Ravi loved to talk to his grandma，who lived in India. Grandma had grown up in a small village called Tambaram and had lived there her whole life. Sometimes Ravi got to visit her with his mom and dad and his sisters. Grandma would make him tea and tell him{#blank#}1{#/blank#}about her childhood.

    When Ravi was younger，Grandma would often come to visit him in Texas. But now it was much{#blank#}2{#/blank#}for her to travel，So She stayed at home. He{#blank#}3{#/blank#}her visits. Smetimes she would call{#blank#}4{#/blank#}the phone. Grandma always called late at night. Dad explained to Ravi that when it was nighttime in Texas, it was daytime in India. Ravi loved{#blank#}5{#/blank#}her voice. He would always ask Grandma if she would make him a cup of tea. She would always laugh and gay，“Ravi sweetheart, I can send you my voice,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}not my tea.

    About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very {#blank#}1{#/blank#} from the other villages and towns. They had few {#blank#}2{#/blank#} and none of them left the village. Of course there was neither electricity(电) nor gas(煤气) there.

    Once a writer{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the village. The backwardness(落后) of the village surprised him. He decided {#blank#}4{#/blank#} about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home and village to the people. Several months {#blank#}5{#/blank#} he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him how he had enjoyed {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in the city.

    “Everything is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} in London,” the old man said, “I've {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to many good places and eaten all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was I could not {#blank#}9{#/blank#} at night. ”

    “What happened to you?” his wife asked.

    “The{#blank#}10{#/blank#}was on in my bedroom all the time.”

    “Why not blow it out, then?”

    “I tried, but it was inside a little glass bottle.”

    Once upon a time there was a man called Yue Yangzi in Henan who had a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}wife.

    One day, Yue picked up a piece of gold. Gladly, he rushed hack home to show it to his wife. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, his wife said, " I hear that a good man doesn't drink the water of Dao Spring (盗泉) and wouldn't pick up the things others lost. He would rather die {#blank#}3{#/blank#}food given by the people who disrespect him." Yue was very ashamed after hearing wife's words and {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the gold off into the fields and went to study in a far place.

    One year later, Yue came back home. His wife asked him the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}for his return.

    Yue said, "I was homesick and miss you very much."

    Hearing this, his wife took up a pair of scissors and walked to the loom (织布机), saying,

    "To make cloth, I weave (织) the cloth with one after {#blank#}6{#/blank#}silk thread inch by inch. If I cut the cloth with the scissors, all my efforts are {#blank#}7{#/blank#} Studying is also like this. You should get knowledge every day {#blank#}8{#/blank#}stopping." 

    Yue Yangzi was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}moved by his wife's words. Then he went back to his studies. This story reminds us {#blank#}10{#/blank#}to give up halfway.