This story happened three years ago. Jack was an eight-year-old boy at that time. He was a good pupil. He was good at every subject at school. But he could not get up early. He often slept until nine or ten o'clock in the morning. So he was often late for school.

    Jack's mother didn't want him to be late for school again. So she bought him a clock. She said to him,“ You must get up when you hear the clock ring.”

    “Yes, Mum.” said Jack. After that Jack got up at twenty to seven when he heard the clock ring.

    One day his mother forgot to make the clock ring at the usual time. And the next morning Jack didn't get up. It was six forty-two at that moment. It was time for breakfast. Mother went to see him. Jack was still in bed and his eyes were open.

    “Why didn't you get up?” Mother was angry.

    “You told me to get up when I heard the clock ring. So I am waiting for the bell.”

    “Mum, is the clock still sleeping?” Jack asked.

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In a temple, a little monk（和尚） was complaining（抱怨） to an old monk, "Master, no matter what I do, why do I always meet with more difficulties than others and pay more? Please tell me, am I born with this kind of 1 life?"

The old monk led the little monk to the 2 field outside the temple. They saw that a little road 3 the field into two. In both of the pieces, some carrots were grown. The old monk told him that the carrots were planted at different times. The carrots in one piece were planted 4 than those in the other piece.

The old monk asked the little monk to pull up a carrot from the first field. The little monk did it 5 . However, the carrot was very small.

Then the old monk asked the little monk to pull up another carrot from the other field. The little monk did it with some 6 this time. At last, he pulled the carrot up with hard work. They could see clearly that the carrot had grown very long and 7 .

The old monk 8 the two carrots on the ground, and said to the little monk, "So you can see now. When you use the energy for pulling up the carrots differently, what you get is 9 . This is like the difficulties you meet with in life. You pay more, but what you 10 will also be greater and more. So don't just complain about your difficulties, but also see what you can get from getting over them."