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