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James's New Bicycle
James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully__1__the coins that lay on the bed,$24.52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was al least $90! ____2____on earth was hegoing to get the ___3___of the money?
He knew that his fnriends all had bicycles. It was ___4____ to hangaround with people when you were the only one without wheels. Hethought about what he could do. There was no ____5____ asking hisparents,for he knew they had no money to ___6____
There was only one way to get money ,and that was to____7____ it.He would have to find a job. ___8____who would hire him and whatcould he do? He decided to ask Mr Clay for advice ,who usually had____9___on most things.
"Well,you can start right here, "said Mr Clay."My windowsneed cleaning and my car needs washing."
That was the ___10__ of James' odd-job (零工)business. Forthree months he worked every day after
finishing bis homework. He was amazed by the ___11____of jobs that people found for him to do.He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books.He lost count of the ___12____of cars he washed andwindows he cleaned,but the ___13___increased and he knew that hewould soon
have ___14___for the bicycle he longed for.
The day __15__came when James counted his money andfound $94.32. He __16___no time and went down to the shop topick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode ___17___ home, lookingforward to showing his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard
___18___for the money,but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more ___19___he had bought it
with his own money.He had __20___what he thought was impossible,and that was worth even more than
the bicycle.
(     )1.A. cleaned
(     )2.A.How
(     )3.A.amount
(     )4.A. brave
(     )5.A. point
(     )6.A. split
(     )7.A. borrow
(     )8.A. Or
(     )9.A. decisions
(     )10.A. beginning
(     )11.A. similarity
(     )12.A. brand
(     )13.A. effort
(     )14.A. all
(     )15.A. finally
(     )16.A. gave
(     )17.A. patiently
(     )18.A. applying
(     )19.A. since
(     )20.A. deserved

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