Last fall I put a bird feeder outside my window. I thought as soon as I hung up, a great ___16____ beautiful birds would come. Days, weeks and months went by; ____17____, no birds.
I asked many people, why? What was I doing ___18____? “Nothing,” most of them replied. “Just ____19____.” So I waited, waited and waited.
I ____20____ off the deck （露台）, I changed the feed, I ___21____ the feeders, and I ____22____ made the cat go out the other door! But ____23___ seemed to work. So --- I waited, “with patience and hope. ”
Two months later, early in the morning, I was ____24____. A beautiful bird had been on the bird feeder. All of a sudden, I saw hundreds upon hundreds of birds____25____ from everywhere.
____26____ a beautiful lesson this living thing taught me! “Patience and hope” will ____27____ the most beautiful things in life.
So I keep hoping and waiting, waiting and ___28____. I will try to use this “little lesson” in ____29____ many other things in my life. I guess, “____30____ is a virtue （美德）” after all.

A little boy was attracted(吸引)by a board above the door of a shop. It read, "Little Dogs for Sale." A    16   like that has a way of attracting small children into the shop.
The little boy walked into the shop and found a dog behind other dogs and said, "What’s 17  with that little dog?"
The store owner said that the vet(兽医)   18  the little dog and found it was   19 . It would always be lame(破的).
The little boy became   20  ."That is the dog that I want to buy. "
The store owner said, "No, you don’t need to buy that little dog. If you really want him,
I’ll just give him to you. "
The little boy got quite sad. He said angrily, "I don’t want you to give him to me. I’ll 21    the full price for him. In fact, I’ll give you $ 2.37 now, and 50 cents a month   22 I have paid the full price. "
The store owner continued, "He is   23  going to be able to run and jump and play with you like the other dogs."
To his   24  ,the little boy rolled up(卷起)his trousers to show his badly hurt left leg. He looked at the store owner and    25   answered," Well, I don’t run so well myself and the little dog will need someone who understands him. "

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Long long ago, there was a swan（天鹅）with golden feathers（金羽毛）.She lived in a lake. A woman lived in a small house  21 the lake with her two daughters. They were very poor. They worked hard all year round,   22 still,they lived a hard life and sometimes they even didn’t have enough  23 to buy food.
The swan was 24 to see that. She said to herself, “I’ll give one of my  25 to them each day, then they can live a happy life with the money selling my feathers.” That evening, she  26 to the poor woman’s house and left a golden feather on the table without saying  27 .From then on, the swam came every day and gave them a feather. The woman was very happy because their life was much  28 
than before.
But day after day, the woman became greedy（贪婪）.She said to her  29 .“The swan may fly away one day. If so, we will be poor again. We should take all  30 feathers when she comes next time.”
“Oh, no, Mom!” cried the daughters, “This will  31 the swan. She helps us a lot !” But the mother wouldn’t listen. When the  32 came as usual, the mother caught her and took all her feathers. But suddenly, the golden feathers  33 chicken feathers. Then, the Golden Swan said, “Poor Woman, I came to  34 you,but you wanted to kill me. Now, I am leaving and will  35 come back. Never be greedy!” With these words, the swan flew away.

A little old man and his wife walked slowly into McDonald’s 16 a cold-winter evening. They took a table near the back wall, and then the little old man walked to the cash register (收银处)to order. After a while he got the food back and they began to 17 it.
There was one hamburger, some French fries and one drink. The little old man carefully cut the hamburger into halves and 18 the French fries in two piles. Then he neatly put the 19 of the food in front of his wife. He took a sip of the drink and his wife took a sip. "How20 the old people are!" The people around them thought.
21 the man began to eat his hamburger and his French fries, his wife sat there 22 him and took turns to drink. 23 young man came over and offered to buy another meal for them. But they refused  24 and said that they got used to 25 everything.
Then a young lady asked the little old lady a question. "Madam, why aren’t you eating? You said that you shared everything. Then what are you waiting for?" She answered, "The teeth.”