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    1. Scrooge is a cold, unfriendly miser who believes Christmas is just another day for work. He rejects his nephew's invitation to Christmas dinner and dismisses two gentlemen seeking charity for the poor. 2. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. Marley warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits over the next three nights to try and save him from Marley's fate of being consumed with business and not people while alive. 3. Scrooge sees the chained Marley and other spirits crying outside his window about their inability to connect with others before going to sleep, worried about the three

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    1. Scrooge is a cold, unfriendly miser who believes Christmas is just another day for work. He rejects his nephew's invitation to Christmas dinner and dismisses two gentlemen seeking charity for the poor. 2. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. Marley warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits over the next three nights to try and save him from Marley's fate of being consumed with business and not people while alive. 3. Scrooge sees the chained Marley and other spirits crying outside his window about their inability to connect with others before going to sleep, worried about the three

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    1. Scrooge is a cold, unfriendly miser who believes Christmas is just another day for work. He rejects his nephew's invitation to Christmas dinner and dismisses two gentlemen seeking charity for the poor. 2. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. Marley warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits over the next three nights to try and save him from Marley's fate of being consumed with business and not people while alive. 3. Scrooge sees the chained Marley and other spirits crying outside his window about their inability to connect with others before going to sleep, worried about the three

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    1. Scrooge is a cold, unfriendly miser who believes Christmas is just another day for work. He rejects his nephew's invitation to Christmas dinner and dismisses two gentlemen seeking charity for the poor. 2. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. Marley warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits over the next three nights to try and save him from Marley's fate of being consumed with business and not people while alive. 3. Scrooge sees the chained Marley and other spirits crying outside his window about their inability to connect with others before going to sleep, worried about the three

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    Stave 1: Marleys Ghost

    Jacob Marley, the business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, died seven years
    ago. On a dingy Christmas Eve, Scrooge, a cold, unfriendly miser, works in his
    counting-house while keeping an eye on his clerk, a small man named Bob
    Cratchit. Scrooge's nephew wishes Scrooge a merry Christmas, but Scrooge
    answers him with a disdainful "Bah! Humbug!" He believes Christmas is the
    same as any day of the year, a day in which one must still pay bills. His
    nephew, Fred, thinks of Christmas as a "kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant
    time." He invites Scrooge to dine with him tomorrow, but his uncle rejects
    the offer.

    Two portly gentlemen enter and ask Scrooge for charity for the poor. Scrooge
    believes that prisons and workhouses are sufficient, and he dismisses them.
    Outside, it gets colder. A Christmas caroler tries to sing at Scrooge's door, but
    the old man scares him away. Scrooge closes up the counting-house and tells
    Cratchit he expects him to work on Christmas day. Cratchit goes home.

    Scrooge goes through his dreary routine of dinner in a tavern, and then goes
    to his gloomy home. Scrooge sees the dead Marley's face in the knocker of
    his door until it turns back into a knocker. It gives Scrooge pause, but he
    resolves not to be frightened. He thinks he sees a locomotive hearse going up
    the stairs before him. He walks through his rooms to make sure no one is
    there. After, he warms himself by a small fire. A bell in the room starts to
    ring, and soon all the other bells in the house do. After some time, the bells
    stop, and Scrooge hears the cellar-door open.

    Marley's ghost transparent and bound in a long chain made of cash-boxes,


    keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses enters the room. Scrooge
    claims he does not believe the ghost exists, but soon he admits he does.
    Marley says his spirit has been wandering since he died as punishment for
    being consumed with business and not with people while alive. He has come
    to warn Scrooge and perhaps save him from the same fate. He tells him
    Three Spirits will come to him over the next three nights. Marley makes
    incoherent, sorrowful sounds, then leaves. Scrooge looks out the window
    and sees the sky filled with other chained spirits, some familiar to him, who
    cry about their inability to connect with others. He goes to sleep.

    Reading Comprehension
    Part 1
    1.CELEBRATIONS
    1.1.

    Do you invite the family or also some friends?


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    1.2.

    What do you eat in Christmas?


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    1.3.

    Does Scrooge have any friends?


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    1.4.

    Does he have a family?


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    2.GHOSTS
    2.1.

    Marley thinks that some people walk the streets of the world when they
    are dead. Why does he think they must do that?
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    2.2.

    Do you think there are ghosts around us?


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    2.3.

    Why is Marley so sad?


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