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A man stopped at a flower shop to 1._____ some flowers to be 2.______ to his mother who lived 200 miles 3._______ . As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she 4._______ , "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents and a rose costs two dollars." The man smiled and said, "Come 5._______ in with me. I'll 6._______ you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were 7._______ he offered the girl a ride home. She said, "Yes please! You can take me to my mother." She directed him to a cemetery, 8.________ she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave. The man returned to the flower shop, cancelled the delivery order, 9._______ up a bouquet and 10._______ the two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
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In a survey 1._____ by a library, it was recently 2.______ that parents wish their children to read books with high moral 3._______ . Around two thousand parents were interviewed and most of them 4._______ Dickens' 'The Christmas Carol' as a must-read for children. This Christmas tale 5._______ the filthy rich but 6._______ Scrooge and the poor but contented Cratchit family offers lessons in moral duties. Another book which many parents marked out as a 7._______ read was Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The choice of this book was rather 8.________ because, this romantic novel is more likely to 9._______ teenagers, than children. Since Elizabeth's final choice of Darcy is deeply rooted in strong moral 10._______ the parents, probably thought, she offers a good example for the girl child to follow.
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