“What are you busy with yourself, Mother?” The girl of less than six years old asked her mother{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(curiosity). “{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(make) dinner for the neighbor's aunt.”

    “ Why?” “{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the other day the aunt {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (lose) her daughter and is so sad now. We must take good care of her these days.”“ Why need our care?” “ Because{#blank#}5{#/blank#}then on the aunt can't do{#blank#}6{#/blank#}they like to along with her daughter. She is very pitiful. In her distress, making dinners and doing chores are also becoming so difficult. My dear, can you help Mother hit an idea to help the aunt in other ways?” At her mother's proposal, the girl thought for a long while. All of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} sudden, she went to the neighbor and knocked at the door.

    The neighbor with a look of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(tired) opened the door. “What can I do for you?” asked the neighbor. “I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hear) my mother say you're very distressed for losing your daughter...” The girl timidly handed the band-aid tightly {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(hold) in her hand to the neighbor.

    The neighbor suddenly choked with sobs, her tears gushing from her eyes. She hugged the girl and said, “ Thank you. This band-aid will cure my wound.”

    In many people's opinion, man's first real invention,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}is also one of the most important inventions in history, is the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend{#blank#}2{#/blank#}it. The wheel is the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(simple) yet perhaps the most remarkable of all{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(invention) because there are no wheels in nature.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, then, did man come to invent the wheel? Perhaps some early hunters found that the body of {#blank#}6{#/blank#}heavy animal could be rolled through the forest on logs (圆木) more{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(easy) than they could carry it. However, the logs{#blank#}8{#/blank#}them) weigh a lot.

    It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick. This would roll along just {#blank#}9{#/blank#}the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(handle). Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.

    In recent years, learning Chinese{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(become) popular among people around the world. Last month, I received an email from my friend Jack in Canada. He said he was enthusiastic about China, and asked me to find him some books which {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (intend) for Chinese beginners, I was pleased to do such a favor. So I went from one bookstore to another,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (hope) to find something suitable for him. Finally I selected a set of Chinese textbooks among a variety of similar ones.

    Once a group of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (high) successful engineers got together to visit their old university professor, Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. While they were {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (talk), the professor went and prepared coffee in the kitchen. Then back with a pot of coffee and cups {#blank#}3{#/blank#} different kinds, some ordinary-looking, some expensive, some delicate, the professor told them to help {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(they) to hot coffee. When they all had a cup of coffee in their hands, he said, "If you noticed, all the nice-looking expensive cups {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(take)up, leaving behind the plain and cheap-looking ones. While it's normal for you to choose the best for yourselves, that's the source of your problems and stress. In {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(real), the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. What mattered most was coffee, not the cup, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} you went for the best cups directly and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (bad) still, you began eyeing each other's cups. If life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They're just tools {#blank#}9{#/blank#} hold and contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes by {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (concentrate) only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

    Don't let the cups drive you, and enjoy the coffee instead.