Johnny, a lizard (蜥蜴），lived between some rocks in the country, where he liked sunbathing every morning. One day, he felt so       that he didn’t notice some boys coming up behind him. The boys caught Johnny, and he could only escape from their hands by losing his       and running to hide.
The children watched his tail moving about, but they soon threw the tail away and left. Johnny came out to       his tail, but could find no       of it. Feeling so sad, he decided to       doing everything else in his life and spending all his time finding his tail. Days and months passed, and Johnny kept looking, asking everyone       they had seen his tail. However, there was      no news about it.
One day, he asked a boy and the boy       replied, “Why do you need two tails?” After hearing this, Johnny turned back and saw that he had grown a new, stronger tail. He suddenly realised how       it had been to waste so much time on a problem like it. Johnny headed for home.
    , he suddenly found his old tail on the roadside. Although it       terrible, Johnny was still excited to have it back. He picked it up and was about to       his journey. Just at that moment, an idea hit him that he shouldn’t look at the past and worry about it since it was not useful for      .
He then decided to       his old tail there, leaving with it all his past worries. As he continued his journey, all he took with him were thoughts of the present and the dreams of the       .
As we know, it’s not good to look at the past, unless it helps in the future. Let the past go with the wind.

   Once there was a rich man in a village .  He never gave anything to help others.  The  31   didn't like him . One day he said to them . “ I know you don't like me . I will give everything I have to you  32  I die. Then everyone will be happy. ”
     But nobody believed him . The rich man couldn't  33  why they didn't believe him. One day he went for a  34  by the lake . Under a tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow  35 .
     The pig said to the cow , “ why everybody likes you and nobody likes me?  After I die,  I 36  people with pork , ham , etc . I give three or four things to them. But you give only one thing  37  . Why do people like you all the time and not me. ”
     The cow said  “ Look , I give them milk while I'm 38  . They see that I am generous(慷慨的)with what I  39 .  But you don't give them anything before you die .  You give them ham, pork and so on only after you're dead. People don't believe in the future; they believe in the  40 .  If you give while you are living ,  people will like you.It is quite simple. ”
     From that moment on , the rich man did all his best to helo the poor .

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Once there was a rich man in a village. He never gave anything to help   42  . The villagers didn’t like him. One day he said to them, “I know you don’t like me. I will give everything I have     43   you when I die. Then everyone will be happy.”

But nobody   44   him. The rich man couldn’t understand why they didn’t believe him. One day he went for a walk by a lake. Under a big tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow   45.    The pig   46   to the cow, “Why everyone likes you and nobody likes me? After I die. I provide people with pork, ham, etc. I give three or four things to them. But you give    47   one thing—milk. Why do people like you all the time and not me?”

The cow said, “Look, I give them milk while I’m   48  . They see that I’m generous(慷慨的) with what I have. But you don’t give them anything before you die. You give them ham, pork and so on only after you’re dead. People don’t believe in the   49  ; they believe in the present. If you give something   50  you are living, people will like you. It is quite simple.”

From that moment on, the rich man did his  51   to help the poor.

1.A. other             B. others         C. the other       D. another

2.A. for               B. with           C. to              D. after

3.A. believes          B. believe        C. believes in     D. believed

4.A. fighting          B. talking        C. shouting        D. joking

5.A. sang              B. told           C. asked           D. said

6.A. more than         B. only           C. less than       D. but

7. lives               B. live           C. lived           D. alive

8.A. future            B. past           C. present         D. now

9.A. while             B. where          C. what            D. how

10.A. good      B. better  C. best D. well