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?"
