There was once a man who was very rich but very tight-fisted（吝啬的）at the same time. Nobody _____ him in the village. One day he said to them,“I know you don't like me. When I____,I will give everything to you. Then everyone will be _____. ”

Even then nobody believed him. The rich man couldn't______why they didn't believe him.

One day he went for a walk. Under a tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow___.

The pig said to the cow,“ Everybody likes you ____ nobody likes me. Why？When I provide people with meat, ham（火腿）and so on, I give three or four things to them. But you give only one thing-milk. Why do people like you____and not me？”

The cow answered, “Look, I give them milk while I'm____. They see that I am generous（慷概的）with what I ___. But you don't give them anything while you're alive. Only after you're dead do you give meat, ham and so on. People don't believe in the ____,they believe in the present. If you give while you are alive, people will like you. "

From that moment on, the rich man wasn't tight-fisted any more. Everyone began to like him. And he felt quite happy.