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Tutoring and Teaching Innovation for Vocational English Speaking Competition
高职英语口语大赛辅导及教学创新

住这首诗。它是由父母传给孩子的。大家都很喜欢。一千多年后，一位中国著名
戏曲作家听到了这首诗。他喜欢关于皇帝寻找圣石之旅的故事。这激励了他。他
写了一句话“骑马即胜利”。他在最早的一部戏剧中使用了这句话。后来，人们

继续使用这个短语来指瞬间的胜利或快速的成功。
02.Missing the Bigger Picture 一叶障目
Once upon a time, in ancient China, there lived a poor scholar. He dreamed of
becoming rich. He dreamed about it all day long, every day. Reading at his desk, he
imagined himself relaxing in a grand palace. Having dinner with his wife, he would

pretend there was a feast on the table, instead of one measly dish.WHACK! His
wife slapped the side of his head.“Wake up! Stop daydreaming!” she scolded him. “It’s
time to clear the dishes.”One day, the scholar was reading a book under the big willow

tree outside. His wife was weeding the vegetable garden nearby.Suddenly, he jumped
up so high that he bumped his head on the branch above him.“Wow!” he cried. “I’m
going to be rich!”His wife looked up, startled.“It says here,” he said excitedly, “there
is a leaf once used by the mantis to help him catch the cicada. The leaf is a screen. It
made the mantis invisible. The cicada never saw him coming!”“And how will that

make you rich?” his wife scoffed.“I will find this leaf. It will make me invisible
too!” cried the scholar.His wife rolled her eyes, shook her head, and went back to
gardening.From that moment on, the scholar was determined to find the leaf.“Could it

be this one?” he wondered, climbing high on a branch.“Maybe this one?” he said,
swinging through another tree.“Maybe that one?” he hoped, crawling to the highest
branch.Early one morning, he climbed up the giant willow tree in front of the house.
He carefully crawled out on a high branch.Suddenly, he spotted a mantis and a cicada
near the end of the branch.“Whoa! This must be the tree!” he whispered excitedly.

As he got closer to the mantis, a drop of dew on a leaf caught the sunlight. The
scholar examined the leaf.“That must be the one!”He stretched out his hand
and grabbed hold of the glistening leaf.“Got it!” he cried. The scholar was so excited

he almost fell off the branch.“Wife! I found it! I shall be rich!” he cried, rushing
down the tree and running toward his wife.His wife ran out of the house to see what her
husband was yelling about.“I found it, Wife! Here it is!” he said, excitedly showing

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