Fill blank (iv).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Once upon a time, two friends were ____(i)____ through the desert. During some point of the ____(ii)____, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was ____(iii)____, but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, "Today, my best friend slapped me in the face." They kept on walking ____(iv)____ they found an oasis, where they ____(v)____ to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got ____(vi)____ in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend ____(vii)____ from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, "Today my best friend saved my life." The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and ____(viii)____, you write on a stone, why?" The other friend ____(ix)____, "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can, erase it away, but when someone does something good for us, we must ____(x)____ it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."