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Tom was three years old. He liked to 1． TV with his parents after supper, 2． his parents never let him stay long. Mother would say, “It’s eight o’clock now. It’s 3． for you to go to bed, Tom.”

“But why don’t you go to bed, too?” Tom always asked.

“We are adults,” mother would say, “And adults go to bed late.”

One evening Tom asked his mother for an apple.

“But it’s too late,” his mother didn’t want to give him 4． to eat at bedtime. “The apples are already asleep.”

“But not all of them, Mum,” Tom 5．, “The baby apples are perhaps asleep, but their parents are awaken.