A farmer had a brother in town. His brother was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} good gardener and had the finest apple trees in the town.

    One day the gardener gave the farmer a good apple tree {#blank#}2{#/blank#} asked him to plant it. The workers {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (take) the tree to the farmer's house. The next morning the farmer began {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (think) about where he should plant it.

    "If I plant it {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the hill," he said to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (he), "the wind might blow down the delicious fruit before it is ripe (成熟的). If I plant it near the road, people {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (see) it and pick apples. But if I plant it near the door of my house, the children may pick them."

    At last he planted the tree behind his house. But it didn't bear any apples.

    He told the gardener about that {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (sad). The gardener laughed and said, "You have planted the tree where it {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (be) exposed to cold winds, and it can't get the sun there. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} could you get flowers and fruit? You have planted the tree with a greedy (贪婪的) heart and how could you get a good harvest?"

    Why do people wear clothes? "To make me warm and to cover my body" will {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (probable) be the answer. That's why people wear clothes, but people also want to look attractive and appear {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (success) to others.

    If people only wore clothes for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothes would be simple and cheap. In many countries, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, clothes are sometimes very expensive. The main reason for that {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) not the cost of the materials or the cost of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (make) clothes. The clothes are expensive because they are fashionable.

    Successful businessmen, for example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. Sometimes they pay thousands of dollars {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a suit and several hundred dollars for {#blank#}7{#/blank#} tie. It's still just a suit and a tie, but they pay these prices because of the famous designer.

    Fashion is changing. It means that people {#blank#}8{#/blank#} want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few months, even if last {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (month) clothes have been worn only once or {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (two). Some people have wardrobes (衣柜) full of clothes, but some of these clothes have never been worn. These clothes are no longer in fashion though they are still new.