The neighborhood kids heard Zeke banging（重击） in his garage. "What's Zeke doing now?" asked Kevin. "He's always busy with something, but today he's noisier than usual! I'd say strange things will happen. "

"He says he's building an airplane, " said Will. "My father gave him a broken lawnmower（割草机）. You know Zeke-he can create （创造） something out of anything!"

"Zeke bought six loaves of bread and a large jar of butter, " said Donny, He wondered nervously what Zeke was doing with those ordinary things.

Just then they heard a huge noise as something came crashing（撞坏） out of the garage.All the kids saw Zeke's determined（坚定的）, red face under his wild, curly hair. "I'll send postcards!" Zeke shouted bravely as he went up into the clouds.

Once upon a time there was an old man. He was really good at fishing. One day, he was fishing on the bank of a river. Soon he caught a full basket of fish. Just at that time, a child came and said to him, “Can you give me the fishing rod (钓鱼竿) in your hands.” The old man looked up at him and said, “I can give you a full basket of fish.” But the child shook his head. The old man was surprised and asked, “Why do you want the rod instead of the fish?”

“Oh! You know it doesn’t take long to eat all the fish in a basket. But if I have the fishing rod, I can go fishing by myself and I won’t be afraid of not having any fish to eat.”

You may certainly think that the child is very smart. Wrong! If he doesn’t know how to fish, he cannot eat any fish, even if he has the fishing rod. It’s useless to only have a fishing rod. Fishing skills are more important than the fishing rod.

Too many people think that if they have “a fishing rod” in their life, they will no longer fear the wind and rain. In fact they will make the same mistake like the child in the story.