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【娄底市初中毕业学业考试试卷】 本文通过一个小故事告诉我们要在我们力所能及的时候奉献我们的一切，给别人带来快乐，同时自己也会感到幸福。赠人玫瑰，手有余香。 Helping Others is a kind of Happiness Once there was a rich man in a village, he never helped others. People in the village didn't like him. The rich man knew that, so he often said to others, ＂I will give you all my things after I die.＂ He thought everyone would be happy, but nobody believed him. The rich man didn't know why. One day he went for a walk near the lake.① Under a tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow talking. The pig said, ＂Everyone likes you, but nobody likes me. Why? After I die, I will give people all the things of my body, but you give only one thing — milk.＂ The cow said, ＂I give them milk while I'm living, but you don't give them anything before you die.② People don't believe in the future; they believe in the present. If you give while you are living, people will like you. It's quite simple.＂ ③From that moment on, the rich man did his best to help the poor. 帮助别人是一种快乐     从前，在一