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阅读理解
An old man was fishing on the bank of a river. A child came to see
him fishing. The old man was really good at fishing and it didn't take long for
him to catch a full basket of fish. The old man saw that the child was very
cute, and he wanted to give her a whole basket of fish. But the child shook her
head. The old man was surprised and asked, "Why don't you want the
fish?"
The child replied, "I
want the fishing rod(竿)in your hands."
The old man asked, "Why
do you want the rod?"
"It doesn't take long to eat all the fish in a basket. But if I
have the fishing rod, I can go fishing by myself and I won't be afraid of not
having any more fish to eat.
I think you will certainly say that the child is very
smart. Wrong! If she doesn't know how to fish, she cannot have fish to eat,
even though she has the fishing rod. It's useless to only have a fishing rod.
Fishing skills are the most important, not the fishing rod.
Too many people think that if they have a "fishing rod"
in their life, they will no longer fear the wind and rain. They are just like
the child, who thought that if she had a fishing rod, she would have fish to
eat.
