Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the countryside. 【小题1】 After many years the Countryside Mouse said to the City Mouse, “【小题2】 ” So the City Mouse went to the countryside. The City Mouse said, “This food is not good and your house is not good. 【小题3】 You should come and live in the city. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me in the city.”

The Countryside Mouse went to the house of the City Mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The City Mouse cried, “【小题4】” They ran away quickly.

When they came out, the Countryside Mouse said, “I do not like living in the city. 【小题5】 For it is nicer to be poor but happy than (比) to be rich but afraid.”

David, a famous scientist, has made several important medical breakthroughs(突破), a reporter interviewed him asking why he was able to be so much more creative than most people.

David said that it all came from an experience with his mother that happened when he was about four years old. He tried to remove a bottle of milk from the fridge and it fell, spilling the milk all over the kitchen floor - a real sea of milk!

Instead of shouting at him, giving him a lecture or punishing him, his mother said, “What a great and wonderful mess you have made! Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?”

Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “David, whenever you make a mess like this, which do you prefer to use, a sponge, or a mop?” He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the floor.

His mother then said, “You have a failed experiment in how to successfully carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it.” The little boy then learned that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it.

This famous scientist said he had learnt a lot from that little accident. It was at that moment that he knew mistakes were not something bad at all. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just chances for learning something new, which is, we still can learn something valuable from it.

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Gillian Lynne never did well at school as a child. She couldn’t keep sitting quietly for long. Her mother was worried and took her to a doctor. For twenty minutes, the mother talked about the problems Gillian had at school. Finally, the doctor said to Gillian, “I need to speak to your mother privately (私下). Wait here, and we’ll be back soon.” Then the doctor turned on the radio on his desk. When they got out of the room, he said to Gillian’s mother, “Just stand here and watch her.” The minute they left the room, Gillian began to dance to the music.

They watched for a few minutes and the doctor said to the mother, “Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn’t sick. She’s a dancer. Take her to a dance school.”

So she did. Gillian’s new dance school was full of people like her. They loved to move to think. Later Gillian went to the Royal Ballet School and became a great dancer. After leaving the school, she worked for some successful musicals (音乐剧).

It’s hard to believe that years ago, somebody would let her take medicine to keep quiet.