We spent a day in the country, picking flowers. Our car soon l【小题1】 like a flower shop inside! On the way back we had to stop at some traffic l【小题2】. While we were waiting, my wife saw the cupboard (碗橱). It was a tall, beautiful cupboard, and it s【小题3】 outside a furniture shop.

“Buy it,” my wife said at once. “We’ll carry it h【小题4】on the top of the car. I've always wanted a kitchen cupboard l【小题5】 that.”

What could I do? Ten minutes later the cupboard was o【小题6】. My wife was very pleased b【小题7】I was 40 dollars poorer. I tied (系，捆绑) the thing on to my car. In the growing darkness I d【小题8】slowly. The police stopped other traffic to let us t【小题9】. Everyone on the r【小题10】 was very kind and helpful.

Many years ago, there was an old man who had four sons. He wanted his sons【小题1】not to judge things too quickly. So he told【小题2】to go and look at a pear tree. It was far away from his home. The first son went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the【小题3】son in autumn.

When the sons came back, the old man asked them to describe what they had seen.

The first son complained the tree was【小题4】with only dry branches. The second son said the tree【小题5】with buds（芽；苞）and full of hope. The third son said the tree was full of green【小题6】. They looked so beautiful, and it was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen. The youngest son said that the tree was bowed down【小题7】heavy fruits. It was full of life and fulfillment(收获).

The old man explained that all of his sons were right,【小题8】each of them had seen just one season of the tree. He【小题9】them that they couldn’t judge a tree or a person by only one season. “If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the hope of your spring, the【小题10】of your summer, and the fulfillment of your autumn.” said the old man.

It is true that we shouldn’t let the hard season break the happiness of the other seasons. Never give up during the difficult days and better times are sure to come some day.

A boy named Reggie was well-known in his hometown because he couldn’t hear anything. He was b【小题1】 deaf (聋的). Although people liked him a lot, they treated him much differently than other people. The other children w【小题2】 that they might hurt him while playing together. Adults (成年人) acted like he could not understand them, as if he was a baby.

However, this year, people got to understand Reggie a l【小题3】 better. On Reggie’s birthday, everyone in town would wear earplugs (耳塞) so that they couldn’t hear a【小题4】 either. This day came to be known as the Day of Silence. People got to know how difficult l【小题5】 could be when you can’t hear anything. They a【小题6】 learned that Reggie had some amazing skills.

On that day, no one thought of Reggie as just a deaf person. People saw a whole new side of him. They paid more attention to the things he said. They were s【小题7】 by his intelligence and his ability to find a solution to nearly any problem that he had. They r【小题8】 that he had always been like that and that he simply needed to c【小题9】 with others in a different way. In the end, he was really just like any other little boy.

On the Day of Silence, people came to know Reggie’s true nature. They learned that although most of us are different, we are still mostly the same in our h【小题10】 and minds. So we need to care for each other.