One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet .He held a sign which said,“I am blind. Please help me.”

There were only a few coins（硬幣） in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat .He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask,“Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”

The man said,“I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”

What he had written was,“Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.

The first is: Treasure(珍惜)what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.

The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.

1. From the passage we know that______.

A. the boy is the man’s son.                B. the man is one of his neighbors.

C. the boy is blind and needs help.        D. the boy works for the man.

2. On the sign what the man wrote was,“_______.”

A. Treasure what we have already had.     

B. Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.

C. We are so lucky that we are not blind.  

D. Try your best to help those who need your help.

3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A .The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign.

B. The man took away all the few coins from the hat.

C. The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school.

D. Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy.

4.The word“recognized”here in Chinese means______.

A.承認                                    B.接受           

C.表揚                                    D.認出

5.“____”is the best title for this story.

A. Be careful.                           

B. Be creative. There is always a better way!

C. Be kind to the blind!             

D. Do not always get, but offer!

Water is the _____ of all the things we eat and drink. Not many people understand this but ______ quite true. The human body can go without _____ for a long time. We’ve got many examples for this. Yet two _____ three days without water can usually make people ______. Man can’t live ______ water.

Many people don’t understand how _____ water the human body needs _____ work well, and many people, especially young people, do not drink enough, _____ in very hot weather. Our body has mostly water, about 65% to 75%. That is to say about two thirds of our body is water. When we do sports, some of the water will get away from our body. ___ we don’t drink some water, we won’t have enough water. And if we don’t have enough water, we’ll feel tired and many of us will get ill. So you know how important water is to us.

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