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This is a story about a little girl Mary. Mary was A_________ than other girls of that age and she often asked questions. One day Mary asked B_________ father how to behave in a difficult situation. Mary's father C_________ an egg, a potato and some tea leaves into three different pans full of water and put the pans on the stove. He asked Mary to keep an eye on D_________ three pans for ten minutes. When the ten minutes were over, he asked Mary to see what had happened. Mary saw that the potato was soft, the egg was hard and the tea leaves had turned water into tea. Mary's father said, "The things were in the same situation, but they behaved differently. People are just the same. Some people E_________ get hard, somebody will get soft and somebody will change the situation. What are you like?"

A 1) clever 2) cleverer 3) cleverest 4) most clever

B 1) his 2) hers 3) her 4) herself

C 1) puts 2) put 3) will put 4) has put

D 1) this 2) that 3) than 4) those

E 1) can 2) can't 3) could 4) couldn't