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Read this following text then answer the question.
Once upon a time, there was a mother duck who had 10 eggs. As she waited for the eggs to hatch, suddenly, she felt something cracking beneath her.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9.. Nine eggs hatched. The mother duck eagerly waited for the last egg to hatch. Maybe because this egg was bigger than the others, it took more time to hatch. But slowly, the egg cracked, and a duckling came out of the shell. The nine ducklings were so cute. They looked just like their mother, but the last one looked different. He had a beak that was a little too long, and the feathers were gray and scruffy. His face was quite ugly too.
But the mother duck promised herself that she would love all her children equally. Months passed by. When she taught her babies how to quack, each of the duckling did good. However, when the last one tried to quack, it came out croaky. The other nine laughed at him, making him feel sad. To make it even worse, there were two other ducks passing by their pond.
“This one looked nothing like his brothers!” one of them sneered.
“He sure is ugly!” the other one added.
They picked on the ugly duck. The mother became embarrassed of him. She made him stand not too close to the other ducklings. When the night came and everybody was asleep, the ugly duckling ran away. He waddled from one pond to another pond, one lake to another lake, looking for a warm family to live with. When he took a rest, suddenly, a woman picked him up.
“Just what we’re looking for!” She said to her husband.
The ugly duckling was happy. He thought he finally found a family. The couple then took care of him, with the hope that he could lay some eggs for them. Months passed by. The farmers grew tired of him and decided to put him back in the lake where they found him.
Seasons changed, and the ugly duckling miraculously survived the freezing winter. He felt really tired from waddling so much, so he rested himself on a lake. All of a sudden, two big hands picked him up, putting him close to his body to warm him up.
“You poor little thing.” The man said.
It turned out that the man was a farmer. This time, the ugly duckling really found a place to stay. The kind farmer took really good care of him until he grew bigger. Until one day, he decided to let the ugly duckling go to enjoy his life back in the lake again.
“Be free in the lake. Swim beautifully as you were born to do so.” said the man.
A tear rolled down the ugly duckling’s face. With a heavy heart, he swam around until he met a group of swans, he approached them shyly, and one of the swans said, “You are the most beautiful swan I have ever seen!”
“Your feathers…. They are so white and shining.” another one replied.
The ugly duckling then looked at his reflection in the water and he was very surprised. He then realized what happened. He was no longer the ugly duckling. He was a beautiful white swan.
What is the moral value of the story?
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Always help each other
Don’t be arrogant
Be a thrifty person
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