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A group of class friends, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university
professor.Conversation soon __1__ into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the __2__ and returned with a large pot of coffee
and a couple of __3__-porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some __4__ looking, some expensive, some
delicate-telling them to __5__ themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in __6__, the professor said :" If you noticed, all the nice
looking expensive cups were taken up, __7__behind the plain and cheap ones.While it is normal for you
to __8__only the best for yourselves, that is the __9__ of your problems and stress.Be assured that the
cup itself __10__ no quality to the coffee.In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even
hides what we drink.__11__ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you __12__ went for
the best cups...And then you began __13__ each other's cups.Now consider this: Life is the __14__, 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 __15__, nor change the quality of life we__16__.Sometimes, by concentrating
only on the cup, we__17__to enjoy the coffee God has __18__ for us.God brews the coffee, not the cups… Enjoy the coffee!"
The happiest people don't have the best of everything.They just __19__the  best of everything.
Live simply.Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.Leave the __20__to God.

(     )1. A. stopped        (     )2. A. livingroom (     )3. A. cups         (     )4. A. plain         (     )5. A. devote        (     )6. A. stomach       (     )7. A. falling       (     )8. A. hope        (     )9. A. source        (     )10. A. adapts       (     )11. A. As           (     )12. A. consciously   (     )13. A. looking       (     )14. A. tea        (     )15. A. sign       (     )16. A. spend        (     )17. A. fail       (     )18. A. shown        (     )19. A. keep       (     )20. A. complex

B. looked     B. waitingroom B. pans   B. clean   B. help   B. hand   B. leaving   B. wish   B. resource   B. puts   B. What   B. cheerfully   B. glaring   B. water   B. say     B. live     B. succeed B. taken   B. take   B. remains

C. grew   C. bedroom   C. bowls   C. ugly   C. dedicate   C. mind   C. hiding     C. need     C. energy     C. adds   C. That   C. deliberately C. eyeing     C. wine   C. define     C. hate     C. tend   C. sent   C. make   C. rest

D. turned             D. kitchen           D. bottles           D. fine               D. enjoy             D. mouth             D. keeping           D. want               D. reason             D. applies           D. Which             D. bravely           D. glancing           D. coffee             D. signal             D. love               D. manage             D. provided           D. hold               D. complaints

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