There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (quick). So he sent them to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away in turn. The first son went{#blank#}2{#/blank#}winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (young) son in fall.

    When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe{#blank#}4{#/blank#} they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly and bent. The second son contradicted—it was{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cover) with green buds and full of promise. The third son said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful.  The last son {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(agree) with all of them. He said it was ripe and filled with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

    The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but one season in the{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(tree) life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree{#blank#}8{#/blank#}a person, by only one season,and that the essence of who they are—the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life—can only be judged at the end, when all the seasons are up.

    If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the hope of your spring, the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(beautiful) of your summer, fulfillment of your fall. Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy{#blank#}10{#/blank#} all the rest.

    Hemingway is one of the most famous writers and reporters in the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (twenty) century(世纪)in the world. He was born on July 21, 1899 and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (die) on July 2, 1961.

    When he was a small child, his mother taught him and her other children music and creativity(创造力)by {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(take)them to concerts, museums and theatres. And his father taught them to love nature and how {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (cook)in the open air and other life skills.

    In 1917, Hemingway finished high school and then worked as {#blank#}5{#/blank#}reporter. During World War I(第一次世界大战), he went to France, Italy and Spain. He fought in World War I and then moved {#blank#}6{#/blank#} Cuba Later, Cuba drove him out of the country. He had to go back to Idaho, the USA. There he had many health problems. And in 1961 he killed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (him) with a gun(#t)in his own house.

    In his amazing life, Hemingway wrote lots {#blank#}8{#/blank#} famous works. Most of them are still popular now. The Old Man and the Sea helped him {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (win) the Pulitzer Prizes(普利策奖) in 1953 and the Nobel Prize In Literature in 1954. His other famous {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(work) include The Sun Also Rises(《太阳照常升起》), A Farewell to Arms(《永别了，武器》) and so on.