Sand and Stone
The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had __1___ argument, and one friend slapped the other one__2__ the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without __3___ (say) anything, wrote in the sand: \"Today my best friend slapped me in the face.\" They kept on walking until they found an oasis(绿洲),where they decided___4___ ( take) a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire(泥潭) and started drowning, ___5__ the friend saved him.
After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: \"Today my best friend saved _6_ life.\"
The friend __7__ had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, \"After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why?\"
The other friend___8__ (reply): \"When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone __9___(do) something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where __10__ wind can ever erase it.\"
Keys: 1.an 2.in 3.saying 4.to take 5.but
6.my 7.who 8.replied 9.does 10.no
