George selected his food in Value Mart carefully.He estimated he had__1__80 cents today.He was pleased he had got good__2__for his money again.
At the exit,the freezing wind__3__him of his gloves.He was sure he was wearing them when entering the__4__.He made a search of his pockets.Then he thought they must have been__5__somewhere in the store.George had bought the black gloves for $35 ten years ago.They were leather,soft and durable.Until then,he had worn cheaper manmade material that never lasted long.His__6__to buy the gloves turned out to be good,which even__7__his position on the bus,as poorer passengers stared at him__8__.
George reentered the store.He followed the same__9__he had walked before,__10__at the bread counter,to the dairy section,to the shelf where salt and sugar were placed.It did not take long to be__11__that the gloves were not there.His__12__grew heavier.“People have changed,” he__13__.“Years ago,if somebody__14__something lost,they would give it back.”
Yet he did not give up.This time he focused on the gloves on other shoppers’
__15__.Suddenly he__16__a lady nearby wearing a black pair of gloves.He said,“Hi!” But when the surprised lady returned his__17__,his eyes dropped to the floor,for the fingers of her gloves were too small for him.
Without gloves,he had to__18__his hands into his sleeves.Back home,George was__19__.He could not do without gloves.George decided to buy another leather pair.But before that,he stepped into Value Mart again to see if by any__20__his gloves had been returned to the lost and found office.The girl looked into her drawer and took out a pair of men’s leather gloves.“Are they?”
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