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Have you ever listened to young children talking on the playground? They are always boasting（自夸）. They say things like, “My dad’s car is bigger ___ 小题1: __ your dad’s,” and “My mom is smarter than yours.”
There were three little boys, Harry, Ted and Gavin, __ 小题2: ___ were always boasting. Gavin was the worst. Everything about his family was always the best. ___ 小题3: ___ the others said, he could always go on better. One day ___ 小题4: __ they were walking to school, Harry said, “My father had a bath twice ___ 小题5: __ week,” Ted spoke next. “That’s nothing,” he said. “That is dirty. My father has a bath every day, sometimes twice.” Ted looked at Gavin. Now it was __ 小题6: ___ turn. But this time Ted thought, “I’m going to win.” Gavin didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t say that his father had a bath three times a day. That was silly. He walked on ___ 小题7: ___ silence. Both Ted __ 小题8: __ Harry smiled. They were sure that for once they ___ 小题9: ___ (beat) Gavin. They reached the school gates. Still Gavin said nothing. “We’ve won,” Ted said to Harry, but he spoke too soon. On the way home, Gavin said, “My Dad is ___ 小题10: __ clean that he doesn’t have to bathe at all.”