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The 1 picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his 2 who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously 3of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the 4on the table. His two guests heard several drawers opening and a rustling （飒飒响声）.
They 5sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the 6came, right there in the living-room. Something was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked 7her shoulder at once, startled （吓一跳）,8 It was 9. Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the 10 floor and blurted out(脱口而出), “It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!”
The father started to say something. Then he muttered(嘀咕), “Sorry, I 11 it and it fell.”
“It doesn't matter,” the host said.
Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your 12 in the windowpane(窗玻璃). You were sitting perfectly 13Why did you say…?”
The father 14 “What then would you 15as the cause of its fall?”
“It fell by itself! Maybe the floor is uneven. It wasn't steady when Mr. Li put it there.”
“It won't 16 girl. It sounds more 17 when I say I touched it. There are things people accept less the more you18 them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”
The daughter was 19in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you explain it only this way?”
“Only this way,” the father laughed again. “Since life is not perfect, sometimes we need to deal with it with a white 20”
