tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – LEV TOLSTOY- SHORT STORY 27

LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY 27 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY Three Questions It once occurred to a certain king that if he always knew the right time to begin everything if he knew who were the right people to listen to and whom to avoid and above all if he always knew what was the most important thing to do he would never fail in anything he might undertake. And this thought having occurred to him he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what was the right time for every action and who were the most necessary people and how he might know what was the most important thing to do. And learned men came to the King but they all answered his questions differently. In reply to the first question some said that to know the right time for every action one must draw up in advance a table of days months and years and must live strictly according to it. Only thus said they could everything be done at its proper time. Others declared that it was impossible to decide beforehand the right time for every action but that not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes one should always attend to all that was going on and then do what was most needful. Others again said that however attentive the King might be to what was going on it was impossible for one man to decide correctly the right time for every action but that he should have a Council of wise men who would help him to fix the proper time for everything. But then again others said there were some things which could not wait to be laid before a Council but about which one had at once to decide whether to undertake them or not. But in order to decide that one must know beforehand what was going to happen. It is only magicians who know that and therefore in order to know the right time for every action one must consult magicians. Equally various were the answers to the second question. Some said the people the King most needed were his councillors others the priests others the doctors while .