In the garden, in a small scottish town, there lived two flowers, rose and blue-belle. rose was very beautiful but silly (9) (boast/boastful). she talked about how bad it was that the other flowers were not as (10) (lucky/unlucky) as she was! blue-belle was pretty too but she was clever, friendly and (11) (polite/impolite). in the morning blue-belle said hello to all the birds around her and they liked her. this hurt rose very much. she showed her (12) (like/dislike) by singing out loud, chasing away blue-belle’s friends. one day it was cold and (13) (wind/windy). rose wanted to sing but could not do it. she was (14) (happy/unhappy). she felt sad and (15) (helpful/helpless) blue-belle asked her friends to bring rose some water. all the animals came to help her and rose began to cry. “can we be … best friends for ever? ” asked rose. “of course? ” answered blue-belle. … and to this day they are still the best friends.
9) boastful
10) lucky
11) polite
12) dislike
13) windy
14) unhappy
15) helpless