Two men travelling through a forest together promised to help each other whatever danger threated them. They had not gone far ___小题1:___ a bear rushed at them from some bushes. One man was a good ___小题2:___(climb), and quickly climbed a nearby tree, but the other, ___小题3:____(see) that he had no chance alone against the bear, fell flat on his back and pretended to be dead.
The Bear came up to him, sniffed at him.The Bear thought the man was dead,so he went off into the wood again ___小题4:____ hurting him.When he had gone, the other traveler came down from his tree, and __小题5:____(smile) asked his companion what the Bear ___小题6:___(say) to him. "For I could see," he said, " that he put his mouth close to your ear."
"He told me to tell __小题7:____," replied the other, "that you were __小题8:____great coward(懦夫), and that in future I should not trust those ___小题9:__make fine promises, but will not stand by their friends in danger."
Don't trust fine promises __小题10:___ you are sure of the person who makes them.
