NICKI'S SHOES, end bold, Nicki found her old shoes. "Mom," she called, "I found my old high tops under the bed. I want to wear them to school." "Those old things?" said her mother. "Do they still fit?" Nicki looked at the shoes. They were dirty with old mud and pen marks. She and Rasha wrote all over them last year. Both shoes had big holes near the toe. The shoelaces were broken. Nicki smiled. She loved her high tops. "Sure they fit!" said Nicki. She pushed one foot into its shoe. Ouch! That was tight! She tried to put on the other shoe. She made the shoelace very loose, but her foot was stuck. Her heel would not go in. "Mom," she wailed. "Something is wrong!" Why did Nicki say "Sure they fit!"? Answer options with 4 options
1. She wanted them to fit.
2. She tried them on and they fit.
3. She liked wearing tight shoes.
4. She could see they were the right size.

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Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt