In China, very few children make pocket money, _________, in western countries, most kids make pocket money by themselves. They make many in many different ways. When kids are very young, their parents help them sell the fruits of their own trees to neighbors. Kids may also help parents do housework to make money at home. When they are sixteen, they can make money by _________ newspapers or by working in fast food restaurants, especially during summer holidays.

There are many _________ of making pocket money by kids themselves. First of all, they learn the value of money by working hard so that they will not _________ any. Secondly, they learn to make good use of money to buy things they need or want, such as books, pencils, movies, and even clothes they like. Thirdly, they can learn to _________ the daily life problems by helping their parents or others. Making pocket money is helpful for children when they grow up. That is why parents encourage their kids to make pocket money.

A man is walking by an elephant camp and finds that trainers (驯兽员) don’t _______ the elephants in cages or chain (囚禁) them. All that is a small piece of _______ —it is just around one of their legs.

When the man looks at the elephants, he doesn’t know why the elephants just don’t _________ the rope and run away? They can easily do so, but they don’t.

The man wants to know the answer, so he asks one of the trainers _________ it is so.

“When they are very _________ we use the small size of rope to chain them, and at that age, it is just right for them. When they grow up, they still think that they can’t run away. They think the rope can still chain them, so they never think of being _________, the trainer answers.

The man leaves away _________ but feels sorry that these animals can be free if they want, but it is just because over time, they think that they don’t have the _________.

How many of us live like the elephants—thinking we cannot do something just because we fail (失败) at it once or some times before?

Failure is part of _________. If we failed once or a few times, it doesn’t mean (意味) we can never make dreams come true. We should never give up (放弃) trying when we __________ failures in life.

Everybody knows that Edison is a famous scientist who invented the electric light bulb. But maybe fewer people have _________ his being kind and forgiving towards others. The following is a true story about him.

At one point in his experiments, Edison had at last _________ a working bulb—the final result of hundreds of trials. It was the first electric light bulb that had ever been made, and Edison was full of _________. He had dreamed of this moment for years. “Take it upstairs, Jimmy,” he said, handing it to his assistant, Jimmy Price. _________ there was a crash, and Edison turned around to see that his precious bulb had fallen to the ground and broken into pieces on the floor. Jimmy had let the bulb slip (滑落) through his fingers _________.

Edison said nothing, but everyone can imagine what his thoughts were. He went back to his work table and set to work once more to make another _________.

A few days later, a new bulb was finally ready. There it _________ on the table in front of its maker, fully completed. Then Edison did a very big thing. With a smile, he handed the new bulb to Jimmy. “Be careful this time,” he said. He was giving the young man another _________. Jimmy did not break it, so we have millions of bulbs in the world today.

As a proverb says, “Not the power to _________, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.” Life is too short and no one is __________. If we can forgive those who have hurt us, we will have a better life.