阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Once a group of (high) successful engineers got together to
visit their old university professor, Conversation soon turned into complaints
about stress in work and life. While they were (talk), the professor went and prepared coffee
in the kitchen. Then back with a pot of coffee and cups different kinds, some ordinary-looking, some
expensive, some delicate, the professor told them to help (they) to hot coffee. When they all had
a cup of coffee in their hands, he said, "If you noticed, all the
nice-looking expensive cups (take)up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap-looking ones. While it's normal for you to
choose the best for yourselves, that's the source of your problems and stress.
In (real), the cup itself
adds no quality to the coffee. What mattered most was coffee, not the cup, you went for the best cups directly and (bad) still, you began eyeing each other's
cups. If life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the
cups. They're just tools hold and contain life, but the quality of life
doesn't change. Sometimes by (concentrate) only on the cup, we fail to
enjoy the coffee in it."
Don't let the cups drive you, and enjoy the
coffee instead.
答案:【1】highly【2】talking【3】of【4】themselves【5】were taken/had been taken【6】reality【7】but【8】worse【9】that/which【10】concentrating