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Henry was a boy of nine. He was born in a ____ family. His father was often ill and couldn’t go to work. ____ his mother worked in a factory. She worked hard and hoped to give her four children and husband(丈夫) ____ food and clothes. But she failed. Her family were sometimes ____. Of course, she couldn’t send Henry to school. She was ____ it but she didn’t know what to do. The boy was very clever and taught himself to read and write and ____ at home in the evening. And in the daytime he was polishing(擦)shoes in the street, so he could make some ____ for his family.
One afternoon the boy saw a young man’s shoes were ____, so he said to him, “ Let me polish your shoes.”
“No, thank you,” the young man said and walked ____.
“You may pay me only one dollar, sir,” the boy shouted ___ him. But the young man said no again. Then the boy ____ for a while and told him that he would polish his shoes for nothing. The young man ____ to this, and soon one of his shoes was shining brightly. The man ____ the other shoe to the boy, but the boy said no to polish it if he wasn’t paid two dollars for his work. The young man refused(拒绝)to ____ anything on it and went away.
But his shoes were so different that he had to ____. He turned back and gave the boy two dollars. In a very short time the shoe was as bright as the other one.
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