A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful _______, and knowing her husband could afford it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the _______ , her husband told her how _______he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He gave her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and _______ a Bible. _______, she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible?” She was so upset that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very _______ in business. She owned two large companies. She realized her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to visit him. But before she could, she _______a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to come back and take care of things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness filled her heart. She saw the still new _______ , just as she had left it years before. With tears, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring _______ from the Bible to the floor and a card could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LOVE U ALWAYS”.

________ your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the heart.

Once upon a time, there was a king who loved riddles. Every year the king made a new riddle. He gave a prize to the person who _______ solve the riddle.

There was a baker who lived in the kingdom. _______ agreed that he baked the finest bread. The baker had almost everything except for a _______. If the baker had one, he could sell his fine bread from one end of the kingdom to the other. One year the riddle puzzled everyone. “Whoever _______ the riddle will get my strongest horse,” the king _______. He then drew a line on the ground of the courtyard, “Make this line shorter _______ erasing any part of it,” the king challenged.

People came from far and wide. They put their nose to the ground to take a _______ look at the line. “_______ on earth can you do it?” the people in the crowd asked each other. Some of them tried. The dressmaker kicked dirt over the line to _______ it. The farmer poured water over the line to make it disappear. None of these ________ worked, and the people went home, feeling upset.

A week later, the baker came into the courtyard ________ with a bag of flour. He opened the bag and poured out a line of flour next to the king’s line. The line the baker made was ________ than the king’s line.

“Now, Your Majesty,” the baker said to the ________, “your line is shorter.”

The people were amazed. The king laughed and clapped his hands. “You have ________ the prize. I will give you a horse of your choice.”

The baker was excited, ________ he could sell his bread all over the kingdom now.