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A.happy B.die C.understand D.talking E.alive F.but

G.have H.future I.liked J.all the time

There was once a man who was very rich but very stingy (吝嗇的) at the same time. Nobody

1. him in the village. One day he said to them, “I know you don’t like me. When I 2., I will give everything to you. Then everyone will be 3..”

Even then nobody believed him. The rich man couldn’t 4. why they didn’t believe him. One day he went for a walk. Under a tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow 5..

The pig said to the cow, “Everybody likes you 6. nobody likes me. Why? When I provide people with meat, ham (火腿) and so on, I give three or four things to them. But you give only one thing－milk. Why do people like you 7. but not me?”

The cow answered, “Look, I give milk while I’m 8.. they see that I am generous (慷慨) with what I 9.. But you don’t give them anything while you are alive. Only after you’re dead do you give meat, ham and so on. People don’t believe in the 10., they believe in the present (現(xiàn)在). If you give while you are alive, people will like you.”

From that moment on, the rich man wasn’t stingy any more. Everyone began to like him. And he felt quite happy.

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