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You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
Winston Churchill
When I was young, my father had a small  1  . Each of the seven children in our family worked in our
father's  2  . As we worked and watched, we  3  that work was about more than survival and making a
sale.
One  4  is still existing in my mind. It was shortly before  5  . I was working evenings, straightening
the  6  section. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He looked poor to me-too poor to  7   to
buy anything. He looked around the toy section,  8  this item and that, and  9  put them back in their
place.
Dad came down the stairs and  10  over to the boy. His blue eyes smiled as he asked the boy  11  
he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas present for his brother. I was  12  
that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his time and look around.
He did.
After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy plane, walked up to my dad and said,
"How  13  for this, Mister?"
"How much you got?" Dad  14  .
The little boy held out his hand and  15  it. In his hand lay 27 cents. The  16  on the toy plane he'd
picked out was $3.98.
"That'll be  17  about to do it," Dad said as he closed the  18  . Dad's reply still rings in my ears. I
  19  about what I'd seen as I wrapped the present. When the  20  boy walked out of the store, I saw
a child with a treasure.

(     )1. A. business       (     )2. A. workshop       (     )3. A. loved       (     )4. A. fear         (     )5. A. Christmas     (     )6. A. clothing     (     )7. A. give         (     )8. A. held up   (     )9. A. carefully   (     )10. A. jumped   (     )11. A. who         (     )12. A. introduced (     )13. A. soon     (     )14. A. asked     (     )15. A. hid     (     )16. A. prize       (     )17. A. yet         (     )18. A. sale     (     )19. A. cared     (     )20. A. learned

B. car         B. store       B. signed     B. pain       B. sunset       B. toy         B. take       B. pulled up   B. eagerly     B. walked     B. when       B. raised     B. precious   B. replied     B. opened     B. cost       B. even       B. drawer       B. thought     B. happy

C. mark           C. department       C. learned         C. gift           C. New Year's Day C. book           C. afford         C. made up     C. bitterly     C. rushed     C. what           C. harmed       C. long       C. responded   C. threw     C. price         C. rather         C. door       C. went       C. little

D. behavior         D. farm             D. taught           D. lesson           D. Mother's Day D. shoe             D. bring           D. picked up       D. quickly         D. drove           D. if               D. impressed       D. much             D. imagine         D. damaged         D. package         D. just             D. income           D. looked           D. big

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