Frank and his brother Jack lived near the ocean. Frank was outgoing but Jack was _____ . Frank liked playing games of beach volleyball, football and other ______,while Jack liked to draw, paint, or build sandcastles (沙堡).

Frank thought Jack's hobbies were boring, but ______ were interesting. He believed doing sports was ______ than building sandcastles because children could play together. Jack didn't agree, and he decided to show Frank what doing things together looked like! After Jack finished ______ a beautiful sandcastle, he took pictures of it. Then he used them to make colorful posters saying. “Can you top (超过) this?” He put up his posters ______ in town. He expected people of all ages to come and ______.

On a Saturday morning, Jack began digging in the sand on the beach. Later, four kids joined him. By noon, the kids became more. ______Frank came back from his ball game, he went to see his brother’s sandcastles. He couldn't believe his eyes. At least 30 people were building sandcastles, and everyone was laughing and working ______! It was the most beautiful thing he had seen on the beach. “I was ______ . ”Frank said. Jack gave him a shovel (铲子) with a smile, and they started digging together.

No two leaves are alike in the world. We should always be able to sec things in others' places.

Once a fox met a wolf.

“Sir, I’m going to a farm to eat some chickens,” said the fox. “What about _________?”

“Well, I’m going to catch the sheep,” replied the wolf. “And if you _________ to behave well, you can come along too.”

“Thank you,” said the fox, “You are very kind.”

_________ he wanted to seem well-behaved, the fox walked behind the wolf and to the left. The wolf was very happy.

“I’m _________ you know how to behave,” said the wolf.

After some time, they came to a hedge (树篱), there was a small hole through it, big enough for one to _________ at a time. The wolf _________. He wanted to see what the fox would do.

“_________ you, Sir!” said the fox.

The wolf smiled and went through the hedge first. The next minute the fox heard a loud noise.

The fox heard the sound of the _________ falling into a trap (陷阱) laid by people. The fox had already _________ that the hedge was a trap. So, he let the wolf go first. After the wolf fell into the trap, the fox thought that was the __________ time.

He caught a sheep and ate it.

Once my brother David and I visited our aunt, Mary. We stayed in her house for a night. David was only 4 years old, and was still ________ of the dark, so Mary left the light on when we slept.

However, David hated the gray moths (蛾) flying around the light. He asked Mary to make the moths ________. When she asked ________, he simply said, “Because they are ugly and scary, I don’t like them.” Mary laughed, “Being ugly outside doesn’t mean not being beautiful inside. In fact, moths are one of the most beautiful animals.

“Once, the angels (天使) were ________ because it was raining heavily. The kind and colorful moths decided to make a rainbow (彩虹) to cheer them up. They beat their wings very hard and gave away all their colors except gray to make a rainbow. So the one-color moths became ________. The angles saw the rainbow and smiled…” My brother went to sleep with that story and hasn’t feared moths since then.