One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, "Look! There's a horseshoe 1 the ground. Pick it up and put it in your bag." Thomas said, "It wastes my time." His father said 2 but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer 3 the horseshoe and with the money he bought some strawberries.
The father and the son went on walking. The sun was well up in the 4. They soon drank up their water, and there wasn't a house or even a tree for them to 5. Thomas felt too6 to walk on. At this time, his father gave Thomas a strawberry 7 he quickly ate it. After a while, his father gave him 8 strawberry and once again, his son lost no time in putting it in his mouth.
And so they9. The old farmer gave the strawberries and the son ate them. When Thomas had eaten up all the strawberries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you picked up that horseshoe, you would have your own strawberries 10. Always remember the lesson: if you don't worry about the little things, you'll find it difficult to do the great things."
Two boys decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a man asked what they were doing. “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the Earth, ”one of the boys said happily.
The man began to laugh and told them not to do that because he thought that digging a hole all the way through the earth was impossible. After a while, one of the boys picked up a jar（罐子）full of spiders（蜘蛛）, worms（幼虫）, and all kinds of insects（昆虫）. He removed the cover and showed the wonderful things to the man. Then he said confidently. “Even if we can't dig all the way through the Earth, look at what we found along the way!”
Their goal was far too big, but it did cause them to dig and cause them to move in the direction they had chosen.
But not every goal will be fully finished. Not every job will end successfully. Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. But when you have a goal, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at the wonderful things which have come into my life because I tried to do something!”It is the joy（快乐）you find in the journey, which is the most important.
One day at the end of the class, a wise teacher told each of her students to bring a plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school.
The next day she told her students, “From today on, for every person you don't like in your lives, you can choose a potato, write the person's name and the date on it and then put it in the plastic bag.”Day after day, some of the students'bags were very heavy. They were then told to carry this bag with them everywhere they went for a week. They would put it inside their quilts at night, on the seats when sitting in a car or on a bus, and next to their desks at school. The days carrying the bag around with them made students get to know what a weight they were carrying in their minds. They had to pay attention to it all the time so that they wouldn't forget it. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and smell nasty(恶心的). They all tried to get rid of them.
Too often we think of tolerance(宽容) as a gift to other people, and it clearly is for ourselves! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred(仇恨) in our hearts, we will have to carry them around all our lives.
Do you think you have got anything from the wise teacher and what she asked her students to do?
Bookstores are second homes for readers. Although many people can now buy books online, many readers still like the feeling in bookstores. They can touch(触摸) the books and smell the print.
In China, there are many special bookstores. Sanlian Taofen Bookstore became the first 24-hour bookstore in Beijing at the beginning of April. Popular Holdings in Shanghai is a film-themed bookstore. It has film books and posters. Eslite Bookstore in Taiwan often has activities like talks with famous writers.
At the same time, bookstores outside China can be very colorful, too. Scarthin Books is a small bookstore in the UK. It sells new and second-hand books. There are more than 100,000 books lying on the shelves of the store's 12 rooms. Bart's Books in the US is a good place to enjoy the sunshine(阳光) while reading books. It's an outdoor bookstore. Bookshelves are on the street. When the store is closed, people can still buy books. They just put money into the door's coin box. Where can you find a café, bar and bookstore in just one place? The answer is probably El Pendulo in Mexico. Books line(排列成行) the walls of the store. On the second floor, visitors can order everyday meals in the café and drinks from the bar. In order to keep cool, there are green plants and trees inside. Does it look like a park?
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Rabbit |
win the second race; be good at running |
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Tortoise |
swim across the river; put the rabbit on the back; reach the finishing line together |
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The Famous Rabbit-Tortoise Race
We all know that the rabbit lost the first race against the tortoise.
