My Aunt Fannie wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. I only______to her as "My Aunt Fannie" because the name always made my father laugh and gave my mother cause to look seriously at both of us—at me for being ______ of my elder and at my father for_____my bad behavior. I enjoyed both_____so I looked for every opportunity to work the name into as many conversations as possible.
As a young woman, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty and helped Aunt Fanny make the _____ blueberry cobbler jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. She was known for her tasty jam and for never sharing the recipe with another living soul. ____my mother knew the recipe by heart, she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and ____ the secret.
One year, after I had been particularly helpful with the jam process, as a reward, Aunt Fannie gave me a quarter and then made me ____ that I would never spend it. "___ this quarter," she said, "and some day you will be rich. I __ keep my very first quarter given to me by my grandfather." It had obviously worked for her. __ I put the 1938-quarter into a small box, put it away in my dresser drawer, and waited to become rich.
I now have the blueberry cobbler jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people's eye Aunt Fannie's success owed to that___ recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither have contributed to my net worth, but I keep them as ___ to get hold of the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the ____ of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a ___ that anyone can build.
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| A.responded |
B.announced |
C.referred |
D.reacted |
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| A.disapproved |
B.tired |
C.disrespectful |
D.convinced |
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| A.agreeing |
B.encouraging |
C.praising |
D.criticizing |
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| A.expressions |
B.reactions |
C.manners |
D.emotions |
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| A.most |
B.first |
C.best |
D.least |
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| A.As long as |
B.Now that |
C.As if |
D.Even though |
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| A.find |
B.preserve |
C.observe |
D.steal |
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| A.promise |
B.recognize |
C.realize |
D.accept |
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| A.Accept |
B.Pass |
C.Keep |
D.Sell |
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| A.still |
B.thus |
C.merely |
D.even |
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| A.However |
B.Somehow |
C.Therefore |
D.Besides |
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| A.expensive |
B.secret |
C.useful |
D.valuable |
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| A.warnings |
B.fortunes |
C.possessions |
D.reminders |
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| A.value |
B.experiences |
C.memories |
D.loss |
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| A.secret |
B.fortune |
C.relationship |
D.success |
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