You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

—To Kill a Mockingbird

“A young girl didn’t give up her seat to an old man on a bus.” Ms. Whitehead was asking her students what they thought about it in her first Philosophy class. Most of the students thought what the girl did was ________ .

Ms. Whitehead didn’t give her opinion, ________, she told another story. “It was about a loving couple who were travelling on a ship. Unluckily, they met with a storm and the ship was going to sink (沉没), only one of the couple could have the chance to the lifeboat. To all passengers’(乘客) surprise, the husband left his wife behind and got on the lifeboat himself.”

The teacher stopped and asked, “How would you feel if you were one of the passengers?”

Shortly after, continued Ms. Whitchead. “The husband survived (幸存) home. He didn’t ________ others but raised their daughter alone after the worst day. 30 years later, the daughter learned about ________ happened on the ship by accident. Although she really wanted an explanation (解释) from father, her love for her father was always in the way. Her question in her heart wasn’t answered until she happened to find out it in his diary after her father died. The whole story is, on that day, her father and mother were on the trip to finish her ________ wish because she was dying of a serious illness. As a husband, he ________ to go with his wife. As a father, he had to take the chance of staying alive, for ________ loved one. During the rest of his life, he made their daughter—Evelyn into a ________, pretty girl with double love. Yes, the great husband is my father.”

The class dropped into ________ as Ms. Whitchead finished her story. She didn’t think any word was necessary and was sure that all the students should have been rethinking about their careless replies. Seeing is not always believing. We ________ not judge anyone or anything if we haven’t learnt the full story. Put yourself in others’ shoes and then you can really understand them.

Amy was a little girl. She lived near a fruit shop in the village. The shop was_______by Mr. Smith.

One day Mr. Smith said to Amy, “Would you like to earn (赚) some money? ”

“Oh, yes,” replied she, “for I want some new shoes, and dad has no_______to buy them with.”

“Well, Amy,” said Mr. Smith, “there are some fine_______in Mr. Green’s garden, and he said that anybody was welcome to them. I will_______you thirteen cents (美分) a kilogram for all you will pick for me.”

Amy was so_______that she decided to go to pick the grapes as soon as possible. She ran home to get a_______at once.

Then she thought she would like to know how much money she would get_______she picked five kilograms. _______the help of her pencil, she found out that she would get sixty-five cents.

“But supposing I should pick twelve kilograms,” thought she, “_______should I earn then?” “Dear me,” she said, after figuring (计算) a while, “I should earn one dollar and________cents.”

Amy then found out what Mr. Smith would pay her for fifty, a hundred, and two hundred kilograms. It took________some time to do this, and then it was so near lunch time that she had to________at home until afternoon.

As soon as lunch was________, she took her basket and________to the garden. Some boys had been there before lunch, and all the fine grapes were picked.

As she went home, she________what her teacher had often told her—“Do your task at once; then think about it,” for “one doer is worth a hundred dreamers.”

There once were two brothers. They were as ________ as night and day. One of them was a farmer. One day, he decided to visit his brother who owned a(an) ________ orchard (果园) near the city.

The city brother ________ up a tree and gave it to his brother. “I have chosen the ________ tree in my orchard,” he said. “________ it well, and it will provide sweet pears for you and your children.”

The farmer was pleased with the ________. But when he returmed to the countryside, he could not decide ________ to plant the tree.

He ________ planting it on a nearby hillside where it would get plenty of sun, and grow well. Then he thought,” ________ put it there, the high winds might blow the fruits off the tree.”

Next, he thought about planting it in his front yard, by the door. Again, he thought, “People who come to my door will see it. No, it won’t do to put such a tree where thieves (小偷) could ________ steal the pears.

Finally, the farmer decided to plant the tree far from his house. The first year, he went each day to look, but there was no fruit at all. The second and third year, he got ________ because he still didn’t find any fruit on the tree. He accused (指责) his brother of giving him a tree that would not ________ fruit.

The city brother saw where the farmer had planted the tree. “You are so ________, brother,” he said. “You chose a place where the winds are cold, and where there is no ________ to help the tree make flowers and fruit. You planted this tree withgreed (贪婪) and mistrust. So you can expect ________ from this tree.”