Long long ago, a circle missed one piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its
piece. But because it was
and therefore could roll only very slowly, it
the flowers along the way. It
with the worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but
of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and
searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted
. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll.
it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast,
fast to notice the flowers or talk to the worms. After it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it
, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.
The
of the story, I suggest, is that in some strange
we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has
is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it
like to nourish his soul with the dream of something
. When we accept that
is part of being human and when we can continue rolling
life and appreciate it, we will have
a wholeness that others can only desire, which , I believe, is _
God asks of us — not “Be perfect”, not “Don’t even make a mistake”,
“Be whole”.
| 小题1: | | A．other | B．missing | C．rest | D．remaining |
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| 小题2: | | A．incomplete | B．ugly | C．ordinary | D．unusual |
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| 小题3: | | A．picked | B．watered | C．admired | D．planted |
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| 小题4: | | A．played | B．chatted | C．sang | D．danced |
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| 小题5: | | A．neither | B．each | C．all | D．none |
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| 小题6: | | A．carried out | B．put on | C．worked out | D．kept on |
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| 小题7: | | A．especially | B．permanently | C．perfectly | D．constantly |
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| 小题8: | | A．Although | B．Now that | C．Unless | D．As long as |
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| 小题10: | | A．stopped | B．continued | C．hesitated | D．cried |
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| 小题11: | | A．lesson | B．root | C．reason | D．cause |
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| 小题12: | | A．degree | B．level | C．sense | D．manner |
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| 小题13: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．little | D．everything |
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| 小题14: | | A．smells | B．feels | C．looks | D．sounds |
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| 小题15: | | A．better | B．common | C．impractical | D．worse |
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| 小题16: | | A．strength | B．kindness | C．imperfection | D．benefit |
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| 小题17: | | A．behind | B．at | C．of | D．through |
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| 小题18: | | A．recognized | B．searched | C．achieved | D．founded |
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| 小题20: | | A．but | B．while | C．and | D．otherwise |
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