Many of us who think we are poor ______31______ ,if we could only see them, in possibilities all about us, in faculties worth more than diamond bracelets .In our large Eastern cities it has been found that at least ninety-four out of every hundred found their first fortune at home, or near at hand, and in meeting common everyday wants .It is a sorry day for a young man ______32______ ,but thinks he can do better somewhere else. Some Brazilian shepherds organized a party ______33______ and took along a handful of translucent pebbles to play checkers with on the voyage. After arriving in San Francisco, and after they had thrown most of the pebbles away, ______34______ .They hastened back to Brazil, only to find that the mines from which the pebbles had been gathered had been taken up by other prospectors and sold to the government.The richest gold and silver mine in Nevada was sold by the owner for $42,to get money to pay his passage to other mines, where he thought he could get rich. Professor Agassiz once told the Harvard students of a farmer ______35______ ,and concluded to sell out and get into a more profitable business. He decided to go into the coal-oil business; ______36______ and coal-oil deposits, and experimented for a long time. He sold his farm for $200,and engaged in his new business two hundred miles away. Only a short time after ,the man who bought his farm discovered upon it a great flood of coal-oil, which the farmer had previously ignorantly tried to drain off.Hundreds of years ago there lived near the shore of the river Indus a Persian by the name of Ali Hafed. He lived in a cottage on the river bank, ______37______ stretching away to the sea. He had a wife and children, an extensive farm, fields of grain, gardens of flowers, orchards of fruit, and miles of forest. He had plenty of money and everything that heart could wish. He was contented and happy. One evening a priest of Buddha visited him ,and ,sitting before the fire, ______38______ ,and how the first beams of sunlight condensed on the earth's surface into diamonds. The old priest told that a drop of sunlight the size of his thumb was worth more than large mines of copper, silver, or gold; ______39______ ;that with a handful he could buy a province, and with a mine of diamonds he could purchase a kingdom. Ali Hafed listened, and was no longer a rich man. He had been touched with discontent, and with that ,all wealth vanishes. Early the next morning he woke the priest who had been the cause of his unhappiness, and anxiously asked him where he could find a mine of diamonds. “What do you want of diamonds? ”asked the astonished priest. “I want to be rich and place my children on thrones. ”“All you have to do is to go and search until you find them," said the priest.“ But where shall I go?” asked the poor farmer.______40______“How shall I know when I have found the place?” “When you find a river running over white sands between high mountain ranges ,in those white sands you will find diamonds.” answered the priest.(From Opportunities Where You Are)A. from which he could get a grand view of the beautiful countryB. “Go anywhere , north, south, east, or west.”C. are rich in opportunitiesD.to go to Europe for coal-oil deposits.E.to go to California to dig goldF. who owned a farm of hundreds of acres of unprofitable woods and rocksG. explained to him how the world was madeH. who can not see any opportunities where he isI. he studied coal measuresJ. that with one of them he could buy many farms like hisK. they discovered that they were diamondsL.in order to find a mine of diamonds

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