An old man was fishing on the bank of a river. A 1 came to see him fishing.The old man was a really 2 fisherman(渔夫) and it didn't take long for him to catch many fish. The old man saw that the child was very cute, and he wanted to3 her some of his fish. But the child shook(摇) her head. The old man was4 and asked, "Why don't you want the fish?"
The child 5 , "I want the fishing rod(竿) in your hands."
The old man asked, "Why do you want the rod?"
"It doesn't take long to eat all the fish you give me. But if I have the fishing rod, Ican go fishıng by 6 and I won't be afraid of not having any more fish to eat."
I think you will 7 say that the child is very smart. Wrong! If she doesn't know 8 to fish, she can not have fish to eat, even though she has the fishing rod.It's useless to only have a fishing rod 9 fishing skılls are the most important, not the fishing rod.
Too many people think that if they have a"fishing rod"in their life, they will 10 the wind and rain anymore. They are just like the child, who thought that if she had a fishing rod, she would have fish to eat.
