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An
old man went to India. When he got there, he saw some fruit for sale, but most
of it was very cheap. The {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (cheap) thing has a basket of red fruit.
"How
much per kilo?" the old man {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (ask).
"Two
rupees (卢比)," the shopkeeper
answered. Two rupees in India is almost nothing, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the old man bought a
whole kilogram and started eating it.
However,
as soon as he started eating, his mouth began {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (burn), his eyes began
to water, and his whole face became as red {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the fruit. As he coughed
and struggled to breathe, he jumped up and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, screaming: "Ah! Ah! Ah!"
And
yet he continued to eat the fruit. Some people who were looking at him shook
their {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (head) and said, "You are crazy! Those are chili peppers (辣椒)!You can't just eat them
by the handful!"
The
old man said to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (he),"I paid for them, so I must eat them."
This
old man seemed pretty stupid. But are we so much smarter? All of us have {#blank#}9{#/blank#}
(spend) money and time on something-maybe a relationship, or a business, or a
job-and sometimes, even if we know there's no hope that things will change, we
still continue with it.
What
we can learn {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the old man is this: if you've lost a lot over something
that doesn't work, let it go and move on. It's better than continuing to lose.
