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Once，there was a young painter who was good at painting birds. His paintings sold____and he was famous all over his country.
The emperor loved collecting(收藏)paintings，especially roosters(公鸡). ____he asked the famous painter to paint a rooster for him. He wanted the rooster to be the best of all his collections.
The painter____to do so. The emperor waited and waited for one year, but did not get the painting. He became ____and asked the painter to come to see him.
The painter came. He walked into the palace____paper, paints and a brush. In five minutes，a perfect(完美的)picture of a rooster____on the paper. Seeing this，the emperor was all the more angry.“If you can paint a picture of a rooster in five minutes，____did you keep me waiting for a year?”he said.
“I'll let you know why，Your Majesty ”said the painter. “Could you please come with me?”
He____the emperor to his own study(书房). There，paper almost filled the ____. On each paper was a painting of a rooster.
“Your Majesty, ”explained the painter. “It took____one year to improve my skill in order to paint a perfect rooster for you. ”
