Mrs. Black has have 1 of trouble with her skin, 2 she goes to see her doctor about it. The doctor can't find 3 wrong with her. But he gives her some tests.

    Mrs. Black calls the doctor the next day and asks about the tests·

    The doctor says: "No problem, but l will 4 you a list of things you can't eat·"

    Mrs. Black writes all the things down on 5. She puts the paper 6 the telephone. Then she goes 7. Two hours 8, she comes back. Her husband is waiting for her. "Look! Everything 9 for you, my dear." He says.

    "But you don't know 10 I need," Mrs. Black says.

    "Don't you remember your list beside the telephone, my dear?" Mrs·Black says·

    An old carpenter(木匠) was ready to retire. His boss was 1 to see the good worker go. He asked the carpenter 2 he could build just one more house. The carpenter said yes, 3 his mind was not on his work any more.

    He used poor materials and worked on the house 4 . When the carpenter finished his work, the boss 5 the front-door key to him, "This is your house," he said, "A 6 for you."

    What a surprise! What a 7 ! If he had known he was building his 8  house, he would have done it differently. Now he had to live in the house he had poorly built.

    9 it is with us. Sometimes we build our 10 carelessly. At important points we do not try our best. Then with a shame we look at the situation we have 11 . We find that we are now living in the house we have poorly built. But we don't have a 12 to make it all over again.

    Think of 13 as the carpenter. Think about your life. Build it 14 . It is the only life you will ever build because life is a do-it-yourself project.

    Your life today is the 15 of your attitudes and choices you made in the past. Your life tomorrow will be that of your attitudes and choices you make today.

    About five hundred years ago, an earthquake (地震) happened in a small village. Luckily for them, nothing was destroyed (毁坏) 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?"

    When Levi Strauss arrived in the United States from Bavaria, he was only seven teen, poor and knew very1English. Like most immigrants(移民) , he was looking for a better life. So, he went to California to2gold in 1849.3he planned to open a shop in San Francisco, he took many goods with him, included a large4of canvas(大量帆布), He hoped to sell it, However, business was not5he had expected. One day, when he sat in cafe in a small town, he had an idea He saw a man with a hole in the leg of his trousers and suddenly realized what Californians needed for the hard and rough work they were doing-good, 6trousers.

    Sometime in the1, scientists will develop knowledge 2.

    One day, a student needs help with his3and goes to the4. He asks the doctor what kind of knowledge pills he sells.

    The doctor says, "Here's a pill5English literature.(文学)

    The student takes the pill, swallows(吞咽) it, and suddenly knows6 about English literature.

    "What else do you 7?" the student asks.

    "Well, I have pills for 8, biology and world history, "the doctor says.

    The student asks for all of them. He takes them all and suddenly becomes 9at all three subjects.

    Then the student asks, "Do you have a pill for math?"

    The doctor says, "10just a minute." He goes back into the storeroom, 11 back a pill and puts it before him. The pill is12and heavy.

    "I have to13that huge pill for math? That's too big! The student says 14.

    The doctor says, "Well, you know, math is always a little15to swallow.