Lesson 4 The Two Roads
The Two Brothers
Two brothers ____ on a journey.
They found a rock in front of a ____.
It said, “Go into the ____ and swim across the river.
____ you will find a bear and her cubs.
Take the bear cubs and ____ up the mountain.
____ you will find happiness.”
The younger brother said,
“Let’s go and find happiness ____.”
“No,” ____ the older brother,
“How ____ we know this is true?
What if the river is too ____?
Besides, will it be easy to take the ____ away from their mother?
Instead of ____ happiness, we can be killed!”
The younger brother replied,
“How can we know if we don’t ____?”
They separated, and they both ____ their own way.
The younger brother went into the forest and swam ____ the river.
There was the ____. She was sleeping.
He took her cubs and ran up the ____.
When he reached the top, some people took him to their city and made ____ their king.
There he ____ as a king for five years.
Then a war broke ____, and he lost his throne.
He was on the road again.
One day, the two brothers ____ again and talked about their lives for the last five years.
The older brother ____, “I was right. I have lived quietly and well.
You were once a king, but you have had a lot of ____.”
The younger brother answered, “I don’t regret my ____.
I may have nothing now, but I will ____ have something to remember.”