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When Mary Smith
was a 1, she wanted to be a teacher. 2 she liked children.
When she was
twenty, she began teaching in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she 3 a lot with the children in her class. They 4 her teaching.
One day 5 of the girls in her class said to her, "Miss
Smith, 6 does
a man's hair become grey before his beard(胡子)does?
Mary laughed and
answered, "I don't know. Helen, do you know?"
"I don't know either, Miss Smith," said
Helen. "But it happened to my father." The 7 children in the class laughed when they heard
this.
Then a boy said, "I
8 , Miss Smith! A man's hair
becomes grey 9 because
it's sixteen years10 than his beard."