He was just an ordinary p_________. Day after day, he went regularly across the village. For him, life was without waves.

One day, he was delivering mails as usual. When he looked up in the sky, he s_________lost his balance（平衡）. It was a little stone that caught his feet. He found it strange but beautiful. He then placed the stone in his bag carefully. Because of this stone’s arrival, his day was lightened. He had a thought—I can b_________a castle with such beautiful stones. How wonderful it will be!

His ordinary life started to be different since then. He still delivered mails, but he collected every stone he could find along the way. All those dusty stones, in his eyes, shone like diamonds. After collecting e_________stones, he started. During the daytime, he passed along the dreams of others; and during the night time, he had his own dream. No one was willing to join in. But he was still happy b_________he knew the dream and the castle only belonged to him.

After 20 years of working day and night, his dream castle was finally completed. It was a wonderful castle just as he i_________.

This is a real story. His name is Xue Waller. The stone castle has become one of the most famous tourist a_________in France. At the entrance of the stone castle, there is a sentence—“I want to know how far a dream stone can go.”

1.p_________

2.s_________

3.b_________

4.e_________

5.b_________

6.i_________

7.a_________

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B. The change in Chinese buyers’ thinking.

C. Chinese products in the eye of foreigner.

D. Difference between older and younger Chinese buyers.

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