Once upon a time, there was a lazy poor man living in a small house with spider webs (蜘蛛网) on the walls and mice running around. People _________ coming into such a dirty place and the poor man was lonely and sad every day. He thought it was poverty (贫困) that _________ his unhappy life.

One day, the poor man dropped in on a wise old man and asked him for _________ about changing his life. The old man gave him a beautiful vase (花瓶) and said, “This is a magic vase that will bring you _________.” The poor man looked at the vase _________. Why would he need a vase in his poor house? However, he didn’t want to throw away such a beautiful vase, so he _________ it home and put it on the table. “It’s not right for something so beautiful to be _________,” the poor man looked at the vase and thought. Then he picked some wild flowers and put them into it, making it even more beautiful.

_________ he was still not satisfied. “It is not good for such a beautiful thing to stand next to a spider web.” Therefore, he started to do some cleaning in the house and paint the walls. His house turned into a _________ place immediately. The poor man cheered up. He suddenly _________ that in the past it was his laziness that made him poor and unhappy. From then on, he worked hard and his life got better and better.