Once upon a time, two cats used to live in a village lovingly with each other. One day, they were passing 1 a forest. Suddenly, they found a loaf of bread 2 on a leaf in the forest. Both pounced upon it and caught the bread at the same time. "It is mine. I saw it first," shouted one cat. While the other said, "I pounced upon it first and so it is mine." 3 having fought for a while, they agreed to cut it into two and take one piece each. But when it came to deciding who would be the first one dividing（分开） the bread, they couldn't reach a（n） 4 .
A 5 sitting on the branch of the tree had watched all that happened between the two cats and thought to take advantage of the cats' fights. Slowly, he came down from the tree, walked up to 6 , and said, "My dear friends, I have two 7 . I can fairly share the bread for you". So the two cats handed the bread over to the monkey.
The 8 monkey smilingly broke it into two pieces. But one piece was a little 9 than the other one. "Oh no! I will take a little bite of it to make both equal（相等）," said the monkey. He took a bite from it. But 10 went wrong again. "Uh oh! Now it has become smaller than the other piece. I will just have to take a little bite from this piece now," said the monkey.
The monkey took 11 bite. The two cats could 12 sit in front of the monkey, seeing the loaf of bread they had found getting smaller and smaller. The monkey kept on eating from part to part and finally 13 the whole bread all on his won. "I am sorry. It was really difficult to divide that loaf. I must be going now," And the monkey quickly 14 and jumped onto the tree. "If only we had not 15 against each other, we would have remained united（团结） and we need not have to go to the monkey and to become hungry now," said the two cats.
