Question

A teacher wanted to show his ideas to the students more clearly, so he gave an________in his class.

He took out a large glass and said, “Ok, time for a game”. Then he put some stones carefully_______the glass. When the glass was filled to the top and no more stones would fit inside, he asked, “Is this glass_______?” Everyone in the class answered, “Yes.”

Then the teacher said, “Really?” He reached under the table and pulled out a bag of sand. He put them in and________the glass, causing the sand down into the spaces among the stones. Then he asked the students again, “Is this glass full?” By this time the class was not so sure. “Probably not，” one of them answered.

“Good!” he replied. He reached under the table________and brought out a bottle of water. He poured the water into the glass and it went into all the spaces left between the stones and the sand.

Then the teacher looked at the students and asked, “What can we learn from this game?” One boy raised his_______ and said, “It shows us, no matter how full your plan is, you can always fit some more in it if you try really hard.”

“Wonderful!” said the teacher, “but that’s not the point. The truth the game shows us is this: If you don’t put the big stones in_______, you’ll never get them in at all. What are the big stones in your life? Maybe the things you love or the things worth（值得） doing. So whenever you think of this game, ask yourself this question, “What are the big stones in my life?”________to do these things first of all.

From the example above, his students understood him well.

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