29453 a story with a moral 1d

A
Fill in the missing verbs in the text to find out a fascinating story about your life. You
should change the verbs into the simple past tense in order to make sense.

pour - ask - be - stand - begin - smile - shake - fall - lose - agree

A philosophy professor 1) ………………... before his class and had some items in front of
him.
First he 2) ………………..…. filling a large glass jar with golf balls. The students 3)
………..…...…. that the jar 4) …….…...……..… full. So the professor 5) …………………...
and picked up a box of small pebbles and poured them into the jar. The pebbles, of
course,
6) ……………..….. into the small spaces. Then the professor
7) ………….…..….. a box of sand into the jar, 8) ..….………..….…. it, and the
sand completely filled the jar.
Then he explained. “The jar represents your life,’ said the professor. ‘The
balls are the important things – your family, your religion, your health; if
you
9) ……………………. everything else, your life would
still be full. The pebbles are the smaller things that matter – your job, your
house, your car. The sand represents the trivial things. If
you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for
the pebbles or the balls, just like life. Take care of the
rocks first- the things that really matter. The rest is just
sand.’
One student 10) …………..…. what the vodka
represented. The professor smiled and said:’ Look, what happens!’ then he opened the
bottles and poured out into the jar. The vodka was easily absorbed. ‘Now it’s full’, he
smiled again.
‘You know what,’ the professor continued, ‘the moral of the story is simple.
No matter how full your life is, there is always room for having some vodka with a

friend.’
B
Fill in the missing verbs in the text to find out a fascinating story about your life.

asked - stood - poured - smiled - was - lost - shook - began - fell - agreed


A philosophy professor 1) ………………... before his class and had some items in front of
him.
First he 2) ………………..…. filling a large glass jar with golf balls. The students 3)
………..…...…. that the jar 4) …….…...……..… full. So the professor 5) …………………...
and picked up a box of small pebbles and poured them into the jar. The pebbles, of
course, 6) ……………..….. into the small spaces. Then the professor
7)
………….…..….. a box of sand into the jar, 8) ..….………..….…. it, and the sand
completely filled the jar.
Then he explained. “The jar represents your life,’ said the professor. ‘The balls are the
important things – your family, your religion, your health; if you 9) ………..
………………. everything else, your life would still be full. The pebbles are
the smaller things that matter – your job, your house, your car. The sand
represents the trivial things. If you put the sand into the jar first, there is
no room for the pebbles or the balls, just like life. Take care of the rocks
first- the things that really matter. The rest is just sand.’
One student 10) ………………..…. what the vodka represented. The
professor smiled and said:’ Look, what happens!’ then he opened the bottles and
poured out into the jar. The vodka was easily absorbed. ‘Now it’s
full’, he smiled again.
‘You know what,’ the professor continued, ‘the moral of
the story is simple.
No matter how full your life is, there is always room

for having some vodka with a friend.’

Key
1.

stood
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

9.

lost

began
agreed
was
smiled
fell
poured
shook


10.

asked