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Fill in the missing verbs in the text to find out a fascinating story about your life. You should use
present tenses in order to make the story livelier and more interesting.

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

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 cups of tea represented. The professor
smiled and said:’ Look, what happens!’ then he poured the entire contents of
the cups into the jar and the tea was easily absorbed. ‘Now it’s full’, he said.

‘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 a nice
cup of tea with a friend.’