Harris was a very small hare(野兔) with very big feet. "Why do I have such big feet, Grandpa?" Harris asked. "All hares have big feet, Harris. I will show you 1 ," said Grandpa.
Grandpa hopped(单脚跳) 2 into the air. Harris copied(模仿) it. He kept practicing over and over again until he could hop as high 3 Grandpa. Then Grandpa took Harris up to the 4 of the mountains. He told Harris, "With your big feet, you can hop to the top of your world."
Grandpa taught Harris lots of life 5 . For example, he taught Harris how to 6 a cool resting place in the earth when the days were hot. One summer afternoon, they stopped to 7 the grass. Harris shouted happily, "Look, Grandpa! My feet can 8 me away from the hot sun! I'm so 9 to have such big feet." As time went by, he got to know the10 of his feet.
One day Grandpa noticed a wolf looking closely at them from a distance (从远处). He kept cool and spoke 11 to Harris, "The most important thing about your big feet is they can 12 you to run very fast." Harris began to run and didn't stop 13 he heard the howl (嚎叫) of the wolf. "Grandpa, why aren't you running with me?" Harris ran back and 14 sadly.
"Little Harris, I'm growing old. It's time for you to learn to live in 15 own world."
Harris kept Grandpa's words in mind and he believed his big feet would take him to the end of the world.
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This story happened in a small mountain village. One day a very big rock fell down from a nearby mountain and 1 in the middle of the road. Many people came to the road and talked about the 2 rock. Some of the 3 men tried to move it away but failed (失败). They tried to move it with ropes but it still didn't 4 .
There was 5 they could do about it. They had to change the road. At that time, a boy of 12 said, "I think I can help move the rock." "You?" they shouted. "What are you talking about?" The men all 6 the boy.
The next morning some people came into the road. "The rock has 7 !" one of them shouted. More people ran out to see. It was 8 . The rock wasn't in the road anymore. It wasn't 9 near the road. The boy stood in the road smiling. "I told you I 10 move it last night. Now you can't see it, can you?" he said.
The people all looked 11 . "You see," the boy said, "I dug a deep hole next to the rock and I dug a small incline (斜坡) up to the 12 . So the rock ran down into the hole by itself. And then I covered it 13 earth (泥土)." People shouted, "What a 14 boy!" And some of them said, "15 haven't we thought of this good idea?"