请用适当的词完成下面的短文，并把所缺单词填写在答题卡指定的位置上。每个空只能填写一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。
One
Saturday afternoon, my daughter Alice asked me, "Are all people the same
even {#blank#}1{#/blank#} they are different in color?" I thought for a minute and then I
said, "I'll explain to you if we can make {#blank#}2{#/blank#}quick stop at the grocery
store. I have something interesting to show you." At the grocery store, we
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} some apples: red, green and yellow ones. Back home, I told Alice,
"It's time to answer your question." I put one apple of each kind on
the table. Then I looked at Alice, who had a strange look on her {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.
People are
like apples. They come in all different colors, shapes and sizes. Some of the
apples may not even look like the others. As I was talking, Alice was examining
each one {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Then, I took each of the apples and peeled {#blank#}6{#/blank#} with a
knife, placing them back on the table, but in a different place. "Okay,
Alice, tell me which is which." She said, "That's {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. They all
look the same now." "Take a bite of each one and taste. See if that
{#blank#}8{#/blank#}you decide which one is which." Smile came across her face,
"People are just like apples! They are all different, but once you take
{#blank#}9{#/blank#}the outside, they're pretty much the same on the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}."
She
totally got it. I didn't need to say or do anything else.
