Mr Brown was the owner of a small newspaper.He always tried

Mr Brown was the owner of a small newspaper.He always tried to (1) the public the latest news.
One day,he received a telephone call from a woman.She told him that she had just seen a big flood in a faraway village(3) the name Greenbridge,and that something had to be done to save the people there.Mr Brown wrote it all down and printed it in this newspaper that evening.He was pleased to see that no other paper had taken hold of the news.
But angry telephone calls soon showed that the woman had fooled him.so in the next day's paper he wrote,"We were the first and only newspaper to report in time that the village of Greenbridge was destroyed by a flood.Today we are again the first newspaper to (9) it clear to the public that yesterday's news was not true.
1.A.take B.ask C.bring D.keep
3.A.in B.from C.by D.with
9.A.make B.say C.tell D.give
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