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"This Friday we'll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge," said our science teacher,Mr Baker. "You
can work alone or with a partner. "
My friend,Cassie,and I smiled at each other. We always worked on projects  1  .
The  2  of the challenge was simple-to build a protective container to keep an egg from breaking
when  3  the stadium wall.
I made my sandwich that afternoon while waiting for Cassie.  4  the butter-cream gave me an
idea.
"1 have a brilliant design for our  5  container!"I said when Cassie arrived.  "We can  6  the
egg with some butter-cream. "
"Why not pit the egg in a basket with a parachute(降落伞)  7  ," Cassie rolled her eyes.  "The
parachute is better than that stupid idea. "
I couldn't believe it. Of course we'd had our little  8  in the past,but she'd never called any of my
ideas "  9  " before.
"Then I'll build mine and you build yours ! "
  10  words had been out,our friendship was challenged.
When Friday finally arrived,I had to  11  Cassie's Egg Force One looked pretty good.  12  ,
my Egg-cellent Egg Cream didn't look quite scientific. We kids carried our containers up three stadium
steps and dropped them over the side wall. Those whose eggs broke were out;those whose eggs survived  13  three more steps and dropped them again. This would go on till the last egg broke.
After four rounds,only Cassie and I were  14  . I let go of my box. I heard someone say "ew" after
seconds.Had my egg broken? I raced down the   15  . The side walk was dotted with egg shells(蛋壳)
from those  16  drops. Finally I found my little Egg-cellent Egg Cream.
"That looks like egg drop soup,Laura," Cassie said. She was holding her Egg Force One. My  17 
raced.Had she won? I looked at her basket.  18  .
"My egg bounced  19  ,"she explained,pointing to a broken shell.
" A  tie (平局 ) , " Mr  Baker said.
Cassie looked at me,and her glare  20  .  I laughed.  She smiled…

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