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A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into __1__ about stress in work and life. Offering his __2__ coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and __3__ with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups — porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal — telling them to __4__ themselves to the coffee.
When all had a cup of coffee in __5__， the professor said, “If you have __6__， you could find all the nice－looking expensive cups have been taken up, __7__ the plain and __8__ ones. __9__ it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the __10__ of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup itself adds no __11__ to the coffee. In most __12__ it is just more expensive and in some cases even __13__ what we __14__.”
“What all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, but you __15__ went for the best cups ... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.”
“Now consider this: __16__ is the coffee; the jobs, money and social position are the cups. They are just __17__ to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor __18__ the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we __19__ to enjoy the coffee.
