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| long hand refuse when they look promise why mouth again guess take |
A very kind woman had one wish．She wanted to visit both hell and heaven （地狱和天堂） before she died．An angel （天使） （96）promised to make her wish come true．
First the angel （97）took her to a great dining hall．There were delicious food and drinks on the tables．Many people were sitting around the tables．But the people looked sad and hungry．
"（98）Why are they like this？"she asked the angel．
"Look at their （99）hands，"replied the angel．
She looked and found that there were very （100）long chopsticks （筷子） in the people's hands．The chopsticks were so long that they couldn't use （101）them to put food into their own （102）mouth．So they could only look at the food and stay hungry and sad．
"This is really hell!Take me away from here!"she said to the angel．
Then the angel took her to heaven．（103）Again she found herself in a great dining hall and there were also delicious food and drinks on the tables．People there （104）looked happy．They were sitting around the tables，talking and laughing．
"I （105）guess there are no long chopsticks，"she said．
"Oh，yes，there are．Just as in hell people have very long chopsticks in their hands．But look，here people have learnt to feed one another，"said the angel．
