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Question

There was this wise teacher who took all his students for tea. They were surprised that all the cups on the table were different. They all took a cup and thought of ___(21)___ (drink) their tea each looking at the cups of others. The teacher let them do that for a while and then said: “Do you notice your behavior? You are all looking at each other’s tea cup and I ____(22) ___ see some of you who have the chipped (有残缺的) ones are even envious of the finer cups of others. Is this not so?” The students agreed for they ___(23)___ (amuse) by their own behavior. “I put them there on purpose and you may probably wonder ____(24) ___ you all had different cups. You see they are like life itself. Life is like that tea and the cups are like the physical circumstances of your life. You all got ___(25) ___ same thing in your cups — tea. And yet you cannot truly enjoy ___(26) ___ in your being envious of another’s cup. It’s quite similar to life. You forget to enjoy your own life just ___(27)___ you concentrate on being envious of the circumstances of someone else’s life.

So now close your eyes and taste your own tea. Really taste it. And tell me — did it matter ___(28) ____ which cup it came?”

Answer 1

  21. drinking       22. can         23. were amused         24 . why    

25. the           26. it           27. because             28. from