A blind boy sat there with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins and dropped them into the hat .He then turned the sign around and wrote something on it. He put the sign back and walked away.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you do?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth in a different way.”
What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second one told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second one told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
小题1:From the passage we know that________.
A．the boy is the man’s son.
B．the man is one of the boy’s neighbors.
C．the boy is blind and needs help.
D．the boy works for the man.小题2:On the sign what the man wrote was, “________”
A．Treasure what we have already had.
B．Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.
C．We are so lucky that we are not blind.
D．Try your best to help those who need your help.小题3:According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A．The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign.
B．The man took away all the few coins from the hat.
C．The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school.
D．Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy.小题4:The word “recognized” here in Chinese means________.
A．承认
B．接受
C．表扬
D．辨认出小题5: The best title for this story is _________.
A．Giving makes receiving!
B．Be kind and creative!
C．Be kind to the blind!
D．Do not always get, but offer!
