With a hat by his feet, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said, “I’m blind, please help.”
Only a few people put
1 in the hat. A man was walking by. He
2 some coins into the hat. He then turned the sign
3 , wrote some words, put the sign back and left.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people
4 to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see
5 things were. The boy recognized his footsteps （认出他的脚步声）and asked, “Were you the one who
6 my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a
7 way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day,
8 I cannot see it.”
Both the
9 told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply
10 people to help by throwing some money into the
11 . The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the
12 of the day, but the boy couldn’t
13 he was blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn
14 this story. First, be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can.
15 , be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way!
