One day, a vendor (小贩) came to our doorstep, selling bundles of vegetables priced at one dollar per bundle. My mom’s _______ was 50 cents, no more than that, but she _______ to buy four bundles at that price. Politely declaring that she wouldn’t even _______ the cost at that price, the vendor walked away.

After taking four steps ahead, however, she _______ and shouted, “Make it 75 cents per bundle, and I will sell it to you.” Mom shook her head and _______ to her original offer of 50 cents. _______ for a while, the vendor came back to our doorstep. The deal was _______ at my mom’s bid. My mom paid the money. The vendor took it without even counting. As she _______, she swayed (摇晃) due to apparent dizziness. My mom held her hands and asked whether she had had any _______ in the morning. The vendor said, “No, I will need to buy some with today’s earnings.”

My mom asked her to sit down, ________ inside, came back swiftly with some food and drink and offered them to the vendor. The vendor hungrily and ________, finished them all. Thanking my mom for all the food, she went on her way.

I was ________. I asked my mom why she was so mean in bargaining for 50 cents but was ________in offering food of a much higher price to that vendor.

Wills was a gardener. He was always active and never lazy. _________ he was honest. He worked hard when he was young. He had two children and became old.

The gardener saw his own hands. He also saw the spade (铁锹) which was kept in the corner of his house. His hands were _________. He took his children’s hands which were too _________ as they had never been _________ to work. Wills said, “My children, you have not worked a _________ day in your lifetime. I have my _________ about whether you will work or not in the future. I have _________ some treasure between two trees in the garden. Both of you dig the earth and try to find the treasure. The treasure will be yours. But you have to make a great _________.” After he finished speaking, the gardener died.

The children went to the garden without _________. They were so happy that they would be __________ and they took the spade and started digging the earth between two trees. They worked hard for the whole week. They __________ weeds and stones. They cleaned the ground. But they didn’t find any treasure beneath the ground. They dug the earth between the other trees, too. They did not find any treasure there, __________.

Dozens of days later, they saw the trees were full of sweet __________. They sold them in the market, which made a huge sum of money. In this way, they learned the __________ of labor. Both of them decided to work hard from then on. They also understood what their father meant about the __________.

Once upon a time, there lived a poor farmer and his wife. One day, having _________ their day’s labor and eaten their simple _________, they were sitting by the fie. And then they had a quarrel over who should _________ the door—it was blown open by _________.

“Darling, shut the door!” said the man. “ _________. Do it yourself!? the woman answered.

“I will not shut it, and you shall not shut it, “ said the man, “but let the one who speaks the _________ word shut it. “His words _________ the wife, so the old couple, well satisfied, went in silence to _________. In the middle of the night they heard a noise, and looking _________, they found that a wild dog had entered the room, ____________that he was busy ____________ their food. Not a word, however, would either of these ____________ people say, and the dog, having eaten as much as he wanted, went out of the house.

The next morning the woman went ____________ by herself. When she was ____________ , a barber（理发师）entered and said to the husband, “Why are you ____________ here alone?” The farmer didn’t say a word. The barber then shaved（制）his head, but still he did not ____________. He shaved off half his beard, but even then the man kept silent. “The man is crazy?” cried the barber, and he____________ escaped out of the house. At this moment the man’s wife____________ from the shop. She, seeing her husband in such a(n)____________condition, cried, “Ah! What have you been ____________?”

“You spoke the first word, “ said the farmer, “so, please shut the door. “