Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived in a short and wet room last year. Now their daughter was born, the room was too narrow for them to live in. Last Friday, after the factory paid out wages（工资）, Mr. Brown had to borrow some money from his friends and bought an old house. It's a little bigger and drier than the old one. But the walls were very dirty. Mrs. Brown told her husband to paint them.
    It was Saturday. Mr. Brown didn't go to work. He came in a paint shop and bought two cans（罐） of paint. It was made in(由┅生产) Japan. He looked at the directions(说明书) for a long time, but he couldn’t understand it at all. Before leaving the shop, he had to ask the shopkeeper, “Can I put this paint on myself, sir?”
    It seemed the shopkeeper didn’t understand him. He looked at Mr. Brown up and down and then he said,” You'd better put it on the wall, sir. It would look better, I think.”
____ Mr. Brown works in a _______________.
____ There are _____________ people in Mr. Brown's family now.
____ The house they bought was a little bigger and drier, but the walls were very _______.
____ Mr. Brown bought two cans of paint, but he didn't _______________ the directions.
____ The two cans of paint are made in _______________.
____ The shopkeeper thought Mr. Brown would paint not on the walls, but on his _______.

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    有两个孩子：一个喜欢弹琴，想当音乐家；一个爱好（hǎo  hào）绘画，想当美术家。

    然而不幸得很！想当音乐家的孩子，突然耳朵聋了；想当美术家的孩子，突然眼睛瞎了。两个孩子非常伤心，痛哭流涕（tì  dì），埋（mái  mán）怨命运对他们太不公平。

    恰巧，有位老人打他们身边经过，听见了他们的怨恨。老人走上前去，先对耳聋的孩子比划着说：“你的耳朵虽然坏了，但眼睛还是亮的，为什么不改学绘画呢？”接着，他对眼睛瞎的孩子说，“你的眼睛尽管坏了，但耳朵还是灵敏的，为什么不改学弹琴呢？”

    两个孩子听了，心里一亮。他们擦干眼泪，开始新的追求。

    说也奇怪，改学绘画的孩子渐渐地感到耳聋反而更好。因为他可以避免一切喧嚣的干扰，使精力高度专注。改学弹琴的孩子，慢慢地也觉得失明反倒（dào  dǎo）有利。因为他能够免除许多无谓的烦恼，使心思无比集中。

    果然，耳聋的孩子后来成了美术家，名扬四海；眼瞎的孩子后来成了音乐家，饮誉天下。

    一天，美术家和音乐家又遇见了那位老人，他俩非常激动，拉住老人连连道谢。

    老人笑着说：“不用谢，事实证明：只要努力，当命运堵塞了一条道路的时候，它，常常还留下另一道路的！”

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