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    A young man once went to buy a pair of pants. When he got home, he went upstairs(上楼) to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were two inches(英寸) long.

    Then he came out of his room to see his mother and his two sisters. They were washing something in the kitchen. “These new pants are too long, they need to be shortened(缩短) about two inches. Would one of you like to do this for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything. The mother went upstairs after she had finished washing and shortened the pants two inches. But she didn't tell her daughters about it.

    Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother's pants. So she went upstairs without saying to anyone, and shortened the pants two inches.

    The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she also remembered what her brother had said. So she ran upstairs, and took two inches off the legs of the new pants.

    About five hundred years ago, an earthquake happened in a small village. Luckily for them, nothing was destroyed and no one was hurt. But a huge stone fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.

    When the earthquake stopped, many people came to the road and saw the stone. Some of the strongest men tried to lift the stone out of the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it but failed. They tried to pull it with ropes but nothing worked.

    "Well," they said sadly, "there's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the way."

    At this time a boy about 12 years old said, "I think I can help you to move the stone away."

    "You?" they shouted. "What are you talking about?" The men all laughed at the boy.

    The next morning, some people came into the road. One of them shouted, "The stone is gone." More people ran out to see what had happened. It was true. The stone wasn't on the road any longer. It wasn't even near the road.

    The boy walked over to where the stone had been and said, "I buried it."

    The people looked rather surprised. "You see," he said, "I dug a deep hole next to the stone and I dug a small incline (斜坡) up to the stone and the stone rolled (滚) down into the hole itself. Then I covered it with earth."

    The villagers shouted, "Clever boy! Clever boy!" And some of them said, "Why didn't we think out this good idea?"

    Mr. King goes to a dinner party. He is wearing(穿)old clothes. He comes into the room. But people in the room don't look at him. They don't ask him to sit at the table.

    Mr. King goes home and puts on(穿)his good clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and smiles(微笑)at him. They give(给)him very good food to eat.

    Mr. King takes off(脱下)his coat, and puts it in the food and says, “Eat, coat!”

    The other people ask, “What are you doing?”

    He answers, “I'm asking my coat to eat food. I am wearing my old clothes. You don't look at me. You don't  ask me to sit down. Now I'm in these clothes. And you give me very good food. Now I see, you give the food to my clothes, not to me!”

Wang Fa is from Yunnan Province. In late August,2022, the 14- year- old boy. won the men's singles under 14 years old at a tennis junior tour in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.

According to him, tennis has changed his life. Wang was among the first group of kids learning to play tennis in Cangyuan. When he was eight, his coach Zhang Xiaohong chose him.

At that time, he didn't know what tennis was. His parents didn't want him to learn tennis at first because they couldn't pay for it. Zhang offered to teach him for free because he thought it would be a waste(浪费) not to train such a talent.

The first time Wang and his friends left the mountains, they were thrilled. However, several days later, some of them wanted to return home. To comfort(安慰) them, Zhang offered them delicious food and toys.

Every day, the children got up at 6:30 am, practised all day and took classes at night. The team travelled to cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu for competitions. Wang's first competition was in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.

"I was nervous, because the outside world was so different from my home," he said." But tennis helped me make more friends and get a better education."

On camera, Wang looked confident. He said he wanted to be a professional(专业的) tennis player.