四、信息还原。
新素养 价值导向 In a town, every year a lumberjack(伐木工) competition was held. The rule for the competition was simple: who ever cut the most trees at the end of the day would be the winner. This year there were only two people in the final.
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The young man was full of excitement and as the final competition started, he went off into the woods and set to work straight away. The older lumberjack went to the opposite side of the woods and started his work calmly.
During the competition, the younger lumberjack could hear the sound from the other side of the forest where the older lumberjack was cutting trees.
2 The young man noticed that once in a while, the sound of trees falling would stop from the older man's side.
The younger man guessed from this that the older lumberjack was taking a rest once in a while to get his stamina back. The younger man took it as an opportunity and took even that time to cut more trees without taking any rest.
______ 3 He felt happy that he would win as he didn't take a rest like the older lumberjack and continued to cut trees down from the beginning of the competition till the end.
At the medal ceremony, the younger man stood there confidently that he would be given the prize of being the first of the competition. Next to him was the older man who was looking much less tired than the younger man.
4 He heard that the older man won the competition. The younger man turned to the older lumberjack and said, "How can this be even possible? After every hour you would stop cutting trees and take a rest while I was still cutting trees even at that time and yet you win..."
The older man turned to him and replied, "
5 But it was not just for a rest. I also took that time to sharpen my tools."
