“Daddy, can I learn to play the violin?” young Sarah asked her father. She was always ____1____ things and her father was not very happy.
“You cost me a lot of money, Sarah,” he said. “First you wanted to learn horse riding, then dancing, then swimming. Now it’s the ____2____.”
“I’ll play every day,” Sarah said, “I’ll try very ____3____.”
“All right,” her father said. “This is what I’ll do. I’ll pay for you to have lessons for one and a half months. At the end of ____4____ weeks you must play something for me. If you play well, you can have ____5____ lessons. If you play badly, I will ____6____ the lessons.”
He soon found a good violin teacher and Sarah began her lessons. The teacher was very expensive, ____7____ her father kept his promise.
Quickly, the time came for Sarah to play for her father. Sarah began to play. She played very badly. She made a ____8____ noise. Her father had one of his friends with him, and the friend put his hands over his ears.
When Sarah finished, her father said, “Well done, Sarah. You can have more lessons.” Sarah ran ____9____ out of the room. Her father’s friend turned to him. “You’ve spent a lot of money, but she still plays very badly,” he said.
“Well, that’s true,” her father said, “But since she started learning the violin I’ve been able to ____10____ five apartments in this building very cheaply. In another six weeks I’ll own the whole building!”
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