The story goes that two best friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had a（n）1, and one friend slapped（打耳光）the other one in the _2.

The one who got slapped was _3, but without saying anything, wrote in the _4: “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.”

They keep on walking _5they found an oasis（绿洲），_6they decided to take a bath, The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire（泥沼）and started _7, but the friend saved him.

After he _8from the near drowning, he _9on a stone: “Today my best friend _10my life.”

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend 11him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone.  12?”

The other friend replied: “When someone hurts us we should write 13down in the sand where winds of 14can erase it. But when someone does something 15for us, we must carve it in stone where no wind can 16erase it.”

What does the story 17us? — Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your 18in stone.

Send this sentence to the people you’ll never 19. It’s a 20message to let them know that you’ll never forget them.

1.A. stop             B. argument        C. rest               D. agreement

2.A. face             B. hand            C. head               D. back

3.A. defeated         B. injured         C. hurt               D. refused

4.A. stone            B. desert          C. diary              D. sand

5.A. while            B. before          C. when               D. until

6.A. which            B. where           C. when               D. that

7.A. crying           B. drowning        C. falling            D. dying

8.A. came             B. returned        C. recovered          D. took

9.A. wrote            B. drew            C. recorded           D. stood

10.A. protected       B. changed         C. supported          D. saved

11.A. questioned      B. told            C. asked              D. answered

12.A. How             B. Why             C. When               D. Where

13.A. them            B. these           C. it                 D. those

14.A. forgiveness     B. love            C. peace              D. kindness

15.A. hard            B. bad             C. friendly           D. good

16.A. ever            B. never           C. still              D. even

17.A. remind          B. tell            C. prove              D. inform

18.A. benefits        B. profits         C. advantages         D. memories

19.A. remember        B. leave           C. forget             D. miss

20.A. useless         B. long            C. traditional        D. short