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Once our friend John was walking down the beach at sunset, when he saw another man in the distance. Our friend noticed the man lean down, pick something up and throw it into the water. In a few minutes the man leaned down again, picked something up and threw it again into the ocean. As John came nearer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and then throwing them back into the water. John came up to the man and said, "Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing." "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they will die up here." "I understand," John answered, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. Can't you see that you can't make a difference?" The other man smiled, picked up another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he said, "Made a difference to that one!" Dictation 6 Little Rose Two months before Christmas our nine-year –old daughter Rose told us that she wanted a bicycle. As Christmas got nearer she seemed to forget about her wish. And we bought her a beautiful doll. Then, much to our surprise, on December 23d, Rose said that she really wanted a bike more than anything else. It was just too late with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last-minute gifts, to take the time to choose the "right bike" for our little girl. So, here we were – Christmas Eve around 9 o'clock p.m., with Rose sleeping happily in her beds. We could now think only of the bicycle, we felt that we were bad parents. "What if I make a little bicycle out of wood and write a note that she could exchange it for a real bike?" her dad asked. His idea was that as she was "such a big girl", it should be much better for her to pick it out herself. So he spent the next several hours at night working with a piece of wood to create a very small model bike. On Christmas morning Rose opened the little yellow box with the beautiful red and white bike and the note in it. She read the note aloud. "Does it mean that I must exchange this little bike that Daddy made for me for a real one?" she asked. "Yes," I answered. Rose had tears in her eyes when she said, "I will never exchange this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made for me. I'd rather keep this than get a real bike." We were rather surprised but at that moment we could move heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on the planet.
Dictation 7 A Bedtime Story (An Old Japanese Legend) Many of the Japanese legends fall into the category of morality tales. They often praise some things and criticize others. When these tales come into another culture they often take on some ironic or unbelievable aspect. American and European children who do not know
much of the Japanese culture react to these tales with astonishment and disbelief. "A Bedtime Story" is one of these "unbelievable" tales. Once upon a time, an old Japanese legend goes as told by Papa, an old woman travelled through many small villages. She was looking for some place where she could spend the night. Each door opened a little in answer to her knock, then closed. She was not able to walk any further. With a lot of difficulty she climbed a hill, found a clearing and there lay down to rest a few moments to catch her breath. The village town below lay asleep except for a few starlike lights. Suddenly the clouds opened and a full moon came into view over the town. The old woman sat up, turned toward the village town and called out: "Thank you people of the village. You have been kind to me in refusing me a bed for the night. Now I can see this wonderful sight." Papa paused. I waited. In the comfort of our home in Seattle overlooking the valley, I shouted: "That's the end?" Dictation 8 The Dinner Party It all happened in India. At a large dinner party the guests were discussing a typical behaviour of people when they were in some crisis. One of the guests, an officer, said: "A woman's reaction will differ from a man's behaviour. A typical woman's reaction in any crisis is to scream. A man has much more nerve control. And that is what counts." One of the guests, an American naturalist, did not join in the argument. He watched the other guests. Suddenly he saw that the hostess changed in the face and whispered something to a servant. The servant came back very soon and placed a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors. The American naturalist understood everything. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing. It is a bait for a snake. He realized that there must be a cobra under the table. The American's first impulse was to jump back and warn the others. But he knew that would frighten the cobra and it would attack somebody. He then spoke quickly but loudly: "I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will count three hundred – that's five minutes – and not one of you must move. Those who move will pay fifty rupees. Ready? Go!" The twenty people sat like stone images while he was counting. When he was saying "two hundred and eighty", out of the corner of his eye, he saw the cobra crawling for the bowl of milk. In a minute it was on the veranda. The American made a huge jump and shut the glass doors. The guests began screaming, when they understood what had just happened. After a few moments the host said: "You were right, Officer. A man has just shown us an example of perfect control." "Just a minute," cried the American, turning to his hostess. "Mrs White, how did you know that there was a cobra in the room?" A little smile appeared on the woman's face as she answered: "I knew it because it was crawling across my foot."
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