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Cookies
Arnold Nobel
Toad bakes some cookeies.
“These cookies smell very good,” said Toad.
He ate one.
“Toad ran to Frog’s house.
“Frog, Frog,” cried Toad,
“”taste these cookies that I have made.”
Frog ate one of the cookies.
“These are the best cookies I have ever eaten!” said Frog.
Frog and Toad ate many cookies, one after another.
“You know, Toad,” said Frog, with his mouth full,
“I think we should stop eating. We will soon be sick.”
“You are right,” said Toad.
“Let us eat one last cookie.” And then we will stop.”
Frog and Toad ate one last cookie. There were many cookies left in the bowl.
“Frog,” said Toad,
“let us eat one very last cookie, and then we will stop.”
Frog and Toad ate one very last cookie.
“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.
“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie,
“We need will power.”
“What is will power?” asked Toad.
“Will power is trying hard not to do something that you really want to do,” said Frog.
“You mean like trying not to eat all of these cookies?” asked Toad.
“Right,” said Frog.
Frog put the cookies in a box.
“There,” he said.
“Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true.” said Frog.
Frog tied some string around the box.
“There,” he said.
“Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf.
“There,” said Frog.
“Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
Frog climbed the ladder and took the box down from the shelf. He cut the string and opened the box. Frog took the box outside. He shouted in a loud voice,
“HEY BIRDS. HERE ARE COOKIES!’
Birds came from everywhere. They picked up all the cookies in their beaks and flew away.
“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly.
“Not even one.”
“Yes,” said Frog.
“But we have lots and lots of will power.”
“You may keep it all, Frog,” said Toad.
“I am going home now to bake a cake”
愚公移山
there were two high mountains between jizhou in the south and heyang in the north. one was called taihang mountain and the other wangwu mountain. both of the mountains were very high.
just to the north of the mountains lived an old man called yu gong who was nearly 90 years old. with the two high mountains just in front of his house, his family and he had to walk a long way around the mountains whenever they had something to do on the other side of the mountains.
one day, yu gong called all his family together to talk about how to move the two mountains to other places. his wife said, "an old man like you cannot even move a small hill, not to mention the two high mountains. even if you can, where can you throw so much earth and stone?"
"the bohai sea is big enough to contain all the earth and stone," yu gong said.
so it was decided. his children started to dig the mountains, led by the old man yu gong.
a man named zhi sou saw them working and tried to stop them, saying, "you are so silly! you're so old and weak that you can't even take away the grass and trees. how can you move the high mountains?"
"you're wrong," yu gong said with a sigh. "look, my sons can continue my work after my death. when my sons die, my grandchildren will continue. so generations after generations, there's no end. but the mountains can't grow higher. do you still say i can’t move them away?"
later the heaven god, upon learning of yu gong’s story, was greatly moved. he then ordered another god to come down and take the two high mountains away.
the story tells us that so long as one is determined and sticks to it long enough, anything can be done, no matter how difficult it is。 还要的话 我再给你弄
