Whatt is the real meaning of peace? Once, a king in Britain made an offer that he 小题1:__________ （give） a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artistes tried. The king looked at all the pictures but found that only two of them were 小题2:_______(attract) to him, and he had to chooose between them. One picture had a calm lake 小题3:________ (paint) in the middle with high mountains all around it. Overhead was a buled sky with white clouds. Those who saw this picture all thought, without any different ideas, that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The 小题4:________ picture had mountains, too. Above 小题5:_________ (be) an angry sky, form which rain fell and in which lightning played. A waterfall fell quickly down the side of the mountain. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the king looked 小题6:_______(close), behind the waterfll he sww a small bush 小题7:_________ (grow) in the rock. In the bush, a bird had built a nest. There, among the rush of angry water, sat 小题8:________bird on her nest-in perfect peace.
The king was abosorbed in the second picture, chose it and explained the reason 小题9:_______ he preferred the latter, “Real peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is 小题10:_______ real peace is.
