One morning, a blind boy sat beside a building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, “I am blind. Please help me.”

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognizedhis footsteps and asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”

What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beautiful day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.

The first is: Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.

The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.

1.From the article we know that________.

2.On the sign what the man wrote was, “                .”

3.According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?

4.The word “recognized” here in Chinese means _______.

5._______ is the best title (题目) for this story.

－Do you know the man who         photos over there?
－Yes. He is Li Lei.

根据短文内容和所给中文提示，写出短文空白处各单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。

These days, a Chinese girl’s travel diary has become a hit online.

Zhao Xing, with only a   1. （地图）, a travel bag and 30 yuan, left the Chinese mainland for the   2.  （第一）time to Taiwan. At the   3.  （机场）, she was helped by a man who even told her his phone number. A bus driver was kind enough to   4.  （叫醒）her up when she fell asleep on the ride.

In Taiwan, Zhao told the man who   5.  （给）her a ride that she was from Beijing. The man asked if there was  6.  （任何事）else he could do to help make her journey   7.  （更好的）.

     “After coming back and thinking over everything I’ve experienced, I realized that the people impressed me the most, not the beautiful scenes or tasty food,” Zhao  8. （写）in her online diary.

From Beijing to Taiwan, so close, so   9.  （遥远的）away. Zhao’s wish is to encourage others to realize their   10.  （自己的）dreams of making the world a smaller, more friendly place for all.

Long long ago a man went to India and he had never been there before. When he got there, he saw a lot of fruit, but much of it was expensive because they couldn’t grow much because there was little water. Finally he saw a big basket of some very red and long fruit. And it was the cheapest in the shop.
So he went up and asked, “How much each kilo?”and the shop keeper said, “Two rupees(卢比). ”Two rupees in India was nothing. So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and started eating it. But after he ate some of it:oh, my god!His eyes watered, his mouth watered and burnt, and his face became red. He jumped up and down, saying, “Ah!Ah!Ah!”
But he still continued to eat the fruit!Some people who were looking at him shook their heads and said, “You’re crazy, man. Those are chilies(辣椒)!You can’t eat so many!People use them as a condiment, but only a little bit to put into food for taste. You can’t just eat them like that. ”But the silly man said, “No, I can’t stop!I paid money for them, and now I’ll eat them up. It’s my money!”
And you think that man was silly, right?We sometimes do a lot of things like that. We spend money, time or effort doing something. And even though it’s been a long time, hard experience tells us it won’t work, and we know there’s no more hope, we still continue just because we’ve put money, time, effort and love in to it. Just like the man who ate the chilies and felt so bad but couldn’t stop because he didn’t want to waste the money he’d paid.
So even if you’ve lost something, let it go and move on. That’s better than continuing to lose.
【小题1】The man chose to buy the red and long fruit only because  .

短文填空，从下面方框中选出10个单词，用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺(每词限用一次)。请将答案依次填入下边表格内。（每小题1分，共10分）

These days, a Chinese girl’s travel diary has become a hit online.

Zhao Xing, with only a map, a travel bag and 30 yuan, left the Chinese mainland for the  1  time to Taiwan. At the airport, she  2  by a man who even told her his phone number. A bus driver was kind enough  3  her up when she fell  4  on the ride.

In Taiwan, Zhao told the man who  5  her a ride that she was from Beijing. The man asked if there was  6   else he could do to help make her journey  7 .

“After  8  back and thinking over everything I’ve experienced, I realized that the people impressed me the most, not the beautiful scenes or tasty food,” Zhao wrote in her online diary.

From Beijing to Taiwan, so close, so far away. Zhao’s wish is to encourage  9  to realize their own dreams of making the world a  10 , more friendly place for all.