Li Bai was a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. He was born 1.
in
701. He didn't like studying 2.
when
he was a child. One day, he played by a river with some other children. He noticed an old woman grinding (磨) something on a big stone. He came up to the woman and 3.
found
(find) out that it was an iron rod (鐵棒).
Li Bai was very 4.
surprised
(surprise) at what the old woman was doing. He asked, “Why did you do that?” The old woman said that she wanted to make a sewing needle (繡花針) by 5.
herself
(she). Little Li Bai couldn't understand. He said, “What? You want to grind so big a rod into a needle? It will take you so many years 6.
to reach
(reach) the goal.” “It doesn't matter. As long as I don't give up, nothing is 7.
impossible
(possible). I can certainly make a needle from the rod.”
Li Bai 8.
suddenly
(sudden) learned the importance of hard work and decided 9.
to study
(study) hard. Finally, he became one of 10.
the
greatest poets in China.