John sold hats from town to town for a living．One summer afternoon, he traveled through a jungle．He felt 1 and took a nap under a mango tree．
When he 2 , he found there were no hats!“Oh, no!”he shook his head 3 ．Suddenly, he looked up and noticed the tree was full of monkeys wearing colorful 4 ．He yelled at them and they 5 ．He threw a stone at them 6 they showered him with mangoes．
Finally, he took off his own hat and threw it on the 7 ．To his surprise, the monkeys also threw their hats!John didn't waste a second, 8 collected them and went on to the next town．
Fifty years later, Habib, grandson of John, was passing through the 9 jungle．After a long walk, he was very tired and decided to 10 in the shade of a mango tree．Very soon he was 11 ．
A few hours later, when Habib woke up, he 12 all the hats were gone!He started 13 them．To his surprise, he found some monkeys on the tree wearing his hats．He was 14 and did not know what to do, but then he remembered the 15 of his grandfather．
“Oh, I can 16 these monkeys!Very soon I'll get all hats back!”said Habib．
Habib waved at the monkeys and they waved back．He started 17 and the monkeys also danced．
Then, he threw his hat on the ground 18 all the monkeys to do so． 19 , one monkey jumped down, walked up to Habib and hit him on the shoulder, saying,“Do you think only you had a 20 ?”
The moral of this story：Wiser from the experience, wiser by the generation, right?
In my third year as a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech telling students and parents about the benefits of football．I gave the same 1 each year, aimin g at recruiting(招收)new team members．I talked about 2 football wasn't just for 3 athletes and how everyone could 4 from it．This year, a 5 looking couple approached me after my speech．They said their son really wanted to play football．They had tried to 6 him out of it, but he had his heart 7 on joining the team．
When they told me his name, my heart sank．Michael was five feet and ten inches tall and weighed about 108 pounds．He was a 8 boy, the constant target of other kids' jokes, and as far as I knew he had never 9 sports．I knew he would never 10 it through football practice, let 11 as a player．But we told them we could give it a try．
On the opening day of practice, Michael was the first player on the field, we did 30 minutes of warming-up 12 starting a one-mile jog around the track．I 13 my eye on Michael．At 50 yards he fell, and I helped him to his feet．“Michael,”I said,“Why don't you just 14 the mile?”He said in tears that he wanted to run with the others, so I let him go on． 15 he fell, but each time 16 himself up．
The same thing happened every day for weeks, and Michael gained strength both 17 and physically．By the last week of practice, Michael could run the mile without falling, we had 18 only one game that season, 19 the team cheered louder for Michael's run than the victory they had, Afterward, Michael approached me, and I told him how 20 I was of him．
When I was a little girl, every Sunday my family of six would put on our best clothes and go to Sunday School and then church．The 1 in elementary school would all meet together to sing songs, and then later divide into 2 based on their ages．
One Easter Sunday, all the kids 3 with big eyes and big 4 about what the Easter Bunny(复活节小兔)had brought． 5 all of the kids shared their stories with 6 , one young boy , whom I shall call Bobby, sat 7 ．One of the teachers , noticing this, said to him, “And what did the Easter Bunny 8 you?”He replied, “My mom 9 the door by accident so the Easter Bunny couldn't get 10 because he hadn't got a key．”
This sounded like a 11 idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the stories．My mom knew the true story, 12 ．Bobby's mom was a single parent , and she suspected(怀疑)that they just couldn't 13 the Easter Bunny．
After Sunday School was over, everyone went off to 14 ．But my mom announced that we were going home 15 ．At home, she explained that to make Bobby feel 16 , we were going to pretend(假装)to be the Easter Bunny , make a basket of our candies for him and 17 it at church．We all donated(捐赠)some to the basket, and 18 back to church．There, mom hung the basket over the hanger(挂钩)and attached(附上)a(n) 19 ：
Dear Bobby,
I'm sorry I 20 your house last night．Happy Easter．
