This morning, my parents left on a long trip to Hawaii. They were as     1    (excite) as if it were their honeymoon.

When my parents married, they had only enough money for a three-day trip fifty miles from home. They made an     2    (agree) that each day they would put a dollar in a special metal box and save it for a honeymoon inHawai for their fiftieth anniversary (周年纪念).

Dad was a policeman, and Mum was a school teacher. They lived in a small house and did all     3    (they) own repairs. Raising five children was a challenge, and sometimes money was short,     4     no matter what emergeney came up, Dad would not let Mum take any money out of the “Hawaii account”. As     5     account grew, they put it in a savings account.

My parents     6    (be) always very much in love since the day they got married. I can remember Dad     7    (come) home and telling Mum, “I have a dollar in my pocket,” and she would smile at him and say, “I know how     8    (spend) it.” When each of us children married, Mum and Dad gave us a small metal box and told us their secret,     9     we found charming (有魅力的). All five of us are now saving for our dream honeymoon. Mum and Dad never told us how much money they had managed to save, but it must have been     10    (fair) large.

Once upon a time，there was a man from the State of Chu who loved his sword very much. One day，he was sitting in a boat preparing to cross a river     1     he accidentally dropped his sword into the water. With the ship moving fast on and the water running，the people on board reminded that he should go into the water     2    ( find) his     beloved sword back. The man felt in great anxiety too. However，he     3    (turn) a deaf ear to that and instead，he     4    (immediate) took out a knife and made a notch(刻痕) on the side of the boat     5     his dear sword fell. The people wondered why he did     6    . He said proudly the notch could help to get his sword back. Shortly after the ship’s     7    (arrive) at the shore，he entered the water just beneath the notch he made. Though having spent rather     8     long time， he returned empty-handed. Without doubt，he was laughed at in public and his story became   a well-known joke in China.

Today the idiom     9    (relate) to the story is used to describe a person who sticks to rigid rules without considering a changing environment     10     describe an action made pointless by changing circumstances.