When I arrived in Hamburg Germany, my colleague who worked there arranged a welcome party for me in a restaurant. We noticed a few customers, including several old ladies, were having their meal. When a dish is _______, the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would finish every bit of the food on their plates.

As I was hungry, my local colleague ordered much food for me. Since there were other things to do, we did not spend much time dining. When we planned to leave, there was still about one third of _______ food left. When we were leaving the restaurant, we _______ someone calling us. When the old ladies spoke to us in English, we understood that they were unhappy about us wasting so much food.

“We _______ for our food, it is none of your _______ no matter how much food we left behind”, my colleague told the old ladies. They got angry, and one of them _______ made a call to someone. After a while, an officer in uniform arrived. Upon finding what had happened, he issued us a 50-euro _______. The officer told us in a stern(严厉的) voice, “Order what you can consume. Money is yours, but the resources belong to the society. You have no _______ for wasting them.” Our face turned red.

We all agreed with him in our hearts. My colleague took out a 50-euro note and repeatedly _______ to the officer.

My colleague copied the fine ticket and gave a copy to each of us as a souvenir. We all kept it to remind us that we should never be ________.

A rich man wants to go to State Chu, a country in the south (南方). _________ he goes to the opposite (相反的) way. A passer-by (路人) asks him where he is going.

The rich man _________ “I’m going to State Chu.”

The passer-by is surprised. He asks, “Then _________ do you make your way in the opposite way?”

The man answers, “It doesn’t matter. My _________ can run fast.” “Oh, it’s not right. With the wrong way, your horse will take you far away _________ State Chu!” the passer-by says.

“It doesn’t matter. I have a lot of money for _________.”

“Well, you have lots of money for travelling, but you are travelling in the wrong way. You’ll _________ waste (浪费) your money!”

“My driver does well in driving. I can’t know why you are _________,” the rich man says.

“You are really foolish,” the passer-by says and _________ away.

We should have a right way before doing things. This can use our good points (长处) __________. Or, with wrong ways, the good points will have the opposite effect (影响).

Once upon a time, there was a scientist. He wanted to study ________. Then in the library he ________ two peanuts (花生) into a tall glass bottle. The bottle was completely transparent (透明的). One could see the two peanuts ________ from outside.

Then he gave the bottle to a monkey. The monkey held the bottle ________ shook it for a while. He couldn’t think of a way to get these peanuts out. He kept ________ the bottle and finally, the peanuts fell out and the monkey got to eat them.

The scientist put ________ two peanuts into the bottle. This time, he showed the monkey that if he put the bottle upside-down, it was ________ for him to get the peanuts. But the monkey still shook the bottle aimlessly (无目的地) after he got it. He didn’t learned ________ from the scientist. Why? The reason is that all the monkey saw was just the peanuts. His brain could not manage anything else such as the ________ example.

Sometimes when we meet some difficult situations, we are just like this monkey. We couldn’t control our mind and try our best ________ a way to solve the problem. We only do something aimless with the problem but get nothing at last.