and wrote my name on my first-ever library card.

After my graduation, I moved away and ______ that library. When I went to the library again, unfortunately, I was told that the librarian had retired and the library has smart cards instead of those with the librarian’s ______ !

Once upon a time, a father and his son were walking from one town     1     another. While they were traveling, they happened to pass by a river. They were tired and stopped there to     2    . Then the father asked his son to get him some     3     from the river.

Then the son walked to the riverside     4     he saw some women washing clothes there. Right at that moment, a bullock cart (牛车) started crossing the river. As a result, the water became very     5    . “I mustn’t take the dirty water to my father,” he thought. So he came back and said, “Look, Father. A bullock cart     6    crossing the river now, so the water is dirty and it can’t be drunk.” Father said nothing.

After a while, the son was asked to get some water     7     by his father. The water was still dirty, but he didn’t go back. He thought, “My father is so thirsty. I must take back     8     water this time, even though it will take me a long time.” Then he sat there, waiting     9     the water was clean. He collected some in a bowl and took it back.

“Oh, you are back at last. I have waited for you for almost half an hour,” Father said. After     10     the water, he looked up at his son and said, “Now, think about what made the water clean. You let it be and the water became clean on its own. It is also the same with your mind. When it is disturbed (打扰), just let it be, and it will calm down on its own.”

3 . 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.