六、阅读短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式(有提示词的空格不限一词，无提示词的空格限一词)
There are a large number of idioms (成语) in Chinese. Many of them come from historical (61)
(story) which try to teach us something. The idiom "give up halfway" is one of them.
Once there lived a man called Yue Yangzi in the Eastern Han dynasty. One day he saw a piece of gold on the road. He took it home without thinking twice. His wife was not happy, "A great man doesn't drink a (62)
(thief) water or accept his food. What do you think of keeping others' things for yourself?" Yue Yangzi felt sorry, so he put the gold back to where he found (63)
.
The next year, Yue Yangzi went to a faraway school (64)
(improve) himself. A year later, he came back home suddenly. His wife was quite (65)
(surprise), "Why do you return? You've only spent one year studying with scholars." "I come back (66)
I miss the family very much."
Without (67)
(say) anything, his wife took a pair of scissors, went to her loom (织布机) and said, "This cloth is made of the (68)
(good) silk of all. If I cut it, all my work will be wasted. It's the same as your study. You can learn a lot only (69)
putting your effort into it. Now, you've stopped it. Isn't it the same as cutting the cloth on the loom?"
Yue Yangzi (70)
(touch) by what his wife said. From then on, he never gave up halfway and finally became a learned man.
