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Ain’t What I Used to Be
It has been said, "Be contented with what you have, but never too__
1__with what you are." There is
a story about a farmer who saw a tiger’s tail__
2__between two large rocks.In a hu
rry, he seized the tail
and__
3__. All of a sudden he realized he had an angry tiger by the__
4__and only two__
5__stood
between him and the tiger's teeth and claws! So there he remained, __
6__to loosen his hold on the__
7__
animal's tail in case he will surely be killed.
A monk happened to go by and the farmer called out in__
8__, "Come over here and help me.__
9__
this tiger!"
The monk said, "Oh, no. I cannot do that. I cannot take the__
10__of another." Then he went on to
deliver a long__
11__against killing. All the while, the farmer was holding__
12__to the tail of the angry
tiger. When the monk finally finished his__
13__, the farmer asked, "If you won't kill the tiger, then__
14__
come and hold its tail while I kill it."
The monk thought that perhaps, it would be all right to__
15__hold the tiger's tail, so he__
16__and
pulled.The farmer, however, turned and walked away down the road.
The monk__
17__after him, "Come back here and kill the tiger!"
"Oh, no," the farmer replied. "You have__
18__me!" If the largest room in the world is "room for
improvement", then it is good to leave__
19__of room for change. A life of change! A life of growth! And
always leaving room for__
20__.
It's the only way to live.
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B. excited B. dropping B. examined B. ear B. rocks B. read y B. big B. fear B. save B. wealth B. teaching B. securely B. work B. at most B. simply B. hesitated B. laughed B. changed B. much B. sleep |
C. ontented C. urning C. ulled C. rm C. ills C. ager C. ngry C. erson C. atch C. hing C. rayer C. ightly C. eal C. fter all C. ardly C. greed C. omplained C. elped C. ess C. mprovement |
D. surprised D. trembling D. appreciated D. tail D. fences D. anxious D. hungry D. order D. kill D. heart D. information D. closely D. lesson D. first of all D. mainly D. arranged D. shouted D. comforted D. more D. relaxation |