God’s coffee

A group of class friends, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon    36     into complaints about stress in  work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the    37   and returned with a large pot of coffee and a couple of   38   ---porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some   39    looking, some expensive, some delicate --- telling them to   40    themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in    41  , the professor said :“ If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,    42    behind the plain and cheap ones. Whiles it is normal for you to    43    only the best for yourselves, that is the    44    of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself    45   no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.   46   all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you    47   went for the best cups… And then you began __48___ each other’s cups. Now consider this: Life is the ___49____; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not   50  , nor change the quality of life we   51  . Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we   52  to enjoy the coffee God has   53    us. God brews the coffee, not the cups… Enjoy the coffee!”

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just   54   the  best of everything.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the   55  to God.

A. stopped       B. looked          C. grew        D. turned

A. living-room    B. waiting-room    C. bedroom     D. kitchen

A. cups          B. pans           C. bowls       D. bottles

A. plain         B. clean           C. ugly        D. fine

A. devote        B. help           C. dedicate      D. enjoy

A. stomach       B. hand          C. mind         D. mouth

A. falling        B. leaving        C. hiding         D. keeping

A. hope         B. wish          C. need           D. want

A. source        B. resource       C. energy         D. reason

A. adapts        B. puts           C. adds           D. applies

A. As           B. What          C. That           D. Which

A. consciously    B. cheerfully      C. deliberately     D. bravely

A. looking       B. glaring         C. eyeing         D. glancing

A. tea           B. water          C. wine          D. coffee

A. sign          B. mean          C. define         D. signal

A. spend         B. live           C. hate           D. love

A. fail           B. succeed        C. tend           D. manage

A. shown        B. taken          C. sent            D. provided

A. keep          B. take           C. make           D. hold

A. complex       B. remains        C. rest            D. complaints