One day, two friends were walking through the desert.­­__36__ the journey they had a quarrel, and one friend hit __37__ one in the face.
The one who was hit was hurt,__38__ he didn’t say anything. Instead, he wrote in the sand,“Today my best friend hit me in the face.”
They kept on __39__ until they found an oasis(绿洲).They decided to get some water. The one who had been hit fell into the mire(泥潭) and was in danger, but the friend __40__ him.
When he felt all right, he wrote on __41__.“Today my best friend saved my life.”
The one who had hit and saved his best friend asked him,“After I __42__ you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone.__43__”
The other friend replied,“When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness(宽恕) can blow __44__ away. Bt when someone does something __45__ for us, we must write it in stone where no wind can ever blow it away.”

One day two young men went to the forest. On the way, one said t              the other, “We’re g            friends. We must help each o          ” “All right!” the other one answered. After a short t          , there was a great noise. It was a big bear. The two men ran

a             quickly. One of them got up into a tree. The other was fat and couldn’t

 c            up. He threw himself at the foot of the tree. The bear came near. It looked at the fat man, put i            nose down and smelt him. It thought the young man was dead, so it walked away. The man in the tree came down. He asked his friend, “The bear put its mouth so near to your ear. W          did it say to you?” The fat young man answered, “the bear said, ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed.’ ”