Gratitude: Gifts from the heart

According to legend（傳說）,a young man while travelling through the desert came across a spring of delicious water.The water was so sweet that he____his leather container so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his teacher.After a four-day journey he____the water to the old man who took a(n) ____drink,smiled warmly and thanked his student for the sweet water.The young man____to his village with a happy heart.

____,the teacher let another student taste the water.He spat（吐）it out,____it was terrible.It____had become stale（不新鮮）____the old leather container.The student____his teacher, "Master,the water was stale.Why did you____to like it?"

The teacher replied, "You____tasted the water.I tasted the____.The water was simply the container for a(n) ____of loving-kindness and____could be sweeter.Heartfelt gifts deserve the____gift of gratitude.

I think we____this lesson best when we receive innocent gift of love from young children.Whatever they are, the natural and proper____is appreciation and expressed thankfulness because we love the idea____ the gift.

Gratitude doesn't always come____.Unfortunately,most children and many adults value only the thing given ____the feeling hidden in it.We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude.

1.A. emptied B. sold C. delivered D. filled

2.A. presented B. sent C. got D. made

3.A. exciting B. deep C. quiet D. short

4.A. adapted B. headed C. returned D. turned

5.A. Later B. Soon C. However D. Otherwise

6.A. believing B. pretending C. hearing D. saying

7.A. unexpectedly B. obviously C. strangely D. surprisingly

8.A. in terms of B. apart from C. owing to D. in spite of

9.A. challenged B. demanded C. charged D. blamed

10.A. happen B. ignore C. pretend D. seem

11.A. still B. hardly C. previously D. only

12.A. talent B. gift C. leather D. stream

13.A. attempt B. sign C. act D. measure

14.A. anything B. none C. nothing D. something

15.A. rewarding B. return C. interesting D. pretended

16.A. understand B. need C. seek D. acknowledge

17.A. plan B. meaning C. idea D. behavior

18.A. within B. about C. between D. beyond

19.A. naturally B. smoothly C. obviously D. independently

20.A. apart from B. other than C. rather than D. as well as

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